BEGINNER1. LESSON #34. A L'HÔPITAL2
- Mme Ducrou, rappelez-moi… à quoi êtes-vous allergique ?- Noix, noisette, pomme, poire et banane.
- Vous prenez vos médicaments ?
- Oui. Tous les jours.
- M. Roux, à quoi êtes-vous allergique ?
- Je suis allergique au latex.
- Exact. Vous prenez vos médicaments tous les jours ?
- Oui. Trois fois par jour.
TRANSLATION
- Mme Ducrou, remind me… what are you allergic to ?
- Nut, hazelnut, apple, pear and banana.
- Do you take your medicine ?
- Yes. Every day.
- M. Roux, what are you allergic to ?
- I’m allergic to latex.
- Exactly. Do you take your medecine every day ?
- Yes. Three times a day.
- Mme Ducrou, remind me… what are you allergic to ?
- Nut, hazelnut, apple, pear and banana.
- Do you take your medicine ?
- Yes. Every day.
- M. Roux, what are you allergic to ?
- I’m allergic to latex.
- Exactly. Do you take your medecine every day ?
- Yes. Three times a day.
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Rappeler : to remind. Noix (fém.) : nut. Noisette (fém.): hazelnut. Poire (fém.): pear. Médicament (masc.) : medicine, drug. Jour (masc.) : day. Latex (masc.) : latex. Fois : times. |
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Let’s work today on interrogative sentences. We have in this lesson two sorts of questions : - The one with the inversion :
à quoi êtes-vous allergique ?
- The more familiar one with just an interrogation mark
Vous prenez vos médicaments tous les jours ?
We could have said : Vous êtes allergique à quoi ? and Prenez-vous vos médicaments tous les jours ? Both would have been correct. What’s new here is that Jean use an interrogative word to ask his question : quoi which is the same as what in English. And he used before quoi the preposition à because in French we say we are allergique à quelque chose. Not a problem for you at all : it’s the same in English when we say we’re allergic to. But notice that in French we never separate the preposition and the interrogative word. Attention ! Quoi is the form we use after prepositions. When there are no preposition, we use another way to say what. We’ll meet him soon. |
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Translate in French : 1. Who are you ? 2. I want oranges, pears and nuts. 3. I eat three times a day. Translate in English : 1. A quoi es-tu allergique ? 2. Tu vois quoi ? (que vois-tu ?) 3. Qui prend ses médicaments ? |
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