les siens
les nôtres
les vôtres
les leurs
mine
yours
his/hers
ours
yours
theirs
ma copine ta copine
sa copine
notre copine votre copine leurs copine
my friend
your friend his/her friend our friend
your friend their friend
la mienne
la tienne
la sienne
la nôtre
la vôtre
la leur
mine
yours
his/hers
ours
yours
theirs
mes copines tes copines ses copines
nos copines vos copines leurs copines
my friends your friends his/her friends our friends your friends their friends les miennes les tiennes les siennes
les nôtres
les vôtres
les leurs
mine
yours
his/hers
ours
yours
theirs
Vous avez votre voiture? - You have your car?
Oui, nous avons la nôtre. - Yes, we have ours.
À + a stress pronoun is used when the noun replaced is also the subject of the sentence. This usually occurs in sentences with être.
Elle est ta voiture? - Is that your car?
Oui, elle est à moi. - Yes, it is mine.
Sentences
Subject - Verb - Direct object - Indirect object
If...
Si...
With present tense (le présent):
(1) Si + (le présent), (le futur simple)
Example: If you finish your homework, I'll give you some candies.
Si tu finis tes devoirs, je te donnerai des bonbons.
(2) Si + (le présent), (l'impératif)
Example: If you are cold, close the window.
Si tu as froid, ferme la fenêtre.
With imperfect (l'imparfait) past tense (to express hypothetical situations): (3) Si + (l'imparfait), (le conditionnel)
Example: If I had a million dollars, I would buy a house.
Si j'avais un million de dollars, j'achèterais une maison.
With "plus-que-parfait" (also to express hypothetical situations): (4) Si + (le plus-que-parfait), (le conditionnel passé)
Example: If I had known (or "had I known") computers were so useful, I would have taken a computer course.
Si j'avais su que les ordinateurs étaient si utiles, j'aurais suivi un cours de l'informatique.
Interrogation
Formation
Intonation
As in English, raising the tone at the end of a sentence can turn it into a question.
Example:
Il aime les bonbons. He likes sweets.
Il aime les bonbons? Does he like sweets?
Est-ce que...
"Est-ce que" literally means "Is it that", understood as "Is it true that", and can be used to form questions. To form a question with "Est-ce que...", attach "Est-ce que..." at the beginning of the sentence. Sometimes "que"
has to be modified to "qu'" for elision.
Example: Il aime ce film. => Est-ce qu'il aime ce film ?
(He likes this film. => Does he like this film?)
Inversion
This is considered to be the most formal way to ask a question out of the three.
(The indicative form of the following sentences will be placed in parentheses for comparison.) To ask a question by inversion, simple invert the verb and the subject (the pronoun) and insert a hyphen (un trait d'union) in between.
Example: Do you like apples? (You like apples.)
Aimes-tu les pommes ? (Tu aimes les pommes.)
