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Mastering the Imperative in French: Commands, Requests & Advice

Learn how to give orders, express desires, make requests, and offer advice using the imperative in French. Master conjugating verbs and using different forms for informal and formal commands. Enhance your language skills today!

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Mastering the Imperative in French: Commands, Requests & Advice

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  1. L’impératif

  2. L’impératifthe imperative • Used to… • Give an order • Express a desire • Make a request • Offer advice • Recommend something

  3. L’impératif • When you tell someone to do something, you use the command form of the verb – this is the imperative (impératif)

  4. Giving orders • How do you give commands or directions in English? • Eat your vegetables. • Listen to the directions. • Let’s go shopping at the mall. • What are the usual parts of sentences? • Subject • Verb • Object • So what’s missing? Is it really missing?

  5. Giving orders • Eat your vegetables. • (tu) Mange teslégumes. • Listen to the directions. • (vous) Écoutez aux directions. • Let’s go shopping at the mall. • (nous) Faisons du shopping au centre commercial.

  6. How to conjugate the verbs? • You can use one of 3 forms in French • Tu (informal command) • Vous (formal command) • Nous (suggestion/advice “let’s…”) • Conjugate the verbs normally except don’t write the “tu”, “vous” or “nous”

  7. -er verbs • Tudanses. Danse! You dance. Dance! • Vousdansez. Dansez! You dance. Dance! • Nous dansons. Dansons! We dance. Let’s dance!

  8. -ir verbs • Tu finis. Finis! You finish. Finish! • Vousfinissez. Finissez! You finish. Finish! • Nous finissons. Finissons! We finish. Let’s finish!

  9. -re verbs • Tu attends. Attends! You wait. Wait! • Vousattendez. Attendez! You wait. Wait! • Nous attendons. Attendons! We wait. Let’s wait!

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