🇫🇷 Common French verbs that are followed by à - French verbs and prepositions 🗣

'Y' stands for 'it' but only because the object ie régime has been referenced earlier.

Thank you for the videos. I suspect that this channel will become big in terms of subscribers. Clear, precise and to the point. Very logical the way you explain it. Merci!

Please keep this up. as your intention says native speakers have a hard time to understand our struggle. ;-)

You have been so helpful in explaining French. I have been to France many times and try to speak and do quite well, but find it very difficult to comprehend spoken French. Your comments about not being afraid to try are very helpful. Thank you.

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Thank you so much for this video it has helped me lots!

Thank you so much for this video. This is something I really struggle with. I think when I started learning French (about 5 years ago!) the importance of these little à and de words was overlooked. Or maybe someone did explain it to me and i didn't appreciate how significant they were! I've realised you've used the perfect sentence for me to understand. You've said J'apprends à parler plus courrament. I think originally I thought the à in this sentence was part of parler, as if parler means 'to speak to,' so I thought it was 'à parler,' but in fact the à goes with apprendre. It's taken me a long time to work this out. This is because recently I've had to work out when to use the pronouns 'y' and 'en' which are also related to this, aren't they? To be honest I think the subjunctive is a doddle compared to this! I hope this makes sense?!

The y is for "it". Referring back to the diet or whatever it was you were talking about. "I am on it"

You’re wonderful. ..clear and direct. And so sweet!

Un autre bon vidéo!! Merci beaucoup Alex 😊 🙏

You’re terrific , clear and direct And very sweet!

Thanks! Just what I needed.

I like your positive energy very much!! Keep up the good work!!!

shouted "THANK YOU" at my laptop screen when i saw this :)

Thanks very much!!!

Nice one Alex, I almost felt that had been made especially for me after we spoke about this very subject on a Facebook page last week. You are absolutely right forget the long lists and stick to the most used verbs. I am keeping my fingers crossed that you will follow this up with a video of verbs that take "de" regards Julian.

As a nice wrap and review it would be great if you could list the verbs under the video or at the end of it (even better with thumbnails). But many thanks for this helpful video!

Hey champ , comment vas tu? Pouvez- vous faire une vidéo sur ce, ça,cela,ceci ?

Sorry for this longish response. It's curious how English speakers use "to spend time with someone". When I was young and living in the country they would often "pass the time with someone". That's the French way too. I have seen several lists of these verbs followed by à verb-infinitive. I decided to search my dictionaries to see how the French utilize à, de, or other prepositions following a verb. I haven't quite finished since life intervenes, but I noticed that those two are far and away most prevalent. They are also sometimes to be used in a particular order when there are two objects, but sometimes they might be used in either order (for the same purposes). Thankfully, it seems clear they are used more-or-less as the english "to" or "of/from". So, you would throw something to someone becomes «jeter qqch à qqun» or with some verbs «verbe à qqun de qqch.» Specifically focusing on -- verbe à infinitif -- shortens the list a lot. I haven't sorted those out yet (and my dictionaries are probably far from complete), but any list you find on the internet is probably incomplete and yet would cover the most common ones. The lists I've seen are probably 30 or so verbs. This video has 8, an even shorter list which is easy for anyone to learn.

The y represents the new diet?