Rules & Examples for using the French liaison
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 27. 04. 2020
- La liaison is one of the trickiest parts of French pronunciation. Here are the rules for using it.
đŸ Read, save and/or print the full written lesson here: www.commeunefrancaise.com/blo...
French pronunciation can be strange at times, and there are weird rules that you donât necessarily have in English. For example, la liaison. Itâs everywhere in spoken French, but it can be hard to understand when to use it (and when itâs not allowed).
Iâm here to help you understand the rules of using (or not using) la liaison, with some examples, so you can get better at speaking real French.
With love from Grenoble, France.
GĂ©raldine
đŸ Read, save and/or print the full written lesson here: www.commeunefrancaise.com/blog/la-liaison
Perfect, thank you so much GĂ©raldine
This is almost a class in itself, very generous of you Ă Geraldine. Merci
Happy to liked it, Chezamme.
Yet brief and concise. Excellent work from CommeUneFrançaise.
Thanks, I didnât know about the âTâ in grand apartment
Yes, the D becomes a [T] sound in la liaison.
bonjour, it should be " grand appartement ".
Awesome! Mil gracias, Geraldine! All this information in one clear lesson!
Merci madame......
GĂ©raldine, thank you so much. You are absolutely awesome!
Thank you for explaining this so well !!!!!!
Geraldine, . I struggle a lot trying to learn and understand the grammar rules, understanding fast speaking native French speakers and word pronunciation, but I am learning and improving, slowly! Like so many of your lessons, How to use âLa Liaisonâ properly is outstanding! Your lessons are valuable and very effective. Thank you!
thank you for still making such great informative videos during this time
Thank you very much, Merci Beaucoup Geraldine!
You're welcome, Raul.
thank you so much for your generosity. â€ïž
Thank you so much for your video! So far in my studies when to, and when not to use the liason has been the most confusing part of French!
Excellent comme toujours. Merci GĂ©raldine !
Merci Michael !
Thank you for this clear, concise video. Very helpful :)
Merci mille fois pour cette leçon inestimable !
Very helpful! Merci beaucoup.
Wow!!!! This explains sooooo much!
Bravo GĂ©raldine, quelle super
vidéo, merci beaucoup !!
Ravie que ça te plaise, Barbara.
J'ai fini mon cours et je me sens pas sûr quand faire les liaisons!
J'ai cherché des infos il y a quelques semaines et ton vidéo était tout ce que je voulais!
Merci!
Very helpful, thanks!
ChĂšre GĂ©raldine, une petite leçon sur le mot "dĂ©jĂ " serait la bienvenue đ
Hi Geraldine! Your videos are really great! So well explained. You really take a lot of trouble to help learners :) A request...one of the toughest things for English speakers is to figure out what letters are silent in French. Learning this over time by listening to audio is really slow. Please could you do a video on that. Merci beaucoup!
Merci Géraldine! Je viens de commencer à regarder vos vidéos, qui sont trÚs utiles, et j'espérais que vous feriez une leçon au sujet des liaisons!
Tes priÚres ont été exaucées, Mierne. :)
This is way easier to understand than the wikipedia explanation, thanks! ;)
I had no idea until I watched a video yesterday and this video today that using liaison with ĂȘtre makes you sound posh and, according to the video I watched yesterday, it signals to French people that you don't really know the language that well. I had no idea! I've been learning French for about a year now and I've had many conversations with French people, both friends and teachers and none of them have ever told me that it sounds kind of unnatural or posh! The thing is I've been doing it for so long now that it feels natural and not like something I'll be able to stop doing very easily đŹ
Merci, merci beacoup . C'est interessant!
Vous etes adorable GĂ©raldine! When you say consonant,the accent (in English) is on the first syllable. CONsonant.
Merci pour toutes les leçons!â€đ
You're welcome, John. Thanks for the tip!
Very versatile very useful ,merci boucoup
Merci beaucoup đđ»
Merci, madam.
Merci GĂ©raldine! I have an opinion that you may make a intermediate / advanced liaison lessons, like reading French video news / books,,, thanks!
this video is precious tbh
Merci beaucoup GĂ©raldine! C'est trĂšs utile; Maintenant, j'apprend le portugais et il y a aussi les liaisons. La prononciation est la part plus difficile des langues romances (hormis d'espagnol). Dans lâĂ©cole, nous avons apprend plusieurs des rĂšgles grammaticales mais je me ne souviens pas une leçon sĂ»r les rĂšgles de la prononciation! Bonne journĂ©e!
