Accents and the cedilla
CEFR A1 · part 1
edumaterial's parts within the level. The European framework does not subdivide them.
Gender that does not match your languageChoosing le or la for nouns whose gender does not match your own language.Present tense of -er verbs, with its subjectConjugating the present tense and never dropping the subject pronoun.Negating with ne … pasPlacing both halves of the negation around the verb, and not doubling it.Être and avoir, and telling your ageConjugating être and avoir in the present, and using avoir where French requires it…The plural you cannot hearMarking the plural where it shows —the article and the written -s— even though you…Numbers from 70 to 99Reading and writing the numbers from 70 to 99, which French builds by adding: 70 =…The rule, in three lines
In French an accent does not show stress: it changes the sound or tells two words apart. é is closed (café), è and ê are open (père, fête), and ç sounds /s/ before a, o, u (garçon).
The usual slip. Writing French with no accents at all, or putting é everywhere. Tres and très are different words.
Why it catches you out. English uses no accents at all, so you drop them without noticing. But etudiant is simply misspelled, and ou / où are two different words.