📖LearnModule 9 · Lesson 13 of 30Independent User · CEFR B2, completedUnit 3 · Le discours rapporté au passé
Rapporter une question au passé
Module 9 of the free French course (CEFR B2, completed), lesson 13 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 13.
The words
French
English
Say it
il m'a demandé si je venais
he asked me if I was coming
eel mah duh-mah(n)-day see zhuh vuh-NEH
ce que je faisais
what I was doing
suh kuh zhuh fuh-ZEH
interroger
to question
a(n)-teh-roh-ZHAY
l'interrogationfeminine — the article elides to l'
the questioning
la(n)-teh-roh-gah-SYOH(n)
plat
flat
plah
disparaître
to disappear
dees-pah-REHTR
l'indicemasculine — the article elides to l'
the clue
la(n)-DEES
correctement
correctly
koh-rehk-tuh-MAH(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.
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
A reported question in the past takes both changes at once: the word order goes flat, and the tense steps back. « Est-ce que tu viens? » becomes il m'a demandé si je venais.
Et aussi · And also
The what-question keeps ce que: « Qu'est-ce que tu fais? » becomes il m'a demandé ce que je faisais. No question mark survives — that is the tell that you have done it properly.
Attention · Watch out
A reported question in the past shifts both word order and tense: il m'a demandé si je venais. No question mark survives — if one does, you have not reported it.
faire, plus-que-parfait — the table
je avais fait · tu avais fait · il/elle avait fait · nous avions fait · vous aviez fait · ils/elles avaient fait
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with il m'a demandé si je venais.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out faire, plus-que-parfait 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.