French/Lessons/Weather

The preposition means at or in:

The contraction is used in place of à le (singular):

Likewise, the contraction is used in place of à les (plural).

Mireille:

Monique:


 * Monique could also use the question form instead of the intonation given above:
 * Est-ce qu'il va pleuvoir aujourd'hui ? (Pronounced eh-skeel)
 * or
 * Va-t-il pleuvoir aujourd'hui ?

Mireille:

Monique:

Marcelle:

Similar to English, pleuvoir is an : it has only a third-person singular conjugation:
 * il pleut (present)
 * il va pleuvoir or il pleuvra (future)
 * il pleuvrait (conditional).

In order to say that one did not do something, the construction must be used. The is placed before the verb, while the  is placed after.

Formation and rules
Simple negation is done by wrapping around the verb:

In a past tense, surrounds the auxiliary verb, not the participle:

When an infinitive and conjugated verb are together, usually surrounds the conjugated verb:

can also precede the infinitive for a different meaning:

precedes any pronoun relating to the verb it affects:

In spoken French, the can be omitted, leaving simply  after the verb in context:

Negation of indefinite articles
The indefinite articles un, une, and des change to de (or d’) when negating a sentence.

Note that means both the weather and the time.

The verb is translated to to go. It is irregularly conjugated (it does not count as a regular verb).

Usage
There is no present progressive tense in French, so aller in the present indicative is used to express both I go and I am going:

Aller must be used with a place and cannot stand alone.

In addition to meaning at or in, the preposition means to when used with :

An infinitive preceded by is used to say that something is going to happen in the near future:

Recall that the negative goes around the conjugated verb.

In place of a preposition and place, the pronoun, meaning there, can be used; y comes before the verb:

Remember that aller must be used with a place (there or a name) when indicating that you are going somewhere, even if a place wouldn't normally be given in English.

The negative form of aller with the y pronoun has both the verb and pronoun enclosed between ne and pas: