French A2 — Grammar flashcards
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Seventy prompts on A2 grammar: passé composé with avoir or être and agreement, imparfait vs passé composé, futur proche and futur simple, object pronouns, y and en and their order, negation forms, comparatives and superlatives, qui, que and où, and reflexive verbs in the past.
Learn deck · part of French A1–A2 · written against: CEFR A1–A2; standard metropolitan French; the vocabulary is 1,000 of the most frequent everyday words of an OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list, since DELF publishes no word list. Updated 2026-10-10.
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Elle ___ (descendre) les valises and Elle ___ (descendre) au sous-sol — which auxiliary in each?a descendu les valises / est descendue au sous-sol.Passé composé
With a direct object, descendre takes avoir and the participle does not agree with the subject; with no object it keeps être.
Watch out: monter, sortir, rentrer and passer switch the same way: J'ai sorti le chien. -
How is the imparfait formed?Take the nous form of the present, drop -ons, and add -ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient.Imparfait vs passé composé
The one exception is être: j'étais.
Example: nous finissons → je finissais; nous buvons → je buvais. -
How is the futur simple of regular verbs formed?infinitive + -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont: je parlerai, tu finiras.Future
Verbs in -re drop the final e: prendre → je prendrai.
Watch out: -er verbs like acheter and appeler keep their present-tense spelling change in every person: j'achèterai, nous appellerons. -
What are the direct object pronouns? Replace the object in Je regarde la télé.me, te, le, la, nous, vous, lesObject pronouns
Placed before the conjugated verb, or before the infinitive when one follows (Je vais la regarder). An affirmative command puts it after the verb: Regarde-la !
Example: Je la regarde. -
Replace the place with a pronoun: Tu vas à Paris ? — Oui, …Oui, j'y vais.Y & en
y replaces a place introduced by à, en, dans, chez.
Watch out: It is dropped before irai and irais: J'irai demain, not "j'y irai". -
In what order do object pronouns come before the verb?me / te / se / nous / vous → le / la / les → lui / leur → y → enPronoun order
Example: Il me le dit ; je le lui donne ; je lui en parle. -
How do you say I never buy popcorn at the cinema?Je n'achète jamais de pop-corn au cinéma.Negation
ne … jamais wraps the verb like ne … pas, and du pop-corn becomes de pop-corn. -
How do you say taller than, less tall than and as tall as?plus … que, moins … que, aussi … queComparatives & superlatives
Example: Léa est plus grande que Marc. The adjective agrees with the subject. -
qui or que: L'homme ___ parle avec Marie est mon oncle.quiRelative pronouns
qui is the subject of the relative clause, so the verb follows it with no other subject in between. -
Which auxiliary do reflexive verbs take in the passé composé? Say I got up before my alarm went off.être: Je me suis levé(e) avant la sonnerie du réveil.Reflexive verbs in the past
The reflexive pronoun comes before the auxiliary.
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- Checked against the Bescherelle conjugation tables, the Académie française's Questions de langue and Dictionnaire (9th edition), Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and their usage and grammar notes, the CNRTL TLFi, the Académie française's 1990 rectifications for verb spellings, the Office québécois de la langue française's Banque de dépannage linguistique, Le Bon Usage (Grevisse) for agreement rules, and the Council of Europe CEFR A2 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
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