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Welcome to Leçon 21 of our Beginner French series! Today, we are learning a very delicious topic: Food and Partitive Art
📝 Transcript
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Hello everyone, welcome to lesson 21. I hope you're hungry today. But first, subscribe to our channel.
Hi Anna. Yes, subscribe. I'm starving. I'm going to eat the table. Please don't eat the furniture, Lucas. We have real food. Take out your notebooks, get your forks ready, and prepare to pause, write, repeat.
Yeah, we're finally going to talk about serious stuff, like food. Yum. Absolutely. Today, we're starting an exciting deciphering of a French lesson guide for absolute beginners. It's A1 level, so the absolute basics.
And today's mission is to survive a grammar rule that, honestly, transforms learners into completely ravenous creatures.
That's right. We have fascinating documents before us: a basic vocabulary list, a grammar rule on these famous partitive articles, and a very amusing short story titled The Cheese Monster.

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📖 Vocabulary
Key vocabulary from this episode with part of speech, meaning, and example sentences. Practice along with the video above.
I hope you are hungry
Après le sport, j'espère que vous avez faim !
partitive articles
Les articles partitifs sont importants pour parler de la nourriture.
| Word | Type | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonjour à tous | expression | Hello everyone | Bonjour à tous les auditeurs ! |
| J'espère que vous avez faim | expression | I hope you are hungry | Après le sport, j'espère que vous avez faim ! |
| s'abonner | verbe | to subscribe | N'oubliez pas de vous abonner à notre chaîne. |
| la nourriture | nom (f.) | food | J'adore la nourriture française. |
| manger | verbe | to eat | Je mange une pomme chaque jour. |
| le pain | nom (m.) | bread | Je voudrais du pain, s'il vous plaît. |
| le fromage | nom (m.) | cheese | Le fromage est délicieux avec du vin. |
| la viande | nom (f.) | meat | Elle ne mange pas de viande. |
| la soupe | nom (f.) | soup | La soupe est chaude et bonne. |
| les articles partitifs | nom (m. pl.) | partitive articles | Les articles partitifs sont importants pour parler de la nourriture. |
✏️ Exercises
Test your understanding with fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions. Click "Check" to see the answer.
Bonjour ___ tous, bienvenue dans la leçon 21.
J'espère que vous avez ___ aujourd'hui.
Pour ne rien manquer, il faut ___ à notre chaîne.
Je mange ___ pain.
Elle veut ___ fromage.
Nous avons ___ vraie nourriture.
Tu bois ___ soupe.
Le verbe 'manger' signifie 'to ___'.
Si on prononce 'panne' au lieu de 'pain', on parle de...
La phonétique est le socle de la ___.
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