French 2: Bonjour! and Other Stories

Bonjour is a universal greeting that can be spoken at anytime, anywhere. Bon après-midi is often used as a farewell in the afternoon. Bonsoir is a greeting for the evening.

Liaison: an otherwise silent ending consonant is pushed to the next word, where it's pronounced as part of the first syllable. Like elisions, this prevents consecutive vowel sounds.

Enchaînements: ending consonant sounds are pushed onto the next word if it begins in a vowel. This is essentially the same as a liaison, except that the consonant sound wasn't silent beforehand.

Noun Genders

All nouns in French have a gender, which is mostly fixed. Some nouns may have multiple genders depending on context (e.g.: ami/ amie for male and female friend respectively). In some cases the same spelling of a noun can have different meanings for different genders (e.g.: le tour - a tour; la tour - a tower). 

While memorizing noun genders is difficult, there are certain patterns one can remember to make the process easier:

• Languages, days of the week, months, seasons, metals, colours and measurements are usually masculine. 
• Word endings 1: Words ending in -e tend to be feminine. 
• Word endings 2: Nouns ending in -ion and -son tend to be feminine. 
• Word endings 3: Nouns that end in the following types of -e usually are masculine (-tre, -ble, -cle, -one, -ème, -ège, -age, -isme)
• Complications:
  -é is masculine, but -té is feminine.
  -de is masculine, but -ade, -nde, and -ude are feminine.
  -ste and -me tend to be masculine, but there are dozens of exceptions. Words for people ending in -ste are often gender-neutral, e.g. le/la cycliste.
  -eur is masculine for most professions or technical terms, but it's feminine for some emotions and abstract things.
  Feminine animals: female animal nouns are generally formed as follows by taking the last consonant, doubling it, and adding a mute -e to the end.

Vocabulary

40	Le lait	milk	noun
41	le sandwich	sandwich	noun
42	le riz	rice	noun
43	Oui	Yes	Phrase
44	Non	No	Phrase
45	Merci	Thank you	Phrase
46	Bonjour	Good morning	Phrase
47	ça va	how are you It goes well/ it's fine	Phrase
48	Salut	hello	Phrase
49	Pardon	Sorry	Phrase
50	Au revoir	Goodbye	Phrase
51	s'il te plaît/ s'il vous plaît	please	Phrase
52	Il y a	There is/ are	Phrase
53	Bienvenue	Welcome	Phrase
54	D'accord	Alright	Phrase
55	Comment ça va	how are you	Phrase
56	ça va bien	I'm fine/ it goes well	Phrase
57	à demain	see you tomorrow	Phrase
58	à plus tard	see you later	Phrase
59	désolé	sorry	Phrase
60	bonsoir	good evening	Phrase
61	bonne nuit	goodnight	Phrase
62	de rien	it's nothing you're welcome	Phrase
63	merci beaucoup	thank you very much	Phrase
64	un cheval	a horse	noun
65	un chien/ une chienne	a dog	noun
66	une jument	mare	noun
67	un animal	an animal	noun
68	un oiseau	a bird	noun
69	un canard	a duck	noun
70	une chatte	a (female) cat	noun
71	un éléphant	an elephant	noun
72	un ours	a bear	noun
73	une tortue	a turtle	noun
74	un lion	a lion	noun
75	une vache	a cow	noun
76	un cochon	a pig	noun
77	une mouche	a fly	noun
78	un singe	a monkey	noun
79	un requin	a shark	noun
80	une abeille	a bee	noun
81	un tigre	a tiger	noun
82	un dauphin	a dolphin	noun
83	un serpent	a snake	noun
84	une araignée	a spider	noun
85	un souris	a mouse	noun
86	un papillon	a butterfly	noun
87	une insecte	an insect	noun
88	un fourmi	an ant	noun
89	une baleine	a whale	noun
90	un loup	a wolf	noun
91	un lapin	a rabbit	noun
92	une poule	a chicken	noun