My family Lesson 14 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 In French the word for "my" changes with the word after it: mon père (my dad), ma mère (my mum), mes parents (my parents). 1 Many family words come in a boy form and a girl form: un cousin and une cousine, un oncle and une tante, un fils and une fille. 2 Picture a French kitchen: the children call their grandparents mamie and papi, like nan and grandad, while a school form says grand-mère and grand-père. 3 Plural letters are often silent: deux frères sounds exactly like deux frère, so you can only see the s, not hear it. 4 Some family words look funny: une belle-mère is a stepmum, not a "beautiful mum", and sœur is written with the joined letters œ. 5 J'ai deux frères means "I have two brothers"; the plural s is written but not heard. 6 After ne ... pas, un, une and des usually change to de: j'ai une sœur, but je n'ai pas de sœur (I don't have a sister). 7 "My" is mon before a masculine word (mon père), ma before a feminine word (ma mère) and mes before a plural (mes parents). 8 Before a feminine word starting with a vowel sound, ma changes to mon so it is easy to say: mon amie (my girl friend), mon école. 9 Children call their grandmother mamie and their grandfather papi (or papy); the full words are la grand-mère and le grand-père. 10 un cousin is a boy cousin and une cousine ("koo-ZEEN") is a girl cousin; un oncle is an uncle and une tante is an aunt. 11 An only child is fille unique (a girl) or fils unique (a boy); enfant unique works for anyone. 12 le fils (the son) sounds like "FEESS": the l is silent and the s is said. 13 un demi-frère is a half-brother; une belle-mère is a stepmum or a mother-in-law, and un beau-père is a stepdad or a father-in-law. 14 frérot ("fray-RO") and sœurette ("sur-ET") are cosy slang for little bro and little sis. 16 Slang here: "wee" (Scotland) means small; "bruv" means mate; "yeah nah" (Australia) means no; "my lover" (Bristol) means dear; "dead" (Ireland) means very; "no cap" means honestly; "tamping" (Wales) means fuming; "our kid" (Liverpool) means my brother or sister. ← previous Weather and seasonsnext → Pets and animals↑ back to French This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/