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Vocabulary
Objective: Name French celebrations and life milestones, extend and accept invitations, and congratulate someone using the correct register.
| Celebration | Greeting | English |
|---|---|---|
| l'anniversaire | Bon anniversaire ! | birthday |
| Noël | Joyeux Noël ! | Christmas |
| le Nouvel An | Bonne année ! | New Year |
| la fête des Mères | Bonne fête, maman ! | Mother's Day |
| la fête des Pères | Bonne fête, papa ! | Father's Day |
| le mariage | Tous mes vœux de bonheur ! | wedding |
| la naissance | Félicitations ! | birth |
| le diplôme | Félicitations pour ton diplôme ! |
Anniversaire is masculine, so the adjective is bon in the masculine form. The feminine bonne applies to feminine nouns such as fête and année.
Both the article une and the adjective joyeuse take the feminine form because the noun fête is feminine singular.
Anniversaire is masculine, so the adjective is bon. The greeting is fixed and never uses the feminine form.
Noël is masculine and takes joyeux, while année is feminine and takes bonne.
Inviter à takes the preposition à before the event. The past participle invités agrees with the plural subject.
The indirect object pronoun lui replaces à elle and sits before the auxiliary ai.
Félicitations is always plural. The possessive mes agrees in number with the noun.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
| graduation |
| la promotion | Félicitations pour ta promotion ! | promotion |
| les fiançailles | Tous mes vœux de bonheur ! | engagement |
The preposition à contracts with the masculine article le to produce au. The sequence à le is never correct in French.
The indirect object pronoun lui replaces à elle and sits before the auxiliary ai. The stressed form after a preposition is not used when a pronoun can carry the meaning.
The informal expression ça te dit means would you like to. The preposition de introduces the infinitive.
Les noces d'or mark fifty years of marriage. The verb fêter takes a direct object.
The conditional je serais softens the acceptance. The adjective ravi agrees with the masculine speaker.