French Grammar for Intermediate LearnersCEFR B1 Level
Master advanced concepts like subjunctive mood and passive voice.
Advance your French skills with B1 intermediate grammar. Learn subjunctive mood, passive voice, conditional sentences, and nuanced grammar rules. Designed for confident learners aiming for fluency in French.
Future Tense
Express future actions in French using the futur simple, futur proche (aller + infinitive), and understand when to use each.
Subjunctive and Conditional
Master the French subjunctive mood for expressing wishes and emotions, and the conditional for hypothetical situations.
Relative Clauses
Connect clauses in French using relative pronouns qui, que, dont, où, and understand when to use each.
Passive Voice
Form passive sentences in French using être + past participle, and understand when to use passive vs active voice.
Reported Speech
Report what others said in French using indirect speech, with appropriate tense shifts and pronoun changes.
Past Perfect Tense (Plus-que-parfait)
Master the French plus-que-parfait (past perfect) to describe actions that occurred before another past action. Formed with the imperfect of avoir or être plus the past participle, this tense is essential for storytelling, explaining sequences of past events, and reported speech in the past.
Infinitive vs Gerund
Master when to use the infinitive and the present participle (gérondif) in French. Learn which verbs are followed by direct infinitive, à + infinitive, or de + infinitive. Understand the gérondif (en + present participle) for expressing simultaneous actions or manner. Essential for natural French expression.
Adverbs & Adverb Position
Master French adverb formation and placement. Learn to form adverbs from adjectives using -ment, understand irregular adverbs like bien, mal, and vite, and know where to place adverbs in sentences. Proper adverb usage is key to expressing manner, degree, time, and frequency naturally.
Expressing Possession (De + Noun)
Master French possession expressions using de (of). Unlike English 's, French uses de + noun to show possession: le livre de Marie (Marie's book). Learn the contractions du and des, possessive pronouns for ownership, and the structure à + person for belonging. Essential for natural French expression.
Double Infinitive Construction
Master French constructions with multiple infinitives, including faire + infinitive (causative), laisser + infinitive, and verbs of perception. Learn how to express 'having something done', 'letting someone do', and complex verb sequences.
Subjunctive II (Konjunktiv II)
Master the French conditional mood for expressing hypothetical situations, wishes, and polite requests. Learn to form and use the conditionnel présent and passé, understand si-clauses, and express politeness in French conversation.
Participial Adjectives
Master using present and past participles as adjectives in French. Learn when to use -ant (present participle) vs -é/-i/-u (past participle) as descriptive words. Understand the difference between fatigant (tiring) and fatigué (tired), and how participles function as adjectives with proper agreement.
Two-Way Prepositions
Master French prepositions that express both location and direction. Learn when to use 'à', 'en', 'dans', and 'sur' for static location versus motion, and understand the nuances that distinguish French spatial expressions.
Complex Sentence Structure
Master advanced French connectors for building sophisticated sentences. Learn to use bien que (although), malgré (despite), afin que (in order that), à moins que (unless), pourvu que (provided that), and other B1-level conjunctions. These connectors allow you to express nuanced relationships between ideas.