But why is it je hais and not j'hais ? Also when do you
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But why is it je hais and not j'hais ?
Also when do you join si?
s'il
s'ils
s'elles
?
>>57652834
because theorically h are not silent
s'il(s), although many native speaker are not aware of that and write "si il"
si elle(s), i guess to not confuse it with "celle"
>>57653020
Ah cheers.
>>57653020
well, you have plenty of verbs beginning with h that spawn a j'
j'habite
j'hésite
j'hérite
j'hallucine
j'héberge
j'honore
etc...
but a lot don't do that too, so it's tricky, and what don't really have any other choice than learning what verb does what
je hache
je hante
je hausse
je heurte
je hurle
etc...
Because French is more bullshit than English but they will deny that.
>>57654003
oh yeah that's true
well i guess you'll just have to learn them by heart, aussibro
>>57654003
Oh jesus christ wtf.
So just to clarify
>Learn genders
>Learn the auxiliary verb for each word
>Various conjunctions
Fuck me.
>>57654250
AND I have to learn which H words take ' before them.
JUST
>>57654219
well actually i think j'hurle j'hausse, etc might come up in speech, while unlikly when writing...I can't find any logic 2bh, maybe the answer is in ethymology as it often is
French had the H like the English in the past called H aspiré but it lost its sound over time but the words stayed the same
>>57652834
Merde, je ne peut pas épeler en l'anglais! Si vous me comprends, je ne me soucie pas si elle est orthographié droit!
>je suis étudiant d'ingénierie
>personne ne me attend à épeler
>>57652834
Si becomes s' before il and ils. Fairly certain those are the only times it elides.
>anglo learning french
>>57652834
Jihadis?
>>57654250
Yeah, learning verbs is, imho, by far the hardest part of learning French for a foreigner.
>>57654250
Learn how to speak it while or before learning the grammar rules just like a child would
I hear it helps alot.
>>57654250
You forgot prepositions and their rules :)