French Grammar and Pronunciation Glossary

The French grammar and pronunciation glossary provides definitions and links to further information about each of the French verb tenses, pronouns, and other grammatical structures. It also includes information about various pronunciation issues. You can search for definitions by topic (below) or by using the full alphabetical list in either English or French (definitions are in English). Or you can get just the highlights: Top grammar terms.


Adjectives
   demonstrative adjective
   descriptive adjective
   indefinite adjective
   interrogative adjective
   negative adjective
   possessive adjective

Adverbs
   adverbial pronoun
   adverb of frequency
   adverb of manner
   adverb of place
   adverb of quantity
   adverb of time
   comparative adverb
   interrogative adverb
   negative adverb
   superlative adverb

Agreement
   gender
   number

   adjectives
   articles
   pronouns

Clauses
   dependent clause
   if-then clause
   independent clause
   main clause
   relative clause
   subordinate clause

Conjunctions
   coordinating conjunction
   subordinating conjunction

Objects
   object

   direct object
   direct object complement/pronoun

   indirect object
   indirect object complement/pronoun

   intransitive verb
   transitive verb

Parts of speech
   adjective
   adverb
   article
   conjunction
   noun
   preposition
   pronoun
   verb

Pronouns
   adverbial pronoun

   demonstrative pronoun
   direct object pronoun
   disjunctive pronoun

   impersonal pronoun
   indefinite pronoun
   indefinite relative pronoun
   interrogative pronoun

   negative pronoun

   personal pronoun
   possessive pronoun
   pronominal verb

   reflexive pronoun
   relative pronoun

   stressed pronoun
   subject pronoun

Pronunciation
   cognate
   euphony
   hiatus
   liaison
   linking

Verbs

* conjugate/conjugation
       inflection
       mood
       number
       person
       tense
       voice

* compound tense
       auxiliary/helping verb
       compound past
       conditional perfect
       future anterior/perfect
       past conditional
       past perfect subjunctive
       past subjunctive
       past anterior
       past infinitive
       past perfect
       pluperfect
       pluperfect subjunctive
       present perfect

* historical/literary/narrative tense
       historic past
       past anterior
       imperfect subjunctive
       pluperfect subjunctive

* inversion

* mood
       conditional
       imperative
       indicative
       infinitive
       participle
       subjunctive

* participle
       past participle
       perfect participle
       present participle

* simple tense
       conditional
       future
       future subjunctive
       historic past
       imperative
       imperfect
       imperfect subjunctive
       present
       preterite
       simple past
       subjunctive

* types of verbs
       copular verb
       impersonal verb
       intransitive verb
       pronominal/reflexive verb
       transitive verb

Miscellaneous
   agent
   antecedent
   conditionals / conditional sentence
   proper noun
   register
   subject
    - dummy subject
    - real subject

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