Bravo C Sadler!
Hi, I love your channel and have just subscribed. I've always wanted to know when and how to liaise in French. After watching this particular video, I know a lot more but still not 100%. For example, at time 3:50 in this video "Je vis en Amerique", why there's no liaison between Je / vis? Is it because of the rule "After the verb of singular person (je, tu, il/elle )"? You also mentioned about the "optional" cases where you have the choice. Interesting!
There's no liaison between "je" and "vis" because "je" doesn't end in a consonant and "vis" starts with one. There's no sound from "je" to hang onto the start of "vis"; it's already fully pronounced.
If you're talking about "vis" and "en", then it's because of rule 4 of the (not strictly 5:24) forbidden liaisons @ 5:41.
Salut GĂ©raldine ! Do you have a tutorial regarding le e choix ?
Super!
Dear
GĂ©raldine, perhaps you should know that the English word "adjective" has a stress on the first syllable)... and thanks for great videos!
Je suis débutante un français..... Been learning online and you make my online class alot fun and easy. I enjoyed this class alot. So what's your advice on how to speak french confidently... Thank you
Amazing! Thank you ;^)
Is "Viens avec moi" considered #4 from the forbidden conditions? Merci.
In some verbs you can't tell the difference between third person plural and third person singular pronunciation EXCEPT for the presence of the liason of the s in the plural ils/elles.
Oh *Géraldine,* comme toujours, arrive une autre chouette vidéo merveilleuse qui est à la fois trÚs intéressante et bien utile, en vrai avec des choses de ce que j'en avais assez besoin - je dois bien sûr avouer, moi! Du coup, voici en plus: merci carrément [ ! ] pour les infos - et, de vos enseignements tant inestimables quoi...!!
Ravie que ça te plaise, Alexys.
@@Commeunefrancaise Bah, j'adore en vrai; et donc encore une fois, *GĂ©raldine,* je te remercie autant: avec beaucoup de reconnaissance - et, des carrĂ©ment meilleurs vĆux en fait ({; D ...!
@@Commeunefrancaise ...et j'suis trÚs contente, au fait, à comprendre qu'on peut se tutoyer alors, nous; pour quelque raison en vrai j'ne suis jamais précisément sûre là -dessus ça, avec quelqu'un ({: D ...!
TrĂšs intĂ©ressant, mĂȘme pour un français ! Je me suis rendu compte que je prononce souvent les liaisons facultatives. Je prĂ©fĂšre quand le son de la langue est doux et liĂ©.
Je suis d'accord.
Bonjour GĂ©realdine. J'aimerais savoir si on peut dire ''J'ai de petites oreilles''? Si je me trompe pas, on dit 'de beaux appartement' et pas 'des beaux appartement'. Merci!
Thank you, this was very helpful! I just need to confirm: When using expressions with "je suis", I can therefore choose whether I want a liaison or not? Like in "Je suis étudiante de médicine"?
French guy here. This liaison is optional.
Cette vidéo es[t e]xcellente.
How would one use la liaison in phrases like this:
Nous ne savons pas oĂč ils sont.
Comment allons-nous faire?
I figured since the words âhow & notâ can be a noun, I wouldnât say it. It feels right that way. But then I wonder are words like âhow & notâ considered singular? It seems like yes to me but I am still unsure.
By the way thank you so much for this video. Itâs helped me tremendously đ€
What about the liaison with a word ending in R? As is « ne toucher au pommierâ? Oui ou non?
I thought we used de before an adjective leading into a noun. De petites oreilles, or des petites oreilles?
Merci GĂ©raldine - non plus de confusion avec la liaison... » Je vis [interdit] en [permis] Allemagne... « ou » Les [interdit] halles « DrĂŽle de langage, mais je l'adore â€ïž
Happy to help, Martin. You can say "je vis Zen Allemagne" this one is optional.
3:47
Sorry,is there liason between est and un in the sentence il est un grand ami?
Hello! Thank you for the video!
