Learn French - Unit 6 - Lesson A - Les démonstratifs

bonjour à tous and welcome to learn French with Vincent and this is unité 6 leçon A and in this lesson we'll discover together les démonstratifs les démonstratifs so we'll see two type of demonstratif the first one will be adjective demonstratif okay and then the second one will be pronom all right so let's start so we'll see for the adjective demonstratif the masculine singular form feminine singular form masculine plural form and then feminine plural form okay masculin singulier féminin singulier masculin pluriel and then féminin pluriel so let's see how they are so when we talk about les démonstratifs technically it would be in English like this okay but then of course we've got in French the difference between the masculine and the feminine form and then masculine plural and feminine plural okay so we'll see them now the first one so for the masculine so this this okay adjective will be translated in French with CE so it's the basic form or CET okay so you will have to use this second option here this CET when you will have a name or a noun after that will start whether with a vowel or then with ASH plus a vowel okay remember this ASH letter in French is not really pronounced okay so it does it does indicate to you that well when you get the word starting with the sound of a vowel then you will have to use this CET adjective okay and then feminine form is CET like that so it's quite interesting because if you listen carefully the masculine form here CET and the feminine form here CET you write them differently but then you all right for the plural forms for masculine plural it would be CET okay and then feminine plural good news it's the same so we've got one form here CET and the option CET when you get a noun starting with a vowel after and then CET feminine form and for the plural you get only one form okay and it's CET okay remember open CET okay one example CE LIVRE so this book okay LIVRE is book here LIVRE is masculine so you will have to use the CE okay and then it doesn't start with the sound of a vowel so it's the basic CE this book CE LIVRE and now we've got ORDINATEUR ORDINATEUR is a masculine word means computer okay but then if you look carefully it starts with O okay a vowel so this CE ORDINATEUR wouldn't be possible so we've got to use the second option as we saw previously so it's CET written like that okay CET ORDINATEUR this computer third possibility here we've got HOMME MAN okay but then O is here we've got this H letter remember H is not pronounced okay so you've got the sound of O at the beginning of this word okay CET HOMME so that's the reason why you will have to use the CET so it's masculine but still CET HOMME so now feminine word FEMME WOMEN no problem about that because we've got only one option for this at the feminine form it's CET written like that CET FEMME same thing here if you've got a word like ORGANISATION well it's the same in english so it starts with a vowel but it doesn't change anything for the feminine demonstrative here okay CET ORGANISATION CET ORGANISATION and then plural so whether it's masculine so we've got FRIENDS here at the masculine form so masculine plural and then FRIENDS here at the feminine plural form okay but then the adjective demonstrative here as you can see will be the same CESAMI CESAMI all right and it's quite funny in a way because if you only listen to these two things here CESAMI and then CESAMI you don't have really any phonetical information regarding the fact whether it's masculine or feminine that's the way it is sorry about that but so let's continue now with the demonstrative so we'll see now the pronouns okay so same thing we'll see the MASCULIN SINGULIER then FEMININ SINGULIER then MASCULIN PLURIEL and then FEMININ PLURIEL okay so pronouns okay so it does mean that you will have to use these pronouns instead of the name okay so for the masculine form we'll have CELUIS-CI and then CELUIS-LA okay so we'll see the difference of use but then CELUIS-CI CELUIS-LA in english it would be directly translated as this one okay so you don't want to repeat the name or the thing that was previously stated so you use this this one okay in english it's easier in french it's a bit more tricky because we will have this CELUIS okay and then CI and LA so you'll see that normally CI is coming first and then LA is coming next okay CELUIS-CI CELUIS-LA this one all right same thing with the feminine form CEL-CI CEL-LA all right and then for the masculine plural CEU-CI okay remember final x is not pronounced so you get the sound CEU CEU-CI and then CEU-LA all right feminine plural CEL-CI okay don't pronounce the all right so let's see a few examples now so if you ask a question okay what is my book or which one is my book all right and then the answer could be VOTRE LIVRE your book C'EST CELUIS-CI this one okay VOTRE LIVRE C'EST CELUIS-CI okay and then normally when you talk or when you say that you tend to indicate that with your finger as well so you point the book VOTRE LIVRE C'EST CELUIS-CI where is my seat okay same thing you tend to point it at the same time okay C'EST CEL-LA all right so you get to remember that we will have the difference between the masculine the feminine okay so singular and plural and then we'll have the difference between this CI okay the first option the nearest one okay and then this LA second option so it's not the nearest one okay so let's see and practice if it's okay with you then you can go to the next lesson and it's right here okay the website is have a great day bye