The Local's French grammar tips. Image: Patick Fore_Meizhi Lang via Unsplash Getting to grips with French grammar is not easy - which is why we're starting our new series offering tips and tricks for ...

Use the subjunctive when a person wants someone else to do something, eg, I want him to go home. It can also be used to express thoughts, possibility or necessity. vouloir que to want (someone to do ...

@tanehisi Only a mood in English, but it is used with dreams, doubts, wants and possibilties. It's why ppl say "if I were" instead of "was." -- Erin (Q.) Hinson (@myriare) March 1, 2013 To help with ...

A woman holds the newly printed 2016 edition of the French "Petit Larousse" dictionary, on May 18, 2015 in Paris. (Photo by ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP) When learning French, classes and the individual ...

Last week, I was talking with reader Carol Dionne of St. John about her three years of French language lessons she had taken at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church in Dyer. “I’d taken Spanish language ...