The body Lesson 16 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 15 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 The quickest way to learn the body in French is a game: in Jacques a dit, touchez la tête ! means "Simon says, touch your head!", and anyone who touches a knee is out. 1 Every body part has its own gender that has nothing to do with you: a boy says ma bouche (my mouth) and a girl says mon nez (my nose). 2 To say something hurts, use j'ai mal à: j'ai mal à la tête (my head hurts), j'ai mal au ventre (my tummy hurts), j'ai mal aux dents (my teeth hurt). 3 Some plurals are odd: one eye is un œil but two eyes are deux yeux, and one knee is un genou but knees are des genoux. 5 la tête ("TET") is the head; the ê sounds like "eh". 6 un œil is one eye and les yeux ("lay-ZYUH") are the eyes; this is the oddest plural in French. 7 j'ai mal à + body part means it hurts: à + le becomes au (j'ai mal au ventre), à + la stays à la (j'ai mal à la tête), à + les becomes aux (j'ai mal aux dents). 8 les cheveux ("lay shuh-VUH") is the hair on your head, always plural; un cheveu is one single hair. 9 le nez ("NAY") is the nose; the z is silent and the plural is also nez. 10 une main ("MAN") is a hand, un pied ("PYAY") is a foot with a silent d, le bras ("BRA") is the arm and la jambe ("ZHAHNB") is the leg. 11 The song Tête, épaules, genoux et pieds is the French "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; un genou (knee) becomes des genoux in the plural. 12 une dent ("DAHN") is a tooth; j'ai mal aux dents means my teeth hurt. 14 la bouche ("BOOSH") is the mouth and is feminine: ma bouche, even for a boy. 15 J'ai les yeux bleus means "I have blue eyes"; the colour comes after yeux and takes an s because yeux is plural. 16 Slang here: "ey up" (Yorkshire) means hey; "lush" (Wales) means lovely; "like" (Leeds) adds a shrug; "eh" (Canada) asks you to agree; "wee" (Scotland) means small; "heaps good" (Australia) means really good; "boss" (Liverpool) means great; "proper job" (West Country) means great; "y'all" (Atlanta) means you all. ← previous Pets and animalsnext → Clothes↑ back to French This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/16-the-body/