In French, to say about the city you live in, you use the expression "habiter à" + [city].
How to express "to live in a city" in French
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To say which city you live in in French, you can use the verb habiter (to live [somewhere]) as such:
J'habite à + [city]
Note that je (= I) becomes j' in front of the mute h of habite.
See also Je becomes j' with verbs beginning with a vowel in French (Elision)
See more complex cases in À = To/in and De = From/of with cities in French (French Prepositions of Location)
See also the more advanced lesson on how to conjugate all six forms of habiter in Le Présent:
Conjugate regular -er verbs in the present tense in French (Le Présent)
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- Verbes réguliers avec -ER
- Phrasal/Prepositional
- Élision
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