Practice describing abilities and challenges in French
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| Do you know how to assess someone's strengths and weaknesses in French? |
| Welcome to Three Step French Practice by FrenchPod101.com. In this lesson, you'll practice using fort en and faible en to describe areas where someone is strong or weak. |
| Let's look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| Le "on." Tu es forte en vocabulaire, faible en liaison. |
| "The "on." You're strong in vocabulary, weak in linking." |
| Je vais écouter des podcasts pour m'améliorer. |
| "I'll listen to podcasts to improve." |
| es forte en |
| faible en |
| In this lesson, we're practicing the structure être + fort(s)/forte(s)/faible(s) + en to describe someone's strengths and weaknesses. |
| The adjective fort means "strong" or "good at," and it agrees with both the gender and number of the subject. The preposition en follows and introduces the subject or skill area. |
| For one person, we say fort if the subject is masculine, and forte if the subject is feminine. In the plural, it becomes forts for a masculine or mixed group, and fortes for a feminine group. |
| Faible, which means "weak" or "not very good at," stays the same for both masculine and feminine in the singular, and adds an -s in the plural to become faibles. |
| This pattern is a natural way to talk about what someone is good at or needs to improve. |
| Let's practice this grammar more in this lesson. |
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