Module 5 of the free French course (CEFR A2 mastery + the B1 bridge), lesson 9 of 30: Clothes, fit and the shop, replayed as one scene: Je cherche un manteau. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 9.
| French | English | Say it |
|---|---|---|
| le manteau | the coat | luh mah(n)-TOH |
| la robe | the dress | lah ROHB |
| les chaussuresplural | the shoes | lay shoh-SEWR |
| je porte | I wear / I am wearing | zhuh PORT |
| trop petite | too small (f) | troh puh-TEET |
| je peux essayer? | may I try it on? | zhuh puh ess-ay-YAY |
| parfait | perfect | pahr-FEH |
| je le prends | I will take it (m) | zhuh luh PRAH(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.
Clothes, fit and the shop, replayed as one scene: Je cherche un manteau. Cette taille est trop petite. Je peux essayer le bleu? Parfait, je le prends!
Parfait — perfect: the word that closes every good errand.
trop petite agrees with the noun it describes: cette taille est trop petite. trop itself never changes.
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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