Conversation in French:
- Marie : Excusez-moi, où sont les fruits, s’il vous plaît ?
- Employé : Les fruits sont au fond, près des légumes.
- Marie : Merci. Est-ce qu’il y a des pommes ?
- Employé : Oui, nous avons des pommes rouges et des pommes vertes.
- Marie : Je vais prendre un kilo de pommes rouges.
- Employé : Très bien, autre chose ?
- Marie : Non, merci. C’est tout.
English Translation:
- Marie: Excuse me, where are the fruits, please?
- Employee: The fruits are at the back, near the vegetables.
- Marie: Thank you. Are there any apples?
- Employee: Yes, we have red apples and green apples.
- Marie: I will take a kilo of red apples.
- Employee: Very well, anything else?
- Marie: No, thank you. That’s all.
Vocabulary Explanation:
- Excusez-moi: Excuse me.
- Formal phrase to politely get someone’s attention, from the verb excuser (to excuse).
- Les fruits: The fruits.
- Masculine plural noun: The article les is used for plural nouns.
- Singular form: un fruit.
- Au fond: At the back.
- Used to indicate location in a store or room.
- Près des légumes: Near the vegetables.
- Légumes: Masculine plural noun, meaning “vegetables.”
- Singular form: un légume.
- Des pommes: Apples.
- Feminine plural noun: Plural form of une pomme (an apple).
- Rouges: Red.
- Feminine plural adjective, agreeing with pommes (apples).
- Vertes: Green.
- Feminine plural adjective, agreeing with pommes (apples).
- Un kilo: A kilo.
- Unit of weight, masculine noun.
- C’est tout: That’s all.
- Expression used to indicate the end of a transaction.
Grammar Explanation:
- “Où sont les fruits, s’il vous plaît ?” (Where are the fruits, please?):
- Où: Interrogative word meaning “where.”
- Sont: Third person plural of être (to be), for plural subjects.
- Les fruits: Masculine plural noun for “fruits.”
- “Les fruits sont au fond, près des légumes” (The fruits are at the back, near the vegetables):
- Au fond: Prepositional phrase meaning “at the back.”
- Près de: Preposition meaning “near.”
- Des légumes: Contraction of de and les (near the vegetables).
- “Est-ce qu’il y a des pommes ?” (Are there any apples?):
- Est-ce qu’il y a: Common question form meaning “is there” or “are there.”
- Des pommes: Feminine plural noun for “apples.”
- “Je vais prendre un kilo de pommes rouges” (I will take a kilo of red apples):
- Je vais prendre: Future construction meaning “I will take.”
- Un kilo: Masculine noun meaning “a kilo.”
- De pommes rouges: Feminine plural noun with adjective rouges (red) agreeing with pommes.
- “C’est tout” (That’s all):
- C’est: Contraction of ce and est (it is).
- Tout: Pronoun meaning “all” or “everything.”
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