Grammar

French is SVO.

Personal Pronouns:

Verb Conjugations in the present tense:

Verb stem + ending
Ex: apprendre - to learn

Verb conjugations in the past tense:
There are two popular ways to form the past tense in French: the passé composé and the imperfect past. This text uses both.

The passé composé is formed using an auxiliary verb (a conjugation of être (to be) or avoir (to have)) and a past participle: most often formed like this: manger > mangé, but there are exceptions and lucky for you, this text has an exception :^^) (it’s “pris”, past participle of prendre (to take)). Only a few words use être as an auxiliary. The verbs in this text use avoir.

ex manger - to eat + avoir - to have

The imperfect past is formed by adding an ending to the stem of the word, with a few exceptions, of course the only instance of it in this text is irregular so I’ve just put it in the table.

The imperfect past can then be combined with a past participle to make the “plus-que-parfait”, which is like “was eaten” or “had made.” Both parts of this tense are in the table.

Adjectives are declined by grammatical gender and number. For example: “petit” for a masculine noun, “petite” for a feminine noun, “petits” for more than one masculine noun, and “petites” for more than one feminine noun.