CBF 3:16 | Looking at triggers for the subjunctive
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 6 March 2011
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re consolidating what we’ve learned so far about the subjunctive in French. We’ll categorise the examples we’ve heard so far in the texts of Alf, Katie and Veronica, and Mark will walk you through some further examples including pour que, pourvu que, bien que, and many more. We’ll learn about situations when you use the subjunctive which relate to demands and wishes, and we’ll also cover situations involving opinions and emotions. This episode will help you to get to grips with the French subjunctive and lay the groundwork for further examples in future texts. Please note that lesson 16 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 316 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 | Coffee Break French, Season 3, Episode 16, Members Version. |
| 0:10.0 | Bonjour à tous et à tout. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to another episode of Coffee Break French. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, this episode is a little different from our recent episodes. |
| 0:20.0 | And that we're not going to be focusing on one of the texts from Alf, Katie and Veronica. |
| 0:25.0 | Instead, we're going to be looking at a particular element of French grammar |
| 0:29.0 | that we've covered in a few essence recently. |
| 0:32.0 | And that is the subjunctive. |
| 0:34.0 | This episode is a review of what we've learned so far with the subjunctive |
| 0:38.0 | and we'll be introducing a few new elements too. |
| 0:41.0 | Alors, est-ce que vous êtes prêt? |
| 0:43.0 | Allez, c'est parti! |
| 0:51.0 | Now, the idea of what we're going to be doing in this lesson |
| 0:54.0 | is looking at some of the examples that we've covered so far. |
| 0:57.0 | And we're going to be categorizing these |
| 0:59.0 | so that when we learn new subjunctives in the future |
| 1:02.0 | or new situations which require the subjunctive in the future, |
| 1:05.0 | we'll be able to put these into categories |
| 1:08.0 | and it will help you understand exactly when you use the subjunctive in French. |
| 1:13.0 | However, before we get to that, |
| 1:15.0 | we are going to start by looking at the formation of the subjunctive, |
| 1:18.0 | the present subjunctive of regular verbs. |
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