Articles are words that come before nouns to indicate gender and number:

Pronouns replace nouns to avoid repetition:

Essential French verbs with their conjugations:

French adjectives must agree with the nouns they describe:

Common French prepositions and their usage:

Every French verb belongs to one of three groups, and the group tells you how to conjugate it. Learn these patterns and you can conjugate thousands of verbs.

Once the present tense is solid, these eight forms cover almost everything you need to talk about the past, the future, and what you want someone to do.

The building blocks that turn vocabulary into sentences — negation, questions, pronouns, comparison and the small words that hold French together.