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Vocabulary
Objective: Name clothing items and materials, ask for a size or a colour, and complete a purchase in a French clothing shop.
| French | English | Material | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| une chemise | a shirt | en coton | in cotton |
| un pantalon | trousers | en laine | in wool |
| une jupe | a skirt | en soie | in silk |
| un manteau | a coat | en cuir | in leather |
| un pull | a sweater | en laine | in wool |
| une robe | a dress | en lin | in linen |
| des chaussures | shoes |
Pantalon is masculine singular, so the adjective keeps its masculine form noir with no -e. The feminine ending would not agree with the noun.
The colour adjective agrees with the noun chemise, which is feminine, so bleue takes the feminine ending.
Chemise is feminine singular, so the adjective takes the feminine form blanche. The material phrase en coton takes no article.
Pantalon is masculine, so noir keeps its masculine form. The expression aller à quelqu'un describes the fit.
The demonstrative cette agrees with the feminine noun robe. The verb essayer introduces the fitting action.
The interrogative adjective quelle agrees with the feminine noun taille. The verb faire expresses size.
The partitive du appears before the size number, following the fixed pattern of this expression.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
| en cuir |
| in leather |
| un jean | jeans | en denim | in denim |
Putting on shoes and putting on a coat are both physical actions, so both take mettre. Porter describes the resulting state of wearing an item.
The expression is aller à quelqu'un, and the indirect pronoun me is the object, so the verb stays in the third-person singular va.
Chaussures is plural feminine, so the adjective petites takes the feminine plural ending.
Enlever means to take off. The en plus present participle structure means while entering and appears in a later lesson on the gerund.
The direct object pronoun l' replaces the garment. The material phrase is replaced here by a colour, but the same structure applies: en bleu.