le concert aura lieu sur le parvis concert will take place in the square in d’une “The église front of a The parvis is the area in church”. front of a church. An example of this could be the square in front of the Cathédrale de Notre Dame in Paris. (Try typing parvis Notre Dame into Google maps to see it) take in French is avoir lieu, literally “To place” The irregular future stem of “to have place”. avoir is aur- and the future tense is conjugated as follows: concert) will begin at Commencer “(The 5pm.” (le concert) commencera à 17h is regular in the future tense. hope (that) it will Il pleuvra is the “I not rain.” ne pleuvra pas j’espère qu’il future tense of the verb pleuvoir. Since this verb is an impersonal verb (ie. you cannot say etc.) you only need to know “I rain”, “you rain”, that il pleut in the present becomes il pleuvra in the future. Note that in English we don’t always use the future tense after “to hope”. Consider hope it and hope it “I doesn’t rain” “I both have the same meaning won’t rain”: these in English. However, in this situation in French you must use the future tense after espérer, eg. que tu viendras, hope (that) j’espère “I you will come”. you Note that in French you have to “As know”. comme vous le savez say you know “as it”. will arrive in Nice in a “She few weeks”. elle arrivera à Nice dans quelques Quelques can be translated as or “a few” semaines “some”. must try to prepare the house for “I her arrival”. je dois essayer de préparer la maison pour Note essayer de followed by the infinitive. son arrivée will finish the painting in the Finir is “I kitchen”. je finirai la peinture dans la cuisine a regular -ir verb, conjugated as follows:
le concert aura lieu sur le parvis d’une église (le concert) commencera à 17h j’espère qu’il ne pleuvra pas comme vous le savez elle arrivera à Nice dans quelques semaines je dois essayer de préparer la maison pour son arrivée je finirai la peinture dans la cuisine “The concert will take place in the square in front of a church”. The parvis is the area in front of a church. An example of this could be the square in front of the Cathédrale de Notre Dame in Paris. (Try typing parvis Notre Dame into Google maps to see it) “To take place” in French is avoir lieu, literally “to have place”. The irregular future stem of avoir is aur- and the future tense is conjugated as follows: “(The concert) will begin at 5pm.” Commencer is regular in the future tense. “I hope (that) it will not rain.” Il pleuvra is the future tense of the verb pleuvoir. Since this verb is an impersonal verb (ie. you cannot say “I rain”, “you rain”, etc.) you only need to know that il pleut in the present becomes il pleuvra in the future. Note that in English we don’t always use the future tense after “to hope”. Consider “I hope it doesn’t rain” and “I hope it won’t rain”: these both have the same meaning in English. However, in this situation in French you must use the future tense after espérer, eg. j’espère que tu viendras, “I hope (that) you will come”. “As you know”. Note that in French you have to say “as you know it”. “She will arrive in Nice in a few weeks”. Quelques can be translated as “a few” or “some”. “I must try to prepare the house for her arrival”. Note essayer de followed by the infinitive. “I will finish the painting in the kitchen”. Finir is a regular -ir verb, conjugated as follows: