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Vocabulary
Objective: Name countries and continents in French, and apply correct preposition and gender agreement to nationalities.
| French | English | Phrase |
|---|---|---|
| la France | France | en France |
| le Canada | Canada | au Canada |
| l'Espagne | Spain | en Espagne |
| le Japon | Japan | au Japon |
| l'Italie | Italy | en Italie |
| le Brésil | Brazil | au Brésil |
| les États-Unis | the United States | aux États-Unis |
| les Pays-Bas | the Netherlands | aux Pays-Bas |
Nationalities used as adjectives are always lowercase in French, unlike English, so français takes no capital letter.
The nationality adjective agrees with the subject's gender, so français becomes française for a female speaker.
The nationality adjective is lowercase in French. A female speaker would say je suis française.
The feminine form of canadien doubles the n and adds -e, producing canadienne.
France is feminine, so it takes the preposition en without any article.
Canada is masculine, so it takes au, which contracts à and le.
Plural countries take aux, the contracted form of à and les.
Cities take the bare preposition à without any article, unlike countries.
5 exercises · about 8 minutes
Masculine countries take au rather than en, so le Canada requires the preposition au in every sentence.
Plural countries take aux, which contracts à and les, and the separate forms à les never appear together.
The feminine form is italienne, following the -ien to -ienne pattern.
Espagne is feminine and vowel-initial, so it takes en. The time expression cet été follows the destination.