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Jake asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 1 decade ago

Help with grade 9 french HW...?

Okay I haven't taken french for 2 years(grade 6 and 7) and I did terrible in grade 8.

I'm struggling with my french homework now.

I livei n ontario btw.

It's saying things like

Puis j'aller boire de l'eau

Puis j'aller a mon casier

J'ai oublie mon livre/cahier chez moi

What's going on here?!?!

Like when it says j'aller, how am I supposed to know what this means? Is it some verb conjugation or something? The same with l'eau, like how am i supposed to determine what this means? Please link me to some article or something that will help me learn french because I can't fail this course, I don't want people to just give me answers from google translate, I actually want to learn what's going on here. I dont know how to translate any of this by mself.

I checked out google.com/translate and it said something like "I went to go drink some water" and I want to know how I"m supposed to determine this

Update:

I need to translate these to english.

I'm so confused on how the rules of these things.

How do I determine l'eau is water?

How do I determine what j'aller means?

How do i determine what anything means in this language :(

Update 2:

If anyone is willing to teach me thorugh an IM or email or a chat room i'd be more than glad to accept... I'm really struggling thorugh these basic things because I do not know the rules here.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    "Puis j'aller boire de l'eau" is not correct. I assume it's "Puis-je aller boire de l'eau?" which mean "May i go get some water?" or "May i go drink some water?"

    The second sentence: "Puis-je aller a mon casier?" must be the correct form and means "May i go to my locker?"

    3rd: "J'ai oublié mon livre/cahier chez moi"

    "I've forgotten my book/notebook at home"

    The way to explain that for is the same as the English, instead of saying "i have forgotten ....." which is " je ai oublié .... we say "i've forgotten ..." "j'ai oublié". However, 'i've [forgotten]' is correct in english, but french we never say "je ai [oublié]". it's always "j'ai"

    You've is t'as, you have=tu as both can be said and both are correct. he's= il a, he is=il a ... i can never be il'a as you can see.

    when it come to "eau" it means water. the water= l'eau. in french "de l'eau" is used very often. "a l'eau" and " dans l'eau" are also used, but not as often as "de l'eau". i want some water" "je veux de l'eau". There is something in the water= il y a quelque chose dans l'eau. ... L'eau= La eau

    "La" is feminine in French we say "Le cahier= the notebook" for example. "Le" is masculine. Well in English you just say "The" for everything. It's different in French.

    Source(s): not native sorry, but i was taught french
  • 1 decade ago

    "Puis-je aller..." =May I go... It is inversion of "je peux aller" to make it a question. Aller is not conjugated because it follows a from of pouvoir ("to be able to"). "boire" (to drink) is also in the infinitive because it follows an infinitive verb and not a subject.

    When you do inversion with je peux, you need a hyphen and you don't do the contraction of je aller.

    de l'eau means "some water". Remember that nouns are preceded by either un, une, de, des, le, la, les or l'. That means that whenever you see one of those before a noun, that all you have to do is look up what the word that follows means. In this case that is "eau" which means water.

  • 1 decade ago

    What do you need to do in your homework ?

    do you have to explain the sentence or to translate in English ?

    the 1st french sentence is not correct :

    it's not Puis j'aller but Puis-je aller

    the translation from google is wrong, your 1st sentence means "May I drink some water" or " May I go and drink some water" - it's difficult to translate without the meaning of the all sentences.

    I really want to help you, but I don't how. let me know and I will do my best

    Source(s): I'm french
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Probably. But I'd expect even more if the high school you'll be going to is larger than the middle school you're at. I mean, since there will be more students in general. But some may mature over the summer, and maybe there will be a smaller ratio of the immature ones :)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I would suggest buying a french dictionary or revision guide. They will help with phrasing and vocab. What you have written translates too:

    Then i went to drink some water

    Then i went to my locker

    I used my book at home

    You could use gcse bitesize, but it's not ideal you need some sort of book if you want to learn it properly.

  • 1 decade ago

    j'aller? are you sure it doesn't say "j'allais"? cause j'aller doesn't mean anything (well, it means "i going" which is just plain ghetto)

    PLEASE don't use google translate! it's usually wrong about everything =/

    1. then i'm going to drink water

    2. then i'm going to my locker

    3. i forgot my book/textbook at my house

    have a nice day.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think you're supposed to conjugate the verbs that are 'aller'

    Puis je suis allé...

    J'ai oublié...

    Source(s): I'm from quebec...
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