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0:00How was to try, to try, related to essay in English?
0:07Essayer.
0:08E-S-S-A-Y-E-R, essayer.
0:12And I try, I'm trying?
0:16J'essaye.
0:17J'essaye, we get J apostrophe essay, j'essaye.
0:22Do you remember how was to eat?
0:26Manger.
0:26Good, manger.
0:28I'm trying to eat.
0:30So in French we say, I'm trying of to eat, I'm attempting of to eat.
0:37So I'm trying to eat.
0:39J'essaye de manger.
0:43Very good, j'essaye de manger.
0:46So the difference between essayer and essay, like in j'essaye, we can apply to
0:53other verbs too.
0:54So we saw how the IR, or the E for example on the verb, is its ending.
1:00And we saw how verbs can end in three ways in their true form, no?
1:04IR, like most verbs, fermer, to open, aller, to go, essayer, to try.
1:11IR, I-R, like voir, finir, and A-I, like in attendre, to wait.
1:18For those verbs ending in IR, which is the great majority of our verbs, no?
1:24To get the I, the he, or the she form, from the to form of the verb, to get for
1:29example, I eat, he eats, she eats, from to eat.
1:34I confirm, she confirms, he confirms, from to confirm, we just remove the
1:41ending, our E ending, the thing that makes it to confirm.
1:45So we get, je confirme, il, elle confirme.
1:51But to make sure we hear that final consonant, we finish with an E in writing.
1:57So we get, je confirme.
2:00And to the IR, we're just removing the E ending from confirmer.
2:05Je confirme.
2:06I confirm it.
2:10Je le confirme.
2:13Je le confirme.
2:15Very good.
2:16So we have confirmer, to confirm, it's not to anymore, so we're just
2:21pronouncing it without that E ending.
2:24Confirmer, je confirme.
2:27What was to eat, again?
2:32Manger.
2:33Manger.
2:34We have AM giving us on manger.
2:36So this is to eat, we know it's to eat because it ends ER.
2:42Manger.
2:42How would you say, I eat?
2:46Je mange.
2:49So we just pronounce it without the ER ending.
2:52We write it, MANGE, to make sure that we pronounce that G, no?
2:58But to the IR, it's manger, without the E ending.
3:02Je mange.
3:02How would you say, I can eat, I am able to eat?
3:09Je peux manger.
3:12Here it's I am able to eat, no?
3:18Je peux manger.
3:22Very good.
3:24And we do the same to get the he and she form from the to form of these ER
3:29verbs as well.
3:30We can just pronounce them without this ER ending.
3:33So how would you say, he eats or he's eating?
3:38Il mange.
3:41Good.
3:42So that's spelled M-A-N-G-E, but to the IR, we're just losing the ending from
3:46manger.
3:48Il mange.
3:49He's not eating, he doesn't eat.
3:53Il ne mange pas.
3:57Very good.
3:58Il ne mange pas.
3:59And in spoken French, we'll often also hear this without the ne.
4:03Il mange pas.
4:05Or just a ne sound.
4:07So like an N sound, il, you might hear as well.
4:10Il mange pas.
4:11She eats, she's eating.
4:15Elle mange.
4:17Elle mange.
4:18She doesn't eat, she's not eating.
4:22Elle ne mange pas.
4:25Elle ne mange pas.
4:26Elle mange pas.
4:27And you know, various variations between that.
4:31Elle ne mange pas, for example.
4:33So we've spoken about how our negation has two parts in French.
4:38Ne, pas.
4:39Even though one of those parts, the ne, might not be pronounced in spoken
4:44French.
4:44The second part, pas, here, is always pronounced, but it isn't fixed.
4:50We can change it for different negative meanings.
4:53So, not, or don't, no, not, don't, that's our standard negative meaning, let's
5:00say.
5:00And we use pas, P-A-S, for this.
5:03But we might also want to say, not a thing, nothing, not anything.
5:08This is a different negative meaning.
5:11And for this, instead of ne and pas, we have ne and rien, spelt R-I-E-N, rien.
5:19Rien.
5:19And it works in exactly the same way.
5:22Rien goes where pas usually goes.
5:26So if you want to say, she doesn't eat anything.
5:31Elle ne mange rien.
5:35Very good.
5:36Elle ne mange rien.
5:38So this is a slightly different negative meaning, no, to not.
5:43This isn't not, but not anything, nothing.
5:46Elle ne mange rien.
5:48He doesn't eat anything.
5:51Il ne mange rien.
5:55Very good.
5:56Il ne mange rien.
5:58And also with this ne rien negative structure, we can still leave out the ne in
6:05spoken French.
6:06Il mange rien.
6:08Of course, rien might be a familiar word from the famous song, Je ne regrette
6:15rien.
6:16So what does that mean?
6:18Je ne regrette rien.
6:20Je ne regrette rien.
6:26I don't regret anything.
6:30I don't regret anything.
6:31Good.
6:32So what would the verb to regret be if we have je regrette, to regret?
6:41Regretter.
6:43Regretter.
6:45And in regret, we have R-I occurring twice.
6:50We have R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
6:54-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
6:54-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:03-R-R
7:06-R-R
7:16-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:19-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:19-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:19-R R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:21-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:23-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:32-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:35-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:39-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
7:46-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R
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