French indefinite Article (French Essentials Lesson 8) Video Lecture | Learn French Language: Step by Step Tutorial for Beginners

bozo in the Avenue I learned French with
an exam today folks we are going to
learn about indefinite articles that's
right that's why I titled this lesson
Lee's article and the fini indefinite
articles there is a video available for
definite articles which I invite you to
watch if you have not thought so already
but today we are going to learn about
indefinite articles now indefinite
article is a grammatical term what does
it mean for example I would like you to
give me an indefinite article in English
uh-huh
well you definitely have one in English
and it comes before an unusually okay I
help you the article is a it designed
something something nonspecific as in
there is a carrot on the table so it is
a carrot but on the table see here I've
used two definite and indefinite
articles a being indefinite the being a
definite article hmm can hear the
difference and how the meaning of the
sentence changes just by swapping the
articles over
okay so indefinite article would be a as
I said as in a nonspecific thing I use a
pen I'm reading a book so since you are
not pointing out what book it is or have
never referred to it before you would
use a now let's have a look at the
different indefinite articles we have in
French well we have two one is an and
the other one is una una comes before a
feminine gender a feminine noun a
feminine thing and a before a masculine
one
okay so the same rule applies as to when
you use a definite article as I've
stated in another video LA or LA okay so
a word is either feminine or masculine
and will either have une or in front of
it when it is in in its singular form
and when you're saying a a pen a
computer a lump whatever when it is
plural that means more than one then we
use the word d-des such as tables or
chairs would be in French dig table have
a look okay D shares and you definitely
have to put day in front of the article
if you want to translate tables chairs
you see in English you don't but in
French you will always have to have an
article in front of the noun a word
which has an e at the end is more likely
to be preceded by the article una for
example you know table have a look
the ending is e una caja and again it's
a sound so it's likely to be uhn-uhn
long but that's a lump in flute and
that's a recorder in flipped okay Exeter
her so there is an e at the end of these
words so it's more likely to be in
actually 75% of the time but we do have
exceptions sometimes the word does not
have an e and will still be feminine
such as in can be hot okay in television
and that's a television in Fleur and
that's a flower and this world does not
end with an e but it's still feminine I
know it is hard to tell when a word is
feminine or masculine but try and
practice if you get it
it is not the end of the world okay we
would still understand what you mean and
as I say it still sounds cute anyway as
for the masculine article and well you
would say for example a new leaf oh my
goodness an elephant a ton and gaha and
that's a coach another car Shafi you a
Robin a NASA tap as in tap of water
Exeter her exit to her but also you
would say ah leave her here
leave ends with an e and is not feminine
but masculine so it belongs to one of
these exceptions so let me explain how
to use D in a sentence in French I think
the best way for me to do it will be by
explaining it in English in English you
would say for example they are apples on
the table
okay so apples on the table but you
could also say there are some apples on
the tables on the table just one table
okay so the thing is in English you can
say the sentence without any articles
there are apples on the tables on the
table Khan say it there app or something
what but in French we would have I mean
it's obligatory to put an article before
Apple in order to give it its plural
gender and the only way we can do that
is by saying D des
so we would say ilha de Paume seola
table we would just not say Elia poem
seola table like you do in English that
does not exist in French at all we will
have to put an article and this article
is de approval form okay of of this
indefinite article ilha de pomme
tabla we translate as there are apples
on the table or there are some apples on
the table is that clear is it okay with
you okay here's a game guess whether the
word appearing on the screen just here
is a or hoon
okay how about Aldi Nutter ordinator
which is a computer haha that's aa
Norden either it's a computer it's
masculine here's another one
cool that means cryin and it's a crayon
it's masculine here's another one ah as
in some bread or bread it's a pan
ah per IBM and that means a bread came
photo photo as in photography well
because photography ends with an e it's
in Yunnan photo okay but we imagine that
the world is not quite photo about
photography in photo failure and that
means leaf as in the leaf of the tree
for year look at the ending and the
logic is that it's in for you well done
so far and that's it so far as you know
so far so far been ah so far very good
and how about adding it as a spider
hanging in Avenue very good it's in
hanging I know it is hard to get it
right but trust me it comes with
practice it does all these words that
can become can become prover all by the
way just by adding d-des in front of
them so if you took the same words you
would say not add nelifa but you would
say the gsella form the Zen if I'm doing
the liaison between the s of T and
II availa phone I can do that because
elephant began begins with a vowel so
elephant means elephants okay but we
would say deep
Zarafa the time trains they car coaches
- are you trolleys etc and we translate
these as like I said elephants trends
cars okay we were done in English
necessarily put some trains some cars I
came but it can be both in in in English
as in no articles and some as in the
article but in French you always always
have to put the in front of a noun or a
or in put an article in front here's a
game transform the next word into its
plural form for example a baja Prix
which is an umbrella a baja Prix deep /
happily will be it's it's a plural form
okay so I transformed and badly one
umbrella a umbrella in two umbrellas
which is deeper happy here's another
word and boom which is a bench you will
transform that as deep bow very good
benches the next one villo a value which
is a bicycle uh-huh in its plural form
will be bicycles but in French deep
Villa very good and another one in
Oaxaca that's an orange okay an orange
in homage with the Zohan OSHA would be
the plural form of oranges okay or harsh
and the last one how would you put into
its plural form in bal as in a bowl own
bal would be the value well done very
good it's not hard is it
I think the hardest
that would be to find whether where
these uh oh you know okay the same way
as you would find whether where it is
low or laugh okay
so by the way and one last thing if you
say une bum as in an apple when you put
it into his definite article form the
Apple it will be la pomme you follow the
same logic okay they have to be feminine
all the time okay not one article
masculine one article feminine okay so
to summarize we have two ways of saying
a ah for masculine word and une for
feminine and by the way they both mean
one as in the number one so if you were
to say there is one apple on the table
you would also say Illya une palm salad
table okay we don't just say uh as in
one but in as palm is feminine okay so
in the twat or at the top okay that
works both ways by the way do you get it
okay
so and the last article is d which means
some okay
when using the word in its plural form
okay um une Oh
d thanks up to you what do you want to
do with this and why don't you practice
have a look at the French word or an
English word try to translate it into
French and put the right article play
with the indefinite article which would
just have seen all the definite article
Orla okay I think that's it for me today
lots of information to take in have a
look at this lesson again if you wish
okay and I see you very soon overwhelm
us you au revoir Madame au revoir
Mademoiselle
a bientot a Bisou Bisou
you