Today’s lesson focuses on the faux ami (or false cognate) blessé, which means “injured” as an adjective and “injured person” as a noun. The reflexive verb se blesser means “to get injured” while bénir means “to bless”. blessé injured, injured person
French Word of the Day
Learn to speak French with a word of the day lesson 365 days a year. FrenchLearner’s teacher David Issokson covers vocabulary, street French and much more. All lessons have audio recorded by a native French speaker.
Today’s lesson focuses on how to use the common French greeting bonsoir (pronunciation bɔ̃swaʀ), which means both “good evening” and “good night”. It may be used in the context of “hi” and “bye” after about 6pm. bonsoir good evening, good night
Today we’ll focus on the term les infos, which translates to “the news” and is really a shortening of les informations (the news). Another word used for news in French is les actualités, which also means current affairs. les infos news
Today we’ll discover how to use the adjective propre in French, which can mean both “clean” and “own” depending on its placement in relation to the noun. propre clean, own
This lesson examines the masculine noun hiver, which means “winter” in French. The most important point is that the final -r must be pronounced. This is unlike ER verbs in the infinitive form where the final -er sounds like -ay as in (to speak) parler [parl-ay]. l’hiver winter
