Tex's French Grammar: Adverbs: Recent Episodes
First Year French @UT Austin
Tex's French Grammar is the grammar component of Français Interactif, an online French course from the University of Texas at Austin.
- asset title: adv2_ex1: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex1.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 1/16
- time: 0:06
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Edouard cuisine bien.
Edouard cooks well.
Joe-Bob mange beaucoup.
Joe-Bob eats a lot.
- asset title: adv2_ex10: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex10.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 2/16
- time: 0:27
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Joe-Bob: Edouard, viens dîner avec nous ce soir!
Joe-Bob: Edouard, come out to eat with us this evening!
Edouard: Je n'aime pas dîner dans des restaurants américains parce que je trouve du ketchup partout.
Edouard: I don't like to eat in American restaurants because I find ketchup everywhere.
Vous allez sûrement au Salt Lick, et tu sais que je déteste le barbecue.
You're surely going to go to the Salt Lick and you know that I detest barbeque.
Joe-Bob: Malheureusement, on n'a pas assez d'argent pour aller dans un restaurant snob!
Joe-Bob: Unfortunately, we don't have enough money to go to a snobby restaurant!
Edouard refuse obstinément l'invitation de Joe-Bob: Tu m'invites souvent, mais toujours à l'américaine!
Obstinately, Edouard refuses Joe-Bob's invitation: You invite me out to eat often, but always in the American style.
- asset title: adv2_ex2: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex2.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 3/16
- time: 0:50
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manner
bien, well
mal, badly
vite, quickly
time
souvent, often
quelquefois, sometimes
toujours, always
jamais, never
tôt, early
tard, late
bientôt, soon
aujourd'hui, today
hier, yesterday
maintenant, now
déjà, already
demain, tomorrow
place
dedans, inside
dehors, outside
ici, here
là, there
partout, everywhere
quelque part, somewhere
quantity or degree
beaucoup, a lot
très, very
trop, too much
assez, enough
peu, little, not much
peut-être, maybe
sequence
d'abord, at first
puis, then, next
alors, then, so
donc, thus
enfin, finally
- asset title: adv2_ex3: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex3.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 4/16
- time: 0:18
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lent(e), slow
lentement, slowly
doux (douce), soft
doucement, softly
heureux (heureuse), happy
heureusement, happily, fortunately
franc (franche), frank
franchement, frankly
- asset title: adv2_ex4: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex4.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 5/16
- time: 0:12
- size: 150 KB
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poli(e) polite
poliment, politely
absolu(e), absolute
absolument, absolutely
vrai(e), true, real
vraiment, truly, really
modéré(e), moderate
modérément, moderately
- asset title: adv2_ex5: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex5.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 6/16
- time: 0:13
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récent, recent
récemment, recently
fréquent, frequent
fréquemment, frequently
suffisant, sufficient
suffisamment, sufficiently
méchant, wicked, malicious
méchamment, wickedly, nastily
- asset title: adv2_ex6: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex6.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 7/16
- time: 0:13
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précis(e), precise
précisément, precisely
profond(e), deep
profondément, deeply
énorme, huge, enormous
énormément, enormously
- asset title: adv2_ex7: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex7.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 8/16
- time: 0:08
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Edouard: J'habite le Texas depuis très longtemps, mais je trouve que le barbecue est vraiment dégueulasse!
Edouard: I've lived in Texas for a very long time, but I find that barbecue is truly disgusting!
- asset title: adv2_ex8: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex8.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 9/16
- time: 0:15
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Edouard comprend mal les habitudes culinaires américaines.
Edouard understands poorly American culinary habits.
Edouard ne marche pas vite, parce qu'il sait déjà ce que les clients vont commander.
Edouard is not walking fast, because he already knows what the customers are going to order.
Edouard: Ils exigent toujours du ketchup, mais il n'y a pas de ketchup dans mon restaurant.
Edouard: They always demand ketchup, but there is no ketchup in my restaurant.
- asset title: adv2_ex9: adverbs: formation and placement
- filename: adv2_ex9.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 10/16
- time: 0:05
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Joe-Bob: J'aime beaucoup le ketchup!
Joe-Bob: I like ketchup a lot!
Edouard: J'aime davantage le foie gras!
Edouard: I like foie gras even more!
- asset title: adv3_ex1: placement of adverbs with passé composé
- filename: adv3_ex1.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 11/16
- time: 0:21
- size: 253 KB
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Tex: Oh, j'ai trop mangé. Je ne vais pas bien dormir.
Tex: Oh, I ate too much. I am not going to sleep well.
Edouard: Mais tu n'as pas beaucoup mangé! Juste de la soupe!
Edouard: But you didn't eat much! Just some soup!
