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Describing a scene
When you’re describing things in French, you use c’est to mean ‘it is’.
C’est is short for ce est. When you miss a letter in French you use an apostrophe, just like in English.
C’est - It’s (it is)
If you want to say ‘it isn’t’ you need to make a ne ... pas sandwich around the verb.
Ce n’est pas - It isn’t
Il y a (there is / are) is also a very useful verb.
Il y a - There is / are
To make your descriptions more interesting you might want to use these helpful words too:
très - very
assez - quite
So, here are some adjectives we might use to describe a scene. Some of them stay the same for both masculine and feminine nouns.
clair, claire - light
foncé, foncée - dark
chaud, chaude - hot
froid, froide - cold
sombre - dull
calme - calm
coloré, colorée - colourful
Now put them together with c’est:
C’est chaud. - It’s hot.
C’est TRÈS chaud. - It’s VERY hot.
C’est clair. - It’s light.
C’est ASSEZ clair. - It’s QUITE light.
If you want to say where, you could use:
ici - here
là - there
DID YOU KNOW... parce que means ‘because’ in French, but you can shorten it to car.
parce que - because
car - because
Ce n’est pas clair parce que c’est foncé. - It’s not light because it’s dark.
Ce n’est pas clair car c’est foncé. - It’s not light because it’s dark.
