Collins Dictionaries - Easy Learning French Conversation

When you are travelling around in a French-speaking country or city, you will often need to find out some information to help you get to where you want to go. When you are asking for information you may need to get someone’s attention in order to ask them a question. To do this you can use either excusez-moior pardon.

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Remember to say mercior merci beaucoupwhen you get the information. If someone hasn’t been able to help you, you can still thank them by saying merci quand même( thanks all the same ).

If you want to ask a general question in French, you can use C’est…?or Est-ce que c’est…?( Is it…? ).

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You can see that both there is and there are are il y ain French.

In order to get more specific information, you may want to ask, for example, Où…?( Where…? ), Quel…?( Which…? ), or À quelle heure…?( What time…? ).

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When you’re not sure about something, you can ask for confirmation by adding bienafter the verb in your question.

If you want to ask how often something happens, how long it takes or how much it costs, you can use a phrase with combien.

Use Est-ce que je peux…?( Can I…? ) or Est-ce qu’on peut…?( Can we…? ) to ask whether you can do something. These are from the verb pouvoir.For more information on pouvoir,see here.