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“Jesuis…“(Iam)
In this lesson, we are going to learn one little and simple (but yet very useful) sentence
structure.
"JESUIS…"Iam…
Je=I
“Suis”istheconjugatedformoftheverb“être”(tobe)atthefirstpersonsingular.
Thisstructurecanbeusedtosaymanythingsaboutwhoyouare.
“JESUIS+NAME“
Inlesson1,wealreadysawthatyoucanintroduceyourselfbyusingthissentence
structureandaddingyourname:
JesuisJérémie.
IamJérémie.
MynameisJérémie.
JesuisMarie.
IamMarie.
MynameisMarie.
Anotherwaytotellyournameis:“Jem’appelle+name”.Itisthemostcommonwayto
tellyournamewhenyouintroduceyourselfforthefirsttime.Itcomesfromtheverb
“s’appeler”whichmeans“tobecalled”.
Jem’appelleJérémie.
IamJérémie.
MynameisJérémie.
Jem’appelleTimothée. IamTimothée.
MynameisTimothée.
Frenchbasicsentencestructure:Subject–Verb–Object
LikeEnglish,FrenchisaSVOlanguage,whichstandsforSubject–Verb–Object.
InordertobuildasimpleFrenchsentence,youwillneedtwoorthreeoftheseelements:
v Subject–Verb:youcanbuildthesimplestFrenchsentencebycombiningthese
twoelements.Ifyoudo,theverbisan“intransitiveverb”(doesnottakeobject).
Ex: Jesuis.
(S–V)
Iam.
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“Jesuis…“(Iam)
v Subject–Verb–Object:inthistypeofsentence,theverbisa“transitiveverb”
(followedbyanobject).
Ex: JesuisJérémie. IamJérémie
(S–V–O)
“JESUIS+NATIONALITY”
Simplyaddyournationalityafter“jesuis”.Notethatthewordusedforthenationalityisan
adjective.
Country
Nationality(formen)
Nationality(forwomen)
France(France)
Etats-Unis(U.S.A)
Angleterre(England)
Allemagne(Germany)
Espagne(Spain)
Chine(China)
Corée(Korea)
Japon(Japan)
français
américain
anglais
allemand
espagnol
chinois
coréen
japonais
française
américaine
anglaise
allemande
espagnole
chinoise
coréenne
japonaise
Examples:
Jesuisfrançais.
IamFrench.[formen]
Jesuisfrançaise.
IamFrench.[forwomen]
Jesuisaméricain(e).
I’mAmerican.
Jesuiscoréen(ne).
I’mKorean.
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“Jesuis…“(Iam)
“JESUIS+PROFESSION”
Youcanaddanounexpressingyourprofessionorwhatyouaredoinginlife.Eventhough
Frenchnounsareprecededbyanarticle(seeinfurtherlessons),youdon’tneeditwhen
youareintroducingwhoyouarewiththissentencestructure.
Jesuis+professeur(teacher)=Jesuisprofesseur.
I’mateacher.
Jesuis+médecin(doctor)=Jesuisdocteur.
I’madoctor.
Jesuis+étudiant(student)=Jesuisétudiant.
I’mastudent.
Jesuis+étudiante(student)=Jesuisétudiante[forwomen]*
I’mastudent.[forwomen]
* We will see in further lessons that most nouns and adjectives have a masculine and feminine
form.
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