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L'expression du temps

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French English
Après-demain The day after tomorrow
Aujourd’hui Today
Avant-hier The day before yesterday
Dans deux jours In two days
Demain Tomorrow
Hier Yesterday
Hier soir Last night/yesterday evening
Il y a une minute One minute ago
L’après-midi The afternoon/in the afternoon
La nuit The night
La semaine The week
La semaine dernière Last week
La semaine prochaine Next week
Le jour The day
Le matin The morning/in the morning
Le mois A month
Le mois dernier Last month
Le mois prochain Next month
Le soir The evening/in the evening
Tous les jours Every day
Toute la journée The whole day
Une année/un an A year
Une heure One hour
Une minute One minute
Une seconde One second

What is it?

Accents only appear above vowels in French. Most of the time accents do not change the pronunciation of the vowel. When the accent doesn’t change the pronunciation of the vowel, it has different uses. For example, it can replace a letter, or help us distinguish between two words with the same spelling. The accents will change the pronunciation of the vowel “e” only.

Notes

“Dans” means “in” and “il y a” means “ago” when they are used with time expressions.

“Après-midi” has both gender, feminine and masculine and both are perfectly correct even if the French Academy seems to prefer its masculine form.

“Tous les”(m/p) and “toutes les” (f/p) mean “every.” However, “tout le” (m), and “toute la” (f) mean “the whole.” They can be used with other time expressions.

The difference between “an” and “année”

“An” is usually preceded by a number, and “année” by a word indicating a quantity but not by a number. Except, “une” that is also the word for “a.”

 

The difference between “jour” and “journée”

“Jour” means “day” and it includes 24 hours. “Journée” also means “day”, but it only includes the hours of the day when you are active. So not the hours when you sleep.

 

The difference between “soir” and “soirée”

“Soir” means “evening” and it includes the hours from 6 pm to 12 am. “Soirée” means “evening” too, but it only includes the hours of the evening when you are active. So not the hours when you sleep.

 

The difference between “matin” and “matinée”

“Matin” means “morning” and it includes the hours from 12 am to 12 pm. “Matinée” means “morning” too, but it only includes the hours of the morning when you are active. So not the hours when you sleep. “Matinée” is usually more used with the past tenses.

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