The Preposition À In French - How And When To Use It // French Grammar Course // Lesson 14 🇫🇷
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- Using the french preposition à in French can be a little bit tricky because it will change when followed by le or les. We can find it as à - au - à la - à l' and aux.
We use the preposition à to:
- Talk about location - à Paris, au Canada, etc.
- Talk about distance, time, age, and rate: à 5 heures, à 35 ans, etc.
- Talk about manner and characteristic: Un pull fait à l'ancienne
- Talk about possession: être à quelqu'un
- Talk about food and how it is made: un thé à la vanille
- Talk about specific ways of transportation: à vélo
- Talk express pain: avoir mal à l'estomac
- With names of festivities: à Noël
- Show the purpose of something: un verre à vin
- With ways to say goodbye: à demain
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0:00 Intro
00:35 À and its variations
02:09 When to use the preposition à
07:01 Verb + à + noun
09:34 Verb + à + infinitive verb
11:14 Être + adjective + à
12:09 Le seul + à
13:02 Ordinal number + à
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Wow, my French grammar keeps on improving as I progress with this detailed course! Merci beaucoup.
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Hands down the best video clearly explaining this and 'de' in the other video. Way clearer than a very popular channel out there that just puts together a random video with no structure at all. Won't name anyone. Your videos are very well structured and very very clearly explained. thank you so much. Structure and clarity is so important when something is already so confusing. 👏
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Great lesson. Don’t worry that is was long as we can repeat it many times to learn it.
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Thank you so much for helping me understand this concept, I had been struggling with this for some time. Again, thank you as tomorrow is my exam. Merci beaucoup 😊 ❤😊
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OMG TYSM!! Tommorow is my exam of french and I'm literally recovering the base of it and this video helped me sm!! ❤️❤️
Good luck!! Let me know how it goes!
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Thank you so much! I always confused about the preposition in French, this makes me feel more clear😊
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Wow I just had a problem with choosing those after duolingo and you uploaded this video 😊 Thank you 💕
Perfect timing 🤩 How do you like Duolingo? Do you see a lot of progress?
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane I use Duolingo for basics and i daily watch yt videos in french for immersion and yeah after a month the progress is huge
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PS J'habite au Canada! 🇨🇦 😊
Merci Brenda :D
Par curiosité, où est-ce que tu habites au Canada? Peut-être qu'on est pas très loin ;)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane J'habite à Toronto. J'ai cru que tu habitais en France. Ton accent est 100% celui du français de France (parfait). Où habites-tu?
@@dinab7852 j’ai immigré à Vancouver en 2019 ;) Mon mari est canadien. Qu’est ce qu’on ne fait pas par amour 🥰 Toronto c’est une chouette ville 🤩
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane OMG! You're my soul sister! Mon mari a immigré au Canada en 2019 aussi !!!!! Si jamais un jour on se trouve dans la même ville on pourra se rencontrer! 😊
Half of it was in conjugation course (which I've completed), and I had a great revision 😇
If I could put it again in a 3rd course I would :D They are so important!
Great 👍 lesson! Is your book still available? I also wanted to know if this à preposition the only one with the accent going to the Left? Merci !!
Yes Mitchell, it's still available on Amazon and on my website :)
yes à is the only one :)
Qqn and qqch are quite interesting and new to me 🙂
Gotta fit everything in frame :D
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I have a question: Are the verbs followed by the preposition( à ) the only ones that I have to conjugate with lui, elle, leur and eux? So the others I conjugate with le, la, les.etc, right?🤔
Correct Joesph :)
Hi
I've been watching your videos lately and I find them interesting
I think this is another nice one too but I just don't know how to keep or memorise... any suggestions?
Merci
Yes! Pick the ones you use and remember them. Don't study what you don't use, you will just tire your brain out :D
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Thanks a lot
Bonjour, Dylane! I have a question... how come we would say "J'habite en Angleterre" rather than "J'habite à l'Angleterre" ? Merci :D
Georgia it's because Angleterre starts with a vowel. En Anglettere, en Allemagne - En Europe, etc :)
I don't mind it long at all. I would rather you cover the topic completely because I can always go back to watch the video many times.
I agree Martin :)
Thank you for this great video. Can I just ask however why is it "Il a fait mal à sa soeur" and not "..à la sa soeur" and in the same vein "On a envoyé une carte de Noël à nos amis" and not "..aux nos amis" ? Thank you for your assistance in advance.
When à is followed by a possessive adjective, à doesn't change. à sa, à ma, à son, etc.
