Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Sur la route il y a un chat

Sur la route il y a un chat. C'est le chat lutteur sumo. Il est tout seul. Devant lui, il y a un coucher de soleil. C'est beau et romantique. // On the road there is a cat. It is the sumo wrestler cat. He is alone. In front of him, there is sunset. It is beautiful and romantic.

Oops. I've just noticed a missing "y" in the first phrase. But never mind.

Today, we started on questions and how to pose them,  but we got sidetracked by the same grammatical feature that I already mentioned before. Namely, that the construction "C'est" is used to answer "who?" question, and a direct translation of  something like "He is a serious man" (Il est un homme sérieux) must not be used. So you answer "who" question with "c'est" and you can describe with "Il(elle) est +adjective" construction, i.e. "He(she) is beautiful, serious, bookish, whateverish".

Incidentally, neuter grammatical gender finally came up and it doesn't exist anymore. "C'est" is one of the remnants of it.

 I drew much busier variation of the theme originally.  One of these where you look at it and think "I should have stopped five minuted ago". Above is the second take.