Skill 10 · Lexicons

Languages & quel/quelle

Asking what languages someone speaks, and the agreement system that makes it work. Quel is the interrogative adjective for "what / which" — and like every adjective in French, it agrees with its noun.

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Three things to internalise. One: quel/quelle/quels/quelles is the question word for "what" or "which" before a noun. It has FOUR forms because it agrees with the noun in gender AND number — exactly like nationality adjectives. Two: parler is a regular -er verb. The endings are mostly silent in spoken French (je parle, tu parles, il parle, ils parlent all sound the same — /paʁl/), so spelling is what tells them apart. Three: language names are LOWERCASE (français, anglais, chinois) and DON'T take articles after parler. So je parle français, never je parle le français, and never je parle Français.

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