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    FALLOIR - IL FAUT - PRESENT TENSE LESSON GUIDE

    The verb FALLOIR is an IMPERSONAL verb. You can only use it in the IL form. In this
    lesson we will focus on the present tense, but you can use this verb in many other tenses.
    Examples from the lesson
    1. Il faut un passeport pour voyager à l’étranger.
    IL FAUT + NOUN
    Lesson Highlights
    You need a passport to travel abroad.
    2. Il faut manger pour vivre et non vivre pour manger.
    IL FAUT + INFINITIVE
    You must eat to live and not live to eat.
    3. Il faut commencer maintenant.
    IL FAUT + INFINITIVE
    We need to start now.

    Falloir  voir besoin de


    You can still use the verbs DEVOIR and AVOIR BESOIN DE to mean MUST ASTUCE DE JENNIFER
    or NEED, but you’ll sound much more French if you use FALLOIR! You can still use the verbs
    When you use the verb FALLOIR with the indirect object pronouns ME - TE DEVOIR and AVOIR BESOIN
    - LUI - NOUS - VOUS - LEUR you can totally avoid the subjunctive by DE to mean MUST or NEED, but
    following them up with an INFINITIVE.. Just remember when translating you’ll sound much more French
    your sentences to English, IL will not be the first word you translate. It will be if you use FALLOIR!
    the pronoun. English and French are just different that way. Look at the
    following examples.

    Il me faut… 1. Il me faut un nouvel appartement.


    I need… I need a new apartment.

    Il te faut… 2. Il te faut des oeufs?


    You need… Do you need eggs?

    Il lui faut… 3. Il lui faut son maillot de bain.


    He / She needs his / her swimsuit.
    He/She needs…
    4. Il lui faut ses baskets.
    He / She needs his / her sports shoes.

    Il nous faut… 5. Il nous faut une grande voiture.


    We need… We need a big car.

    Il vous faut… 6. Il vous faut trois euros.


    You need… You need three euros.

    Il leur faut… 7. Il leur faut du travail.


    They need... They need work. Your French teacher in the
    South of France

    ASTUCE DE JENNIFER ASTUCE DE JENNIFER


    When FALLOIR means TO You can only conjugate the verb
    HAVE TO be sure not to confuse FALLOIR in the IL singular form
    it with the verb AVOIR which (3rd person singular).
    means TO HAVE.
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