BEGINNER2. LESSON #4. FAISONS LES DEUX
- Sandrine a accepté de garder les deux enfants. Quelle chance !- Quelque chose me dit que ce n’est pas la dernière fois.
- Allons au musée.
- Avec plaisir. Lequel ?
- Au musée de l’Orangerie, il y a une exposition sur Renoir.
- Mais au musée d’Orsay, il y a une exposition sur Cézanne.
- La première est près d’ici.
- La deuxième est plus grande.
- Tu sais quoi ? Faisons les deux.
TRANSLATION
- Sandrine agreed to baby-sit both children. How lucky !
- Something tells me it’s not the last time..
- Let’s go to the museum.
- With pleasure. Which one ?
- There’s an exhibition on Renoir at the musée de l’Orangerie.
- But there’s an exhibition on Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay.
- First one is close.
- Second one is bigger.
- You know what. Let’s do both.
- Sandrine agreed to baby-sit both children. How lucky !
- Something tells me it’s not the last time..
- Let’s go to the museum.
- With pleasure. Which one ?
- There’s an exhibition on Renoir at the musée de l’Orangerie.
- But there’s an exhibition on Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay.
- First one is close.
- Second one is bigger.
- You know what. Let’s do both.
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Accepter : to agree. Musée (masc.) : museum. Lequel, laquel : which on. Exposition (fém.) : exhibition. Premier, première : first, first one. Deuxième, second, seconde : second, second one. Les deux : both. |
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These forms are feminine ones : ordinal numbers agree in gender and in number with the noun they refer to. Let’s now have a look at these ordinal numbers :
Notice it’s easy to form these numbers. Except for the first one, we take the cardinal number, we drop its –e if it has one then we add –ème. And we add le, la or les just before the number. In French we don’t have such a word as both. To express it, we often use : les deux (which is OK for both masculine and feminine). Sometimes we can also use tous les deux (masculine form) or toutes des deux (feminine form).
Sandrine a accepté de garder les deux enfants.
Faisons les deux. |
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All 136 museums in Paris, here. |
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Translate in French : 1. Something tells me… 2. There’s an exhibition on Manet. 3. She agreed. Translate in English : 1. Allons au musée. 2. Tu as accepté de venir. 3. La première est plus grande que la deuxième. Invitation (fém.) : invitation. What do you understand ? Answers |
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