
Essential French Grammar Study Notes – Beginner to Advanced Levels
There are a lot of rules to learn in French grammar. Whether you are working your way through my French Course for Self Learners, or if you’re doing this completely on your own, you’re learning so much. Sometimes it’s hard to remember details and charts as you move from one lesson to the next.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a concise resource to remind you of the essentials without having to go back to each and every lesson when you have a quick question?
This set of essential French grammar study notes is going to make studying French so much easier, and quick access to the rules you need to review will help you to remember them. These study cards cover all of the essential French grammar basics, from beginner to advanced levels.
You will no longer feel frustrated when you can’t remember how to form a verb tense, or you can’t remember if a verb is regular or irregular, you just can’t remember the different forms of possessive and demonstrative adjectives or pronouns, when to pronounce the S on TOUS, how to form and use the subjunctive, the different forms of si clauses, when to use which pronoun, how to use more than one in a sentence, and the list goes on!
This is a set of study cards that you can either print out in the form of bookmarks to have handy when you’re studying, or you may choose to download them as PDFs to use on your mobile device.
They are ready for you, saved with specific titles, so that you can easily pull them up when you need a quick rule. If you print them, I definitely recommend cutting them out and laminating them so that they’ll last forever!
Here’s a list of the essential French grammar study notes that are included so far (I occasionally add more):
- Present tense ER verbs
- Present tense IR verbs
- Present tense RE verbs
- Passé composé with avoir – ER verbs
- Passé composé with avoir – IR verbs
- Passé composé with avoir – RE verbs
- Imperfect tense
- Futur simple
- Present conditional
- Plus-que-parfait
- Futur antérieur
- Present subjunctive
- Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive
- Imperative
- Reflexive pronouns
- Indirect object pronouns
- Direct object pronouns
- The pronoun Y
- The pronoun EN
- Double pronouns
- Pronouns in the imperative
- Être – Aller – Avoir – Faire
- Demonstrative adjectives
- Possessive adjectives
- Tout as an adjective
- Disjunctive pronouns
- Interrogative words
- Placement of negation in all tenses
- C’est vs. Il est
- Forming adverbs
- Il faut + indirect object pronouns
- Depuis, pendant, il y a
- Si clauses – 1st conditional
- Si clauses – 2nd conditional
- Si clauses – 3rd conditional
- Possessive pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Après avoir – Avant de
- Qui – Que – Où – Dont
- Ce qui – Ce que – Ce dont
- Tout as a pronoun
- Gerunds
- Faire causative
- Lequel
- Auquel
- Duquel
- Basic colors
- Numbers 0 – 100
- Coordinating conjunctions
- Prepositions of place
- Expressions of quantity
- Avoir expressions
- Ways to use DE
- Vouloir – 3 tenses
- Pouvoir – 3 tenses
- Devoir – 3 tenses
- Avoir mal à + body parts
- Faire expressions
- Faire weather expressions
- Il y a – 6 tenses
- Verbs like offrir
- Manquer à
- Faire causative
- Ne . . . que
- Année vs An
- Depuis (for)
- Pendant (for)
- Il y a (ago)
- BAGS adjectives
- Verbs that use être & avoir in the passé composé


