In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at the adjective sûr, meaning sure, certain and safe. This word can cause some confusion because it changes to the preposition sur (on, on top of) when the -u is written without the circumflex accent. sûr(e) sure, certain, safe
Today we’ll focus on a simple yet extremely useful French expression: “avoir du mal à”, which means to have difficulty/trouble or to find it hard to do something.
Level A2/B2 (Upper beginner, lower intermediate) The French word of the day is joindre (A2/B1), meaning ‘to join’. This verb can cause a lot of confusion as joindre means ‘to join together’ or ‘to reach’ while the reflexive form se joindre à means to join a person or group of people. We’ll also cover se…
Today we’ll have a look at the slang noun truc. In French, truc is slang for “thing” and can also translate to “thingumajig” or “trick” (as in magic). truc thing (slang)
In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at the French masculine noun coeur, which means “heart”. The word cœur has the œ letter (called l’e dans l’o or “the e in the o”) and can be tricky to pronounce. cœur = heart Pronunciation [k-uhr]