Hii
Can you please explain
If we came on foot then we use (à) proposition and on car we use (en).
How is it work?? Thank you in advance!
à pied / en voiture - There is no real explanation, that's just the way it is. Just remember them by heart :)
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For once, can u explain what is it when u say, ' QQCH'?
QQCH = quelque chose = Something :)
Hey at 3:20 why are you conjugating payer with etre? The passe compose is conjugated with Avoir only.
It's the same way as in English. Here payé is not a verb but an adjective. J'ai payé = I have paid. Il est payé = He is paid
what are the rules for noun + à/de + verb/adjective, for example "c'est la responsibilité du gouvernement de financer les écoles", "il n'y a rien à dire", "il y a beaucoup de choses de mieux"? thanks :)
de and à don't change before a verb :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane okay, so how do you decide which one to use when the preposition follows a noun and precedes a verb
Hi ! is it also possible to use à for a district or suburb of a town or city you live in ? for example J'habite à Marseille but what if I want to say the specific area of the city or town I live in, can I still say J'habite à (then name of district / suburb) ? Merci d'avance !
Yes it is but it depends. J'habite à China Town - J'habite aux Marais. Depends :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane Thank you ! - Merci !
S'il vous plaît I want to know how to get your exercises?
How can I get it?
Stephanie they are in the book, the link is in the description :)
À la page 101 du livre, vous avez dit que goûter est suivi par à et veut dire “to taste”. Comment dit-on “ i taste the strawberry”? Je goûte à la fraise ou je goûte la fraise? Merci
Both are fine actually, the difference is very subtle. Without the preposition indicates something that you already tried before. With preposition, something that you are trying for the first time.
Je goûte à la fraise = 1st time
Je goûte la fraise = You tried it before and you know the taste.
I hope it helps :)
Merci beaucoup!
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Je voudrais connaître le nom de l'auteur du livre "complete French grammar course".
C’est mon nom, Dylane Moreau :)
hi difference between à, de, pour please
Je pense que c'est expliqué dans les prochaine vidéos :)
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Great! We really would like you to speak a lot in French much more than English through giving explanation and examples because we are practicing French, not English, Please just help habitualize us in French. You are one of the best! Thanks a lot!
Hi Tom. Thanks for suggesting this but all my lessons are made to be taught in English (because I only taught in English). There are a lot of French teachers who speak French on TH-cam. I am sure you can find a channel easily :)
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"Acheter à quelqu'un..."
Peut-on dire aussi "acheter pour quelqu'un"?
J'ai acheté un cadeau de Noël pour ma mère.
Ça marche?
Ça marche aussi oui :D
How to buy your book??
The links are in the description and in my pinned comment I believe :)
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Merci Mona :)
Bonjour.... Merci pour votre vidéo. J'ai une question.... Si je parle des états de la République Mexicaine... Je dois dire: j'habite à Jalisco ou J'habite au Jalisco. J'habite à Juarez ou J'habite au Juarez.
À :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane merci beaucoup =)
Can we also write une femme avec cheveux blonde, and il est venu par cheval?
In some circonstances yes, you could say Une femme avec des cheveux blonds. But only à cheval :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane thank you Dylane
Hello 🤩👋
Hello 😊
This video is so helpfull, thank you so much Miss Dylane
How can we know it is male or female
You have to know it by heart ;)
I struggle with prepositions I understand them when I read but I always forget them when talking 😅
It definitely takes time to use them naturally, but don’t give up 😉
How do i know If the country Is feminin or masculine ?
The countries ending with E are feminine besides Le Mexique :)
@@TheperfectfrenchwithDylane wow really ? Does that go with all the countries?
You say to study what you'll use but most of what I learn comes from video games. I'm worried that if I go to France I'll only be able to talk about zombie dogs, medieval knights and Lara Croft. lol
oh no 😄
It is lovely....very nicely explained but I think you should speak more of French than English
My lessons are made for English speakers but I am sure you can find a channel that teaches only in French if you prefer :)
Hello dear teacher can you please help me how can I make CV
I am really bad at that! Maybe try Fiverr :)
Ahm ok
Есть ли у вас возможность преподавать французкий на русском или Украинском языке???
No unfortunately I don't :/
Anyone else studying for finals rn😩
are you canadienne?
No my husband is. I moved to Canada in 2019 to be with him :)
Frist
Deuxième 🖐
Iam confused that a is follwed by city and also its meaning is - to/at/per etc.
I didnt understand
Oh :(