Wild and farm animals
The course has le chien, le chat, la vache, le cheval, l'oiseau, la souris and le lapin. This lesson adds the ones a French child learns next.
| l'ours | the bear | the final -s is silent, singular and plural alike |
| le lion | the lion | |
| le singe | the monkey | |
| l'éléphant | the elephant | |
| la chèvre | the goat | |
| la tortue | the tortoise, the turtle | one word for both |
| l'âne | the donkey | |
| le renard | the fox |
l'ours never changes
Nouns already ending in -s take no plural mark: un ours, deux ours. You met this at L80 with le bras.
| We saw a bear in the forest. | Nous avons vu un ours dans la forêt. |
l'herbe is uncountable
l'herbe is grass as a mass — you say de l'herbe, never une herbe for a lawn. It is feminine, which the elided article hides.
Les vaches mangent de l'herbe.
Seeing an animal do something
This lesson sits right after the perception construction, and it is the natural way to talk about animals:
J'ai vu un renard traverser la rue.
The infinitive follows the noun directly — no que, no relative pronoun.
| The fox lives in the forest. | Le renard vit dans la forêt. |
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