1. Je choisis l'orange parce que c'est délicieux.
2. Est-ce que tu choisis ton crayon?
3. Il choisit le plage de temps en temps.
4. Nous choisissons le pizza fromage.
5. Choisissez-vous l'université?
6. Ils choisissent les fleurs rouge pour leur copines.
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The big thing you need to know with this is how to conjugate verbs. In case you need a reminder, here they are. Don't forget that before you add the correct ending, take off the ir, er, or re at the end of each.
<u>-ir verbs:</u>
- Je: is
- Tu: is
- Il/elle/on: it
- Nous: issons
- Vous: issez
- Ils/elles: issent
<u>-er verbs:</u>
- Je: e
- Tu: es
- Il/elle/on: e
- Nous: ons
- Vous: ez
- Ils/elles: ent
<u>-re verbs:</u>
- Je: s
- Tu: s
- Il/elle/on: -
- Nous: ons
- Vous: ez
- Ils/elles: ent
All of this can be pretty tricky to remember sometimes, but here are a few tricks to remembering conjugations.
- If je verbs end with a consonant, it will always be an s
- Tu verbs always end with an s
- Nous verbs will always end in ons (the one exception is the verb être, in which the nous verb is sommes)
- Vous verbs always end in ez (except for the verb faire, in which the vous verb is faites)
- Ils/elles verbs always end with ent (except for the pillar verbs, aller, être, avoir, and faire, in which they end with ont)
Also don't forget that in French, the noun comes first, then the adjectives to describe it. That means that you will probably end up saying things like "the table big brown." This does sound pretty ridiculous in English, but that is how it works in French.
There are 3 main ways to form a question. Two of them are shown above.
- The first isn't shown, but it is the easiest. You just make a statement, like "You are choosing your pencil" and just add a question mark to the end.
- The second way is to make your statement, but add "est-ce que" to the beginning and a question mark to the end.
- The third and most important way is to invert your subject and verb, adding a hyphen between the two. That means that something like "vous choisissez" will become "choisissez-vous." The catch is, if you are asking if Marie has chosen a flower, you need to substitute a subject, in this case the subject would be elle, in place of the name in the inversion. That would cause you to have a question that looks something like this: "Marie choisit-elle sa fleur?" Now, if you wanted to ask if Marie likes her flower, you have to do something more special. If you just left your sentence like this: "Marie aime-elle sa fleur?" there would be a guttural stop between aime and elle. To solve that problem, you need to add a t inbetween to create a sentence that looks like this: "Marie aime-t-elle sa fleur?"
