adjectives: agreement of, 44; common adjectives, 43; comparison of, 99–100; demonstrative, 61; interrogative, quel, etc., 45; irregular, 45; irregular comparison of, 100; position of, 44; possessive, 74–5; quelque, 144; quelques, 18
adverbs: comparison of, 99–100; ending-ment, 39; irregular comparison of, 100; lists of, 27, 53, 82, 113, 137, 161, 184, 215, 237
article: contracted, du, des, an, aux, 24; definite, 12–13; indefinite, 13, 18; partitive, some, any, 110
avoir, 40, 212; avoir besoin (de), raison, tort, 82
cars, expressions concerning, 225
ceci, cela, 130
ce qui, ce que, 201
c’est, use of, 61
cinema, 88
cooking expressions, 133
dates, 95
days of week, 9
des, some, 18
elision, 8
en, pronoun, preposition, 23, 111; partitive pronoun, 111, 221; with present participle, 143
family, 11
foods, 105
French provinces, 59
fruit, 109
greetings and farewells, 17–18
holidays, public, 151
house, rooms and contents, 11, 23, 59
il y a, 11, 207; il y avait, 207
imperative, see tenses
languages, 17
letters, business, 172
liaisons, 7
materials, 147
meals, 104
me voici, etc., 206
monetary system, 68
months of year, 93
negative of verbs, 19, 36, 40–1
nouns: gender of, 13; plural of, 13
number: one to twenty-one, 7; one to sixty-nine, 65; seventy to one million, 69–70; arithmetical terms, 66, 73; ordinal, 95
on, 153
points of compass, 142
polite and familiar-you’, 35
possession, 24
prepositions: en, 23, 111, 143; list of, 23, 27, 53, 82, 113, 137, 161, 215; with emphatic pronouns, 134; with infinitive, 143, 212; with present partiticiple, 143
professions, 195
pronouns: demonstrative, 130; direct object, 89–90, 221–2; double object pronouns, 222; indefinite, on, 153; independent or emphatic or disjunctive, 134–5; indirect object, 120–1, 221–3; partitive en, 111, 221–2; possessive, 227–8; quelqu’un, 144; interrogative pronouns, 28, 55; reflexive direct and indirect object, 221; relative 201–2; subject, 19, 34; y, 221–2
quelques, 18
questions, 15, 19, 28, 35, 40–1, 94, 207, 221–2, 226
quoi, 64 (note 1)
railway travel, 78
revisions 26–8, 52–4, 81–3, 112–12, 136–7, 160–1, 184–5, 214–15, 237–8
seasons, 124
s’en aller, 234
shops and shopkeepers, 220
si (whether), 235
smoking terms, 142
some, any, 110
tenses (see also verbs): future, 157; imperative, 35, 50, 60, 69, 79, 89, 94, 99, 106, 134, 167, 197, 211; with me and te, 135; with pronouns, 90, 222 (e);imperfect, 206–7, 212; irregular future, 158, 168; irregular past participle, 173, 177, 182; irregular present conditional, 231; past conditional, 234–5; past infinitive, 212; past participle: agreement of, 178, 191–2; regular formation of, 173; used as an adjective, 182; past perfect 226–7; past tense for conversation: formation of, with avoir, 172–3; with être, 191–2; past of reflexive verbs, 196–7; present, 34–5 (and see list of verbs below); present participle: formation of, 144; regular future, 157–8; regular present conditional, 231; tenses after prepositions, 143, 212
vegetables, 109
verbs (see also tenses above): conjugation of, acheter, 148; aller, 40; appeler, 148; avoir, 40, 212 (2); boire, 86 (note 9); célébrer, 148; commencer, 152, 213 (note 1); connaître, 74; croire, 69; devoir, 125, 212 (2); dire, 60; écrire, 49–50; envoyer, 134; espérer, 148; être, 41; faire, 69; finir and other verbs ending in -ir, 94; jeter, 149; lire, 49–50; manger, 152, 213 (note 1); mettre, 99; ouvrir, 120; partir, 78–9; pouvoir, 65, 212 (2); préférer, 148; prendre, 49–50; recevoir, 125; répéter, 148; rire, 211; savoir, 74, 212 (2); sortir, 78–9; suivre, 167; tenir, 152; traduire, 167; vendre, 49; venir, 89, 152, 207; vivre 211; voir, 60; vouloir, 65, 212 (2); endings of, 34–5; être-verbs: list of, 192; followed by indirect objects, 121 (3); negative, 36 (5); reflexive verbs, 105–6, 143
weather, expressions of, 119
working men and women, 142