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Vocabulary
Objective: State your personal details and ask matching questions to learn about another speaker.
| French | English | Register |
|---|---|---|
| Comment tu t'appelles ? | What is your name? | Informal |
| Comment vous appelez-vous ? | What is your name? | Formal |
| Quel âge as-tu ? | How old are you? | Informal |
| Quel âge avez-vous ? | How old are you? | Formal |
| Où habites-tu ? | Where do you live? | Informal |
| Où habitez-vous ? | Where do you live? | Formal |
| Quelle est ta nationalité ? | What is your nationality? | Informal |
| Quel est ton numéro de téléphone ? | What is your phone number? | Informal |
| Quelle est ton adresse email ? | What is your email address? | Informal |
The verb appeler is reflexive, so it requires the pronoun me which elides to m' before the vowel.
The formal question inverts the verb and the pronoun, producing appelez-vous with the hyphen linking the two words.
The reflexive pronoun me elides to m' before the vowel-initial verb appelle.
The formal question inverts the verb and the pronoun, producing appelez-vous with a linking hyphen.
Age uses the verb avoir and the noun ans. The hyphen joins the two parts of the number twenty-eight.
The nationality adjective agrees with the speaker's gender. A female speaker would say je suis française.
The elided j' appears before the silent h in habite. Cities take the preposition à without any article.
5 exercises · about 8 minutes
Age uses the noun ans, while années describes a duration, so j'ai 25 ans means I am 25 years old.
The reflexive pronoun must match the subject, so tu takes te, which elides to t' before the vowel.
The article le precedes the number in spoken French. The digits are grouped in pairs.
The email address follows the pattern of a full sentence. Arobase and point describe the two symbols in speech.
Célibataire ends in -e in the masculine form and stays identical for both genders.