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0:00to try or to attempt in french is essayer essayer essayer this is related to
0:09essay an essay is a trial or an attempt it's actually just like essay with the
0:15er ending e s s a y e r and we have e with a double consonant so we get
0:21an s sound even though we don't have a written accent that's essay essayer no
0:25because we have e s s essayer to try to attempt so essayer is to try
0:35and i try or i'm trying is j'essaye so we have je and essay contracting so we
0:43get j apostrophe essay j'essaye so we hear the e of essay rather than the e of
0:50je je essay j'essaye i try i'm trying if you want to say i'm trying to like i'm
0:57trying to find the keys in french we'll say i'm trying off i'm attempting off
1:02we'll use the off in french so the key the key was la clé we saw no to lock to
1:12close by key so how would you say i'm trying to find the keys i'm trying i'm
1:18attempting off to find the keys the
1:23keys i'm
1:35trying to find my car i'm trying to find my car yes
1:44very good but i'm still hitting je rather than je remember we have j apostrophe
1:53essay j'essaye j'essaye de trouver ma voiture so with essayer to try when we
2:03connect this with another i'm trying to find we connect that with de j'essaye
2:10de trouver the car key if you want to say the car key in french you will just
2:17say the key of the car and clé is feminine la clé so how that be the car key
2:24the key of the car la clé de la voiture la clé de
2:34la voiture i'm trying to find the car key j'essaye de trouver
2:44la clé de la voiture very good j'essaye de trouver la clé de la voiture
2:54and the y of essay when we say j'essaye can also be written as an i which gives
3:02us an ai combination no which gives us an e sound in french so other than j
3:09'essaye we could also hear j'essaye this verb has two forms i try j'essaye j
3:15'essaye both exist so we have trouver to find and to look for or to search was
3:26very good can you look for my car key can you look for the key of my car can
3:36you
3:48try to find my car key can you try to find the key of my car so can you try
3:57are you able to try la clé
4:06de ma voiture very good peut-tu essayer de trouver la clé de ma
4:15voiture clé is where we get clef from in english by the way in music like the
4:21treble clef is the treble key the word for where in french where in french is
4:29oh you is the word for is is est how does
4:39that sound est less than the t don't sound so how would you say where is the
4:47car key where is the key of the car ou est la clé de la voiture
4:56where is my car key where is the key of my car ou
5:08est la clé de ma voiture if you
5:18want to say where is it and you mean the car key where is it then you will have
5:23to think about what gender clé is because in french you will say where is he
5:28where is she even if you're talking about things you won't say where is it you
5:33will say where is he where is she so how was the key so how would you say where
5:43is it where is she if you're talking about the key good
5:53but a and l give us a liaison the est that we have for a the t comes back out
6:01when we follow it with l where is she or where is it referring to a feminine
6:10thing like la clé in spoken french it's very common to hear the question word
6:17on the end on the end of the question phrase so we can avoid this liaison of we
6:23can avoid that all together by just saying she is where by putting the question
6:30word on the end this is very common in spoken french and it's informal familiar
6:35so how would you do that she is where it is where referring to a feminine thing
6:46he is where but if you were to do that with the inversion where is he how
6:56would that sound good and what happens when we put il after f we
7:07will hear the t of est which is otherwise silent no il est où où est-il so où
7:15est-il could mean where is he or where is it no referring to a masculine thing
7:20what was what was i can and can i
7:30good and what happened to get so stuck together
7:40and we get is how
7:53would you say am i am i how would you say where am i where am i
8:04oh and as i mentioned you can avoid this inversion in french and you can just
8:12say i am where with the question word on the end i am where i
8:23am where and it doesn't sound as emphatic as it does in english now i am where
8:29it sounds just french and this
8:39is spelled yes it doesn't have the final t like the air of you are where are
8:48you and without the contraction if you were to just say you are where
9:02and this two and a can also contract together we can get t apostrophe es so
9:10you will hear this tell you are where what was of if
9:21you were to say of where from where from and where they would also contract
9:28together and we get the apostrophe or you from where do do how would you say
9:36where are you from or in french from where are you from where are you french
9:43from where are you from where are you
9:51do and you could also say you are from where you are from where do
10:02or do with the two contractions no a contraction of two and a t apostrophe es
10:11and do a contraction of the and o the apostrophe or you they do they do you are
10:19from where the word for here in french here is you see you see you see how
10:27would you say i'm from here i'm from here i am from here very good
10:37so you found the pattern no that followed by a vowel will contract very
10:46good how would you say i'm not from here yes
10:56very good and what was you are again you are good
11:06and it was spelled yes only yes aren't you from here or just you are not from
11:13here with a question tone of voice you are not from here very
11:25good aren't you from here so no and o contracts together and that's about n
11:34apostrophe es so the e that we hear is the e of rather than the e of so these
11:42words we are seeing is for you are all actually
11:52come from the verb to be to be this is all from to be is um uh we don't usually
11:59say no i be but he is i am you are rather than you be so that's all from to
12:08be
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