Question

French help? Can you check my answers and correct them? I am having a really difficult time :(

Answer 1

~~You need to conjugate your verbs: ils/elles - ent on verb stem.

~~son/sa/ses - depends on gender and number.
Above is what my teacher has said

1. ils ami regarder la tele le soir.

2. elles prefere voir un film a la tele.

3. ses grand-mere,elle aime voir les documentaires

4. ses parents aiment les westerns

5. ses petits freres aiment les dessins animes.

6. j'aime regarder les dessins animes a la tele?


I do not understand how to fix them, if your good at French can you help? I am terrible lol

Answer 2

Son/sa/ses means his/her/its/their, "son" is the masculine (boy), "sa" is the feminine (girl), "ses" is the plural.

Answer 3

However, whether we should use son or sa or ses depends on the object being possessed.

E.g. livre (masculine) -> son livre (his/her/its/their book)
E.g. table (feminine) -> sa table (his/her/its/their table)
E.g. livres (plural) -> ses livres (his/her/its/their books)

Answer 4

For the conjugation part, to "conjugate" means to add ending to a verb indicating the person and the number. For example, in English, if the subject is he/she/it, we need to add an "-s" after the verb (he runs). Changing a verb form from "run" to "runs" is called "conjugation a verb".

Answer 5

The present simple tense of English mostly only has two conjugations, the normal version and the version with "-s". However, the French conjugation is much more complicated. An example would be the verb "manger" (to eat):

Je mange (I eat)
Tu manges (You eat)
Il/Elle/On mange (He/she eats)
Nous mangeons (We eat)
Vous mangez (You-all eat)
Ils/Elles mangent (They eat)

Answer 6

You cannot say "je manges" in French, just as you cannot say "I runs" in English.
You cannot say "nous mangez" in French, just as you cannot say "He run" in English.

Answer 7

One thing to note is that "mange", "manges" and "mangent" have the same pronunciation.

Answer 8

As you can see, the conjugation for "ils/elles" (they) is to add "-ent" to the stem.

Answer 9

"aimer" (like) -> "ils/elles aiment" (they like)
"lire" (read) -> "ils/elles lisent" (they read)
"finir" (finish) -> "ils/elles finissent" (they finish)

Answer 10

However, you are lucky that there are no irregular verbs in your questions.

Answer 11

Back to the possessive adjectives, "his pen" is "son stylo", "her pen" is "son stylo", "their pen" is also "son stylo".

Answer 12

As you can see, whether to use "son" or "sa" or "ses" does not depend on the processor as in English, but rather on the processed object.

Answer 13

Therefore it would be incorrect to translate "her father" as "sa père".

Answer 14

"Their pen" is "leur stylo" ;-)