Module 2 of the free French course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 6 of 30: Où asks where: Où est le chat? On this page: 7 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 6.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| où | where | oo |
| quand | when | kah(n) |
| où est le chat? | where is the cat? | oo eh luh SHAH |
| où habites-tu? | where do you live? | oo ah-beet-TEW |
| l'anniversairemasculine — the article elides to l' | the birthday | lah-nee-vehr-SEHR |
| quand est ton anniversaire? | when is your birthday? | kah(n) teh toh(n) nah-nee-vehr-SEHR |
| maintenant | now | ma(n)t-NAH(n) |
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.
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
Où asks where: Où est le chat? Où habites-tu? Quand asks when: Quand est ton anniversaire?
Question shapes you already know still work: est-ce que plus a question word — Où est-ce que tu habites?
où (where) wears a grave accent; ou without it means or. On the page, the accent is the only difference.
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.
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