CBF 2:12 | The negative of the immediate future
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 9 May 2009
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this week's lesson, we take a look at the negative form of the immediate future tense. We also look at the different ways to say 'some' in French, also known as the partitive article. Please note that lesson 12 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 52 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. In this lesson, we're going to be looking again at |
| 0:16.2 | the immediate future tense. That's the tense that uses aile plus the infinitive. And we're |
| 0:21.4 | also going to be covering a concept called the partitive article. And that's when you |
| 0:26.0 | want to say some, for example, some coffee, some cheese, some music. So we'll be learning |
| 0:33.0 | all about this in this episode. And I hope you enjoy episode 52 of Coffee Break French. |
| 0:49.7 | So last time we were talking about the immediate future tense, which is used to talk about what's |
| 0:54.6 | going to happen. I'm going to eat in a restaurant this evening. They are going to listen to some |
| 1:00.8 | music. We are going to learn some French. Now today we're going to be looking at the negative of |
| 1:08.0 | these kind of statements. So using the immediate future tense and the negative. However, before we do |
| 1:13.6 | that, let's practice the immediate future in a few more sentences. So Anna, some sentences for you |
| 1:20.5 | to translate. And in each of these examples, we're going to take the opportunity to look at |
| 1:26.4 | something that's a little tricky in French, but something that we've come across many times before. |
| 1:31.1 | And that's what's called the partitive article. It's really how you translate some in French. |
| 1:36.4 | So for example, some coffee would be du café. Du café. Some French would be du français. |
| 1:47.6 | Du français. Okay, so when it's masculine, some is du. When it's feminine, some is de la. Last week, |
| 1:58.9 | we had écouter de la musique. De la musique. Some music. And if it were ice cream, it would be de la glace. |
| 2:10.2 | De la glace. So the partitive article translating some is du in the masculine. De la in the |
| 2:20.9 | feminine. And if it begins with a vowel is de plus elle a postrophe. So for example, some water. |
| 2:28.8 | De l'eau. Or even some architecture de l'architecture. |
| 2:36.8 | So remember those ones as we come to practice this using some immediate future tenses. Let's begin |
| 2:47.0 | with today, we are going to learn some French. Okay, so that would be today we're going to learn French. |
| 3:05.2 | What about some French using the partitive article? Oh, of course, that's what we've been learning today. |
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