Question

Please please help with French I am in a hurry to finish this (:

The verb etre is used to say who different people are. If I am describing myself as being intelligent, how would I then talk about my friends and me being intelligent? Be sure to explain how you use the verb etre and how intelligent must be spelled i both situations.

Answer 1

i dont know french but i will try to ask someone..

Answer 2

@rvc okay thank you i need to turn this in asap

Answer 3

m trying

Answer 4

you can say ... je suis intelligante

Answer 5

Wait wouldn't you use nous or vous?

Answer 6

@mathmate
please help

Answer 7

if you want to discribe your self so you shoud use je and if you want to discribe your friends you shoud use vous

Answer 8

so you're answering this in french, correct?

Answer 9

Yes @Anaise... except the explaining part.

Answer 10

@celinegirl
We have assumed that you are answering as a female, that's correct?
In French, the speaker's gender affect's the answer.

Answer 11

More like
Nous sommes intelligents (if there is at least one male among you)
or
Nous sommes intelligentes (if nous represent all females).

Answer 12

your right mathmate
i agree with you

Answer 13

By the way, there are more French speakers at "Language and Culture" section!

Answer 14

@mathmate question out of the ordinaire, are you french by any chance?

Answer 15

and...
Je suis intelligent. (male speaking), or
Je suis intelligente. (female speaking).

Answer 16

my mom was mixed with it, I was taught to use english words and french words in the same phrase, also, that was a pretty good description from some one who isn't french

Answer 17

@mathmate can you also explain how you used the word etre?

Answer 18

@celinegirl
Get familiar with the conjugaison of verb "être"

je suis
tu es
il/elle/on est
nous sommes
vous êtes
ils sont

You will need this for the rest of your career in French.

Answer 19

@celinegirl I'm taking French ! maybe i can help

Answer 20

That's cute. Not too many people are at ease with mixing two languages in the same sentence, but why not if both persons are fluent in both languages.

Answer 21

This should help a little - http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/le_or_la_in_french.shtml

Answer 22

https://frenchtogether.com/french-nouns-gender/

Answer 23

Im not sure if you guys know this but im gonna ask anyway.. how do you say "You got a 90%?" (someone told me that would be a good intonation example... i just dont know how to say it in french)

Answer 24

exactly, if there is a word that you don't connaitre, you use it in a different language.

Answer 25

what do you mean? By spelling it out or....saying it in a conversation?

Answer 26

No more like translating..

Answer 27

You got a 90%
vous avez un pour cent quatre-vingt

Answer 28

@JazzyLuvsU123 That sounds like Googletranslate! :(

Answer 29

try explaining it to her....just in case she needs the information again

Answer 30

do you guys know?

Answer 31

Vous means= You
Avez Means= Have or in your case Got
pour cent= You probably guessed this is Percent
Quatre-vingt= 90

Answer 32

Do you know mathmate?

Answer 33

I would translate it as "you have obtained 90%", something like
Vous avez obtenu quatre-vingts pourcents.
Notice that pourcent is written as one word, and is a noun, so requires a plural.
@JazzyLuvsU123
Quatre-vingts is 80, with the "s" after it.
Quatre-vingt-dix is 90, without the "s" after "vingt" (between 81 and 99)
Learning numbers from 1 to 100 is a one-week job in elementary school!

Try
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:French_numbers

and be careful with sites like this (wrong spellings between 81 and 99):
http://www.learnfrenchlanguageguide.com/learn-french-grammar/french-numbers/

Answer 34

thanks @mathmate

Answer 35

well it needs to be a question.. I guess i dont have to use that question but a question were your pitch goes up at the end

Answer 36

Correction:
*quatre-vingt-dix pourcents.

Answer 37

That works... in conversations only.

Answer 38

Yeah.. that just what my teacher asks

Answer 39

ok then.