Bonjour Madame Aurélie !
Thanks for posting this content but I am still a school- going student so am mainly focussed on the grammatical aspects !
Here you quote a sentence - Personne ne veut embrasser quelqu’un qui a mauvaise haleine .
Here why we can’t write ‘qui a de mauvaise haleine’ as it is a negative sentence where “une” can be replaced with “de”. Or simply the other way round- quelqu’un avec de mauvaise haleine .
Which of the two would be correct ? Thanks again for devoting time to respond .
Bonne journée !
In this cool Valentine’s Day cartoon, Aurélie Drouard gets down to basics to help you avoid a catastrophe on le jour de la Saint-Valentin and along the way pick up some cool, useful (and funny) French expressions – at least one of which you won’t find in a text book!
Watch the video first and see how much you can understand. Then you can click the phrases beneath to see translations and links to useful related grammar.
Dix choses à faire – et ne pas faire – le jour de la Saint-Valentin…
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 1
Forming simple negative commands with the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
il faut vraiment le faire exprès !
you'd really have to do it on purpose!Related lessons:
Faire exprès (de) = To do something on purpose (French Expressions with faire)
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 2
Conjugate regular verbs in the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
Describing things in French with c'est = it is
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 3
Conjugate reflexive verbs in the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif) - affirmative commands
Personne ne ..., rien ne ... = No one, nothing (negation) in French
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 4
Juste au cas où... Bonjour les traces de pneu !
Just in case... Hellooo skid marks!Related lessons:
Conjugate regular verbs in the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 5
Conjugate reflexive verbs in the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif) - affirmative commands
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 6
Conjugate regular verbs in the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
Using the infinitive form of verbs to express the English "-ING"
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 7
Forming simple negative commands with the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
Personne ne ..., rien ne ... = No one, nothing (negation) in French
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 8
Se faire les yeux doux par écran interposé, si ça marchait, ça se saurait !
Making doe eyes with a screen in-between, if that worked, we would know!Related lessons:
Using the infinitive form of verbs to express the English "-ING"
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 9
À moins, bien sûr, de n'en dire que du mal... et encore !
Unless of course, you only say bad things... and still!Related lessons:
Using restrictive ne … que to express only with simple tenses (French Negations)
French Valentine’s Day Tip # 10
Forming simple negative commands with the imperative mood in French (L'Impératif)
Conjugate regular -ir verbs in the present tense in French (Le Présent)
Conjugate devoir in the conditional present in French = should (Le Conditionnel Présent)
Avoir besoin de = To need (French Expressions with avoir)
Comments: 4
Bonjour Shrey !
Here it's a question of terminology :)
A negative sentence doesn't mean a sentence with a negative meaning, but a sentence containing a negative structure, in French "ne...pas", "ne... jamais", "ne...plus" etc
So here the sentence, though meaning something bad, is not a negative sentence, hence using "une" ;)
I hope that's helpful!
Bonne journée !
The tenth tip was missed out and replaced with the outro. So please could you transate the 'ne romps pas' part :)
Bonjour Zsazsa, et merci beaucoup !
Thanks to you, the article has now been fixed, and the missing tenth tip added :)
Merci encore et bonne journée !