French for English speakers Bakery · Lesson 0

Eating

Practical French for eating habits — Est-ce que tu manges des légumes ? (Do you eat vegetables?) — practice the verb manger and the negative ne ... jamais (never).

Conversation

  1. Yaya Yaya

    Est-ce que tu manges des légumes au déjeuner ou au dîner ?

    Do you have vegetables for lunch and dinner?

    Tip: <au> = to the, this is used for when talking about dinner

  2. Magicat Magicat

    NON ! je suis chat. Je ne mange jamais de légumes.

    NO! I am a cat. I never have vegetables.

    Tip: <ne .. jamais> = means never, and functions like <ne...pas> and <ne .. que>

  3. Yaya Yaya

    Que manges-tu alors ?

    What do you eat then?

    Tip: <manges-tu> = this is known as inversion. It is one of the ways to form a question in French.

  4. Magicat Magicat

    J'achète de la viande ou du poisson au restaurant universitaire.

    I buy meat or fish at the university canteen.

    Tip: when talking about uncountable nouns, you need to use <de>

Common questions

Quick answers about this lesson's grammar and vocabulary.

How do you say 'do you eat ...?' in French?

Est-ce que tu manges ...? — the standard question form with tu (informal). For vous (formal/plural): Est-ce que vous mangez ...?

What does ne ... jamais mean?

'Never' — a two-part negation surrounding the verb. Je ne mange jamais de légumes = 'I never eat vegetables'. In casual speech, the ne is often dropped.

Lunch and dinner in French?

Le déjeuner (lunch), le dîner (dinner). In some regions (Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec), le dîner means lunch and le souper means dinner.

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