Joyeux Noël!

Christmas is just around the corner. Joyeux Noël! as we say in French.

French people usually leave work earlier on Christmas Eve because they are going to celebrate Christmas that evening. If you were in France, you would hear Joyeux Noël! everywhere you go: from the sellers/cashiers in shops, the colleagues, the waiters at the restaurants or simply your neighbours! On Christmas day, people call their family and friends to tell them Joyeux Noël!

The 25 December is a public holiday in France. 

Interrogative sentences: les phrases interrogatives

There are different ways to ask a question. The examples given mean "Do you go to Paris?"

1. by raising the voice at the end of the sentence: Vous allez à Paris?   

2. by adding "est-ce que" to the beginning of the sentence: Est-ce vous allez à Paris?

3. by putting the verb first, then the subject: Allez-vous à Paris? (note the hyphen that is used when the subject is a pronoun).

4. by using a question word:

- Why?              =   Pourquoi?           

- How much? / How many?  =  Combien?   

- Who?  =  Qui?                      

- Which?  = Quel/Quelle/Quels/Quelles? (depending of the gender and number of the subject)

- How?  =  Comment?

- Where?  =  Où?

- What?  =  Que/Qu' ?

- When?  =  Quand?