At the Supermarket

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?):
    • : 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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