What confuses me in liaison are words starting with the letter h. Are there rules for when to liaison when it comes to words starting with letter h?
Yes, it depends on whether the H is "muet" or "aspiré". Here's a list: www.aidenet.eu/grammaire01ac.htm
Comme une Française merci!
@@lolaeddaloo3a The real question is which words begin with an h aspirĂ© and which ones with an h muet. To that my friend, you will have to learn it by heart, there is no rule on this one đ
Cyrus Chang you donât say! đ©đ
Donc, on dit "je vis en Amerique" sans la liasion entre "vis" et "en" parce que "vis" est un verbe singulier, c'est correct?
You forgot the 'h aspiré' as an exception for making a 'liaison' ('mes haches') and obligation to shift 'ma' 'ta' 'sa' to 'mon' 'ton' 'son' in order to make a 'liaison' ('ma fille' but 'mon_adorable fille' or 'mon_histoire' although 'histoire' is feminine and because the h is 'muet').
...in that respect it should be pointed out that the French hates hiatuses (two successive voyelles) so that 'le' 'la' 'de' become 'l'' and d' (joindre l'utile à l'agréable) so that usually it is better to make a 'liaison' if you may.
3:14
why is it not
j'ai de petites oreilles? (i thought des should be changed to de when there is a preceding adjective)
The "des - to - de" rule is losing ground in modern French, and fewer and fewer people apply it. Many native speakers would say "des petites oreilles" without giving it a second thought. I'm a French teacher and I always tell my students that they should at least recognize the "de" rule, but that they don't have to produce it.
@@jakethesnake95 thanks đ
What about tous? Sometimes it is with and sometimes without liaison :(
Can you give an example where there's no liaison ?
You might also be interested in another lesson from GĂ©raldine, about "tout" (and "tous"):
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Is there a liaison with "pas encore" ?
Yes.
But honestly, you can skip it. It clearly depends on the situation and who is telling it. Sometimes the liaison will be pronounced, sometimes not...
Good to know to not use liaison with "et"
Je veux que vous fasse un cours de lâarticle dĂ©finie et indĂ©finie de mĂȘme maniĂšre - court et informatif.
En français on dit "je voudrais", on ne dit pas "je veux", par politesse.
@@christianc9894
Merci beaucoup pour votre conseil.
Jâai une question de « plus que jamais ».
Certains prononcent « s » de « plus ».
Dâautres nâen prononcent.
Quel est correct?
La majorité des français disent plus avec le S. Mais "plus jamais" on ne prononce pas le S. C'est illogique mais c'est ainsi.
Dans la phrase "Elle n'est pas italienne", on fait la liaison?
both work.
Quiero escucharte hablar español!.
What about pas encore?
It depends on the context.
Most people don't use it. I was told if you use the liason in every case it sounds too "thick" (overdone, syrupy).
As a Chinese, I've always been told that Chinese tones are difficult. Well, from now on, my response can be, "do you think the Chinese tones are hard? Try French liaison."
Hablas Español?
This looks complicated. I don't think it's something you need to study. It's something you pick up automatically by learning how to speak french. I'm a native french speaker. No native speaker "studies" this. It's just the correct way to speak. Watching the video, it looks more complicated than it is.
J'ai de petites oreilles (petites is adjective so you use "de") Like : salle de jeux et non pas salle des jeux
Piece of Cake compared to Spanish!đ
si señor.
Liaisons dangereuses!
Woah, I didnât know your mom was Mexican. You speak Spanish too?
Si, hablo español.
Comme une Française QuĂ© chidođesto sĂ que no me lo esperaba
Wait! You're half Mexican!? Do you speak Spanish? đđ€
si.
J'ai des petites oreilles it is better to say J'ai DE petites oreilles.
Mistake: je vis Zen Namérique.
Bonjour Marc, you can say "je vis Zen" and "je vis en" . Here, both work.
You are teaching great but too fast....
Pause/rewind
Mistake. Erreur. In one of your examples: tu vis en Amérique. You forgot the liaison between vis and en. Tu vis Zen Namérique
Elle n'est pas facultative, cette liaison-là ? Je sais déjà que la deuxiÚme est obligatoire, mais qu'en est-il de la premiÚre ?