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Build Your First French Sentences 🦦
sentence building · subject-verb-complement
From words to real sentences! Learn the simple subject + verb + complement recipe that lets you build your own French phrases instead of memorising them.
🎬 About this episode
From words to real sentences! Learn the simple subject + verb + complement recipe that lets you build your own French phrases instead of memorising them.
🔊 Key phrases for this topic
Je mange une pomme.I eat an apple. (S+V+C!)
Tu regardes la télé.You watch TV.
Nous aimons le français.We love French.
Elle a un chat.She has a cat.
Je ne mange pas de pain.I don’t eat bread.
🔑 The language point
- The recipe: subject + verb + complement — Je + mange + une pomme. Same as English!
- Swap one ingredient at a time to make new sentences: je mange → tu manges → elle mange.
- Practise building with the sentence-builder games.
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