Tex: Oui, mais il y avait une mouche dans la soupe!
Tex: Yes, but there was a fly in the soup!
Edouard: Quoi? Une mouche dans mon restaurant! Pas possible!
Edouard: What? A fly in my restaurant! It's not possible!
Je vais immédiatement te préparer une infusion. Oh, tu sais, les mouches, ça se digère vite.
I'm going to prepare an herb tea for you right away. Oh, you know, flies are easily digested.
- asset title: adv4_ex1: comparative and superlative of adverbs
- filename: adv4_ex1.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 12/16
- time: 0:12
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Joe-Bob court plus vite qu'Edouard.
Joe-Bob runs faster than Edouard.
Tex court moins vite que Joe-Bob.
Tex runs slower (less fast) than Joe-Bob.
Qui court aussi lentement qu'Edouard? Personne, bien sûr!
Who runs as slowly as Edouard? No one, of course!
- asset title: adv4_ex2: comparative and superlative of adverbs
- filename: adv4_ex2.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 13/16
- time: 0:18
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Joe-Bob: Vous allez bien aujourd'hui? Vous êtes en forme pour la course?
Joe-Bob: Are you doing ok today? Are you in good shape for the race?
Tex: Ah, oui, je vais mieux qu'hier. Je n'ai pas fumé depuis 24 heures.
Tex: Ah yes, I am better than yesterday. I haven't smoked for 24 hours.
Edouard: Moi, je vais moins bien qu'hier. J'ai tellement travaillé que j'ai des courbatures.
Edouard: Oh no, I am less well than yesterday. I've worked so much that I have aches and pains.
Corey: Oh, je vais aussi bien qu'hier. Je suis dopé, comme d'habitude.
Corey: Oh I am doing as well as yesterday. I'm high (on insecticides), as usual.
- asset title: adv4_ex3: comparative and superlative of adverbs
- filename: adv4_ex3.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 14/16
- time: 0:21
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Joe-Bob, Tex, Corey et Edouard se préparent à faire une course.
Joe-Bob, Tex, Corey and Edouard are about to start a race.
Corey: Qui va gagner?
Corey: Who's going to win?
Joe-Bob: Moi, bien sûr! je cours le plus vite et Edouard va être le dernier parce qu'il court le moins vite!
Joe-Bob: Me, of course! I run the fastest and Edouard is going to be last, because he runs the least fast!
Edouard (vexé): Tu dis ça parce que je suis un escargot! Mais tout le monde sait que je cours le plus élégamment!
Edouard (offended): You say this because I am a snail! But everyone knows that I run the most elegantly!
- asset title: adv5_ex1: -il y a, ago
- filename: adv5_ex1.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 15/16
- time: 0:22
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Tex: La mère supérieure m'a écrit récemment. Elle veut un souvenir du Texas! Il y a un an j'ai promis de lui envoyer quelque chose, mais en ce moment je n'ai pas d'argent. Je viens de dépenser mes derniers sous il y a 10 minutes.
Tex: Mother Superior (Tex was raised by nuns in France) wrote me recently. She wants a souvenir from Texas! A year ago I promised to send her something, but now I don't have any money. I just spent my last money 10 minutes ago.
Joe-Bob: Pense à des souvenirs pas chers. Hmmm . . mon ancien berceau, peut-être. C'est parfait pour une mère!
Joe-Bob: Think of souvenirs that don't cost much. Hmmm ... my old crib, maybe. It's perfect for a mother!
- asset title: adv6_ex1: tôt, tard, en avance, en retard, à l'heure
- filename: adv6_ex1.mp3
- chapter: Adverbs
- track number: 16/16
- time: 0:36
- size: 435 KB
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Tex et Bette sont devant PCL.
Tex and Bette are outside PCL.
Bette: Qui est-ce que tu attends, Tex?
Bette: Who are you waiting for Tex?
Tex: Oh, comme d'habitude, j'attends Edouard. Il est en retard. Il n'est jamais à l'heure.
Tex: Oh, as usual, I'm waiting for Edouard. He is late. He is never on time.
Bette: Moi, je suis toujours à l'heure. Et j'arrive même en avance quand j'ai rendez-vous avec quelqu'un comme toi: digne, intelligent, sophistiqué, beau ...
Bette: I am always on time. And I even arrive early when I'm meeting someone like you: dignified, intelligent, sophisticated, handsome ...
Tex: Bof ... Tu crois qu'il est trop tôt pour parler mariage avec Tammy?
Tex: Bof ... Do you think it is too early to discuss marriage with Tammy?
Bette: Certainement! Il est beaucoup trop tôt. Tu dois attendre! Regarde l'heure. Il est tard. On y va?
Bette: Certainly! It is much too early. You have to wait! Look at the time. It is late. Shall we go?