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Free online course Learn French grammar

Duration of the online course: 11 hours and 45 minutes

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Build confident French with a free grammar course: verbs, articles, pronouns, negatives and questions—clear lessons plus practice to boost speaking and writing.

In this free course, learn about

  • Conjugate and use the verb être in the present tense
  • Form negatives with ne...pas, incl. elision before vowels (n')
  • Use French subject pronouns (je, tu, il/elle/on, nous, vous, ils/elles)
  • Choose correct definite articles (le, la, l', les) and their uses
  • Conjugate regular -er verbs in present; know meanings like visiter = to visit
  • Use indefinite articles (un, une, des) and distinguish what is NOT one
  • Use possessive adjectives for 'my' by gender/number (mon, ma, mes)
  • Ask questions with 'how' and translate it (comment)
  • Recognize French vowel sounds, incl. common pronunciations of the letter E
  • Use demonstrative adjectives (ce, cet, cette, ces) to point out nouns
  • Conjugate and use aller and avoir in the present tense
  • Use contracted articles (à + le = au; à + les = aux, etc.)
  • Use interrogative pronouns (qui, que/qu', quoi, lequel, etc.)
  • Use pronominal verbs with reflexive pronouns (se...) in French

About the free online course

Strong grammar is what turns scattered French words into clear, confident communication. This free online course helps you understand how the language is built so you can speak, write, and read with fewer doubts and far more accuracy. Instead of memorizing random phrases, you will learn the patterns that make sentences work, giving you a foundation you can reuse in everyday conversations, travel situations, studies, or professional goals.

You will start by mastering essential building blocks that appear constantly in real French: core verbs used to describe who you are, what you have, where you go, and what you do. From there, you will learn how French sentences are structured, how subject pronouns guide conjugation, and how to form negative statements naturally, including cases where sound changes occur before vowels. As your confidence grows, you will learn how to choose the right articles for the meaning you want, including forms that change with gender and number, contracted forms used after common prepositions, and partitive forms for talking about quantities and uncountable things.

The course also supports you in making your French more precise and expressive. You will work with possessive and demonstrative adjectives to show ownership and point to people or objects clearly, and you will learn how adjectives behave in French compared to English, including how colors function. You will also improve your ability to ask for information by forming questions using useful interrogative words and pronouns, making it easier to handle practical interactions and understand what others are asking you.

To make learning stick, the lessons are reinforced with targeted exercises that check understanding and help you correct typical beginner mistakes. By the end, you should be able to produce cleaner sentences, recognize common grammatical signals while reading or listening, and feel ready to move on to broader vocabulary and conversation practice with a much stronger base.

