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Les prépositions, une dernière fois
Module 15 of the free French course (CEFR C2 mastery — the capstone), lesson 23 of 30: Third: the preposition a verb takes. 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 23.
The words
French
English
Say it
la préposition du verbe
the verb's preposition
lah pray-poh-zee-syoh(n) dew VEHRB
jamais intuitif
never intuitive
zhah-meh za(n)-tew-ee-TEEF
la liste courante
the running list
lah leest koo-RAH(n)T
ceux qu'on rate
the ones you get wrong
suh koh(n) RAHT
quinze mots
fifteen words
ka(n)z MOH
la couture visible
the visible seam
lah koo-tewr vee-ZEEBL
peu changeant
little changing
puh shah(n)-ZHAH(n)
la mémoire pure
pure memory
lah may-mwahr PEWR
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
Third: the preposition a verb takes. It is memory, it never becomes intuitive, and at C2 it is where a very good text still shows a seam.
Et aussi · And also
The habit that works: keep a running list of the ones you get wrong, not a list of all of them. Yours will be about fifteen words long and it will not change much.
Attention · Watch out
Keep a running list of the verb + preposition pairs YOU get wrong, not of all of them; it stays about fifteen words long. ceux qu'on rate — rater here is to get wrong, the same verb as missing a train.
apprendre — the table
je apprends · tu apprends · il/elle apprend · nous apprenons · vous apprenez · ils/elles apprennent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with la préposition du verbe.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out apprendre 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.