📖LearnModule 10 · Lesson 14 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridgeUnit 3 · Le subjonctif, la carte complète
La liste des conjonctions
Module 10 of the free French course (CEFR B1 + B2 mastery, and the C1 bridge), lesson 14 of 30: . On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 14.
The words
French
English
Say it
après que
after (with a verb)
ah-PREH kuh
par cœur la liste
the list by heart
pahr kuhr lah LEEST
la grammaire de référence
the reference grammar
lah grah-mehr duh ray-fay-RAH(n)S
discuter
to argue about
dees-kew-TAY
formellement
categorically
for-mehl-MAH(n)
l'usagemasculine — the article elides to l'
usage
lew-ZAHZH
douteux dans la pratique
doubtful in practice
doo-tuh dah(n) lah prah-TEEK
apprendre par cœur
to memorize
ah-prah(n)dr pahr KUHR
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
Eight conjunctions take the subjunctive and you should know them by heart: bien que, quoique, avant que, jusqu'à ce que, pour que, afin que, à condition que, sans que.
Et aussi · And also
Three that look like them do NOT: après que (indicative, because it has already happened), parce que, and même si. Après que is the one careful French writers argue about, and the grammar books are clear: indicative.
Attention · Watch out
après que takes the INDICATIVE, because it has already happened, however much it looks like avant que. The eight subjunctive conjunctions are a fixed list: learn them by heart.
attendre, subjonctif — the table
je attende · tu attendes · il/elle attende · nous attendions · vous attendiez · ils/elles attendent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with après que.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out attendre, subjonctif in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.