Course content

  • Video class: Learn French - Le verbe être (The Verb être) Grammar | By Suchita 04m
  • Video class: Learn French - La négation (How to make negative sentences) Grammar | By Suchita 06m
  • Exercise: How do you negate a sentence in French with a verb starting with a vowel?
  • Video class: Learn French - Les pronoms sujets (The subject pronouns) Grammar | By Suchita 03m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles définis (Definite articles) | By Suchita 15m
  • Exercise: How many different ways of saying 'the' (definite articles) are there in French, as opposed to just one in English?
  • Video class: Learn French - Commonly Used 'ER' Verbs Grammar | By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: What does the French verb 'Visiter' mean?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les verbes -er (The -er verbs) (Present Tense) | By Suchita 16m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles indéfinis (Indefinite articles) | By Suchita 13m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is NOT an indefinite article in French?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les adjectifs possessifs (Possessive adjectives) (1/3) | By Suchita 20m
  • Exercise: How do you express 'my' in French for different genders and numbers?
  • Video class: Learn French - Asking Question By 'HOW' | By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: How is 'How' translated in French?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les voyelles (The vowels) | By Suchita 07m
  • Exercise: In French, how is the letter 'E' pronounced, as explained in the text?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les adjectifs démonstratifs (Demonstrative adjectives) | By Suchita 14m
  • Exercise: What is a demonstrative adjective used for in French?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Le verbe aller (to go) Present Tense | By Suchita 11m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles contractés (Contracted articles) (Part 1/3) 14m
  • Exercise: In French, what are the contracted articles formed from the preposition 'à' when combined with the definite article 'le'?
  • Video class: Learn French - Les pronoms interrogatifs (The interrogative pronouns) By Suchita 08m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Group 1 Regular French ER Verbs (Present Tense) | By Suchita 13m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les verbes pronominaux (Pronominal verbs) (Part 1/2) | By Suchita 14m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is a characteristic of pronominal verbs in French?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les couleurs (The colours) Part 1/2 | By Suchita 14m
  • Exercise: How are colors treated as adjectives in French compared to English?
  • Video class: Learn French - Le verbe avoir (Verb avoir) 03m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles partitifs (The partitive articles) | By Suchita 13m
  • Exercise: Which article in French is used for expressing a quantity that cannot be precisely measured, specifically when talking about masculine singular objects?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les verbes -IR (-IR verbs) | 2nd group | Present Tense | By Suchita 19m
  • Exercise: What is the general rule for conjugating regular French IR verbs in the present tense?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les prépositions des lieux (The prepositions of places) Part 1/2 09m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les adjectifs interrogatifs (Interrogative adjectives) | By Suchita 15m
  • Exercise: What determines which interrogative adjective (quel, quelle, quels, quelles) to use in French?
  • Video class: Les pays et les nationalités (Countries and nationalities) (Part 1/2) | By Suchita 13m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar | Practise your definite articles | By Suchita 10m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Pluriel des noms (Plural of nouns) | (Part 1/2) | By Suchita 12m
  • Exercise: What is the general rule for forming the plural of most nouns in French?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles contractés (Contracted articles) (Part 2/3) 12m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Le verbe vouloir (To Want) | By Suchita 09m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les conjonctions (Conjunctions) (Part 1/2) | By Suchita 10m
  • Exercise: In French, what is the conjunction used to express opposition or contradiction between two clauses that typically begins with the vowel 'a'?
  • Video class: Les expressions avec avoir (Expressions with avoir) | By Suchita 11m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - La mise en relief (Ce qui/ Ce que) By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: In French grammar, how do you emphasize the subject of your affection or irritation?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - La mise en relief (Ce qui/ Ce que) By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: In French grammar, how do you emphasize the subject of your affection or irritation?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Passé Composé avec avoir (Past tense with avoir) By Suchita 07m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar | Practise your indefinite articles | By Suchita 11m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les adjectifs possessifs (Possessive adjectives) (3/3) | By Suchita 10m
  • Exercise: In French, how do you say 'my rooms' when referring to multiple rooms?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Le verbe DEVOIR (Have To / Must) | By Suchita 06m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les articles contractés (Exceptions) (Part 3/3) 16m
  • Video class: French Grammar | The uses of pronominal verbs (Part 2/2) | By Suchita 12m
  • Exercise: Which verb form would you use in French to express the idea 'I call myself'?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Passé Composé avec être (Past tense with être) 1/2 By Suchita 05m
  • Video class: Learn French Language Training Webinar II - July | By Suchita | DELF/TEF/TCF Exam Prep 58m
  • Video class: How to say WHAT IS THIS and WHO IS THIS in French | C'est and Ce sont | By Suchita 10m
  • Exercise: In French, how would you ask 'What are these?' when referring to non-living objects?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Passé Composé avec être (Past tense with être) 2/2 By Suchita 07m
  • Video class: Learn French - Le verbe POUVOIR (Can/to Be Able To) | By Suchita 07m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Asking 'When' Questions - Quand in French | By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: How do you ask 'When do you wake up in the morning?' in French?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les couleurs (The colours) Part 2/2 | By Suchita 16m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les verbes -RE (-RE verbs) | 3rd group | Present Tense | By Suchita 08m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Le conditionnel présent (The conditional present) By Suchita 05m
  • Exercise: How is the ending of a verb in French conditional tense modified for a verb that ends in -er?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Pluriel des noms (Plural of nouns) | (Part 2/2) | By Suchita 13m
  • Video class: Asking questions in French with INTONATION and EST-CE QUE | By Suchita 08m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Asking Questions By 'HOW' | By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: Which of the following sentences appropriately asks 'How are you?' in French?
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les verbes -er (The -er verbs) By Suchita 06m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les pronoms relatifs (Relative pronouns) 1/3 By Suchita 06m
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les verbes -ger (-ger verbs) Present Tense | By Suchita 13m
  • Exercise: In which group of French verbs do the G-E-R verbs fall into?
  • Video class: Les pays et les nationalités (Countries and nationalities) (Part 2/2) | By Suchita 14m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar | Le verbe connaître (to know) | Present Tense | By Suchita 08m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Connaître (to know) — Present Tense | By Suchita 05m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is the correct conjugation of the verb 'connaître' (to know) in the third person singular form?
  • Video class: French Grammar | Les conjonctions (Conjunctions) (Part 2/2) | By Suchita 08m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Le passé récent (Recent past) | By Suchita 05m
  • Video class: Asking questions in French with INVERSIONS (Part 2/2) | By Suchita 16m
  • Exercise: Which of the following is an example of an interrogative sentence formed using inversion in French?
  • Video class: Learn French - Exprimer vos goûts (Expressing what you like/dislike) | By Suchita 07m
  • Video class: DEPUIS or PENDANT? How to say SINCE or FOR in French? | By Suchita 12m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les pronoms relatifs composés (Relative pronouns) By Suchita 04m
  • Exercise: What is the term for a feminine singular noun in French?
  • Video class: IL Y A - How to say there is or there are in French | By Suchita 14m
  • Video class: How to conjugate the -tir verbs in French (Present tense) 3rd group irregular verbs 08m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les pronoms relatifs (Relative pronouns) 2/3 By Suchita 04m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Les pronoms relatifs (Relative pronouns) 3/3 By Suchita 05m
  • Video class: Learn French Grammar - Le plus-que-parfait (past perfect tense) | Live Skype Class 06m
  • Video class: Difference between grâce à and à cause de in French | By Suchita 01m
  • Exercise: In French grammar, what is the difference between 'grâce à' and 'à cause de' when they precede a noun?

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How do you form a negative sentence in French when the verb begins with a vowel?

Place ne before the verb and n’ before a vowel or silent h, followed by pas: Je n’aime pas.

Why are there several French words for “the,” and when do I use them?

French definite articles agree with gender and number: le for masculine, la for feminine, l’ before a vowel or silent h, and les for plural nouns.

What is the present-tense conjugation rule for regular French -IR verbs?

For second-group regular -IR verbs, remove -ir and add -is, -is, -it, -issons, -issez, or -issent.

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