French Lesson Confident Conversation is Chapter 26 and is designed to give you loads of useful French phrases, vocab and verbs to fast track your confidence in French conversation – please ensure you also get a copy of the full audiobook version of ALL these lessons to maximise your learning, by clicking HERE
Useful French phrases for French Lesson Confident Conversation
“to turn something around”: « transformer quelque chose »
“He is going to turn the company around in no time.”
« Il va transformer l’entreprise en un rien de temps. »
“the company”: « l’entreprise »
“to turn something around”: « transformer »
Again, the English is using a very vivid image, “turn around”, but the French is using an abstract concept, “to transform”: « transformer ».
“in no time”: « en un rien de temps ».
The French literally says “in nothing of a time”: « en un rien de temps ».
French Grammar point: Short-term future
“He is going to turn”: “il va transformer”.
So this is a short-term future. It is used to describe future events in the near future, and in a very simple way.
So this is the first kind of future that you need to learn, and it works exactly like in English.
In English you would say “I am going to be” and the French is « je vais être ». The only difference is you use “am going”, the present perfect in English, which doesn’t exist in French.
So it’s only going to be one word « je vais » in present, and then you add the infinitive “TO BE”, « ETRE »:
ALLER ETRE (TO BE GOING TO BE): present
I am going to be: Je vais être
You are going to be: Tu vas être
He/she is going to be: Il/Elle va être
We are going to be: Nous allons être
You are going to be: Vous allez être
They are going to be: Ils/Elles vont être
French Lesson Confident Conversation
Let’s use another verb “TO TAKE”: « PRENDRE »
I am going to take: Je vais prendre
You are going to take: Tu vas prendre
He/She is going to take: Il/Elle va prendre
We are going to take: Nous allons prendre
You are going to take: Vous allez prendre
They are going to take: Ils/Elles vont prendre
Here is the full sentence again:
“He is going to turn the company around in no time.”
« Il va transformer l’entreprise en un rien de temps. »
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