Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its imperative verbs using these flashcards, games and exercises.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

We have chosen 20 terms out of this song’s lyrics to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

This song didn’t provide a whole lot to work with, but there were a number of verbs in the imerative mood, so we’ll practice those. Information on the imperative mood can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs.

Imperative Flashcards – Practice the imperative verbs in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Imperative Games – Practice the imperative veerbs in this song using our memory and matching games.

Imperative Exercises – Practice the imperative verbs in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
abaissement	lowering, reduction; humbling, debasement	masc noun	abaissement
avènement	advent, coming; accession	masc noun	avènement
charmant	delightful, lovely, charming, sweet	adj	charmant
cœur	heart	masc noun	cœurs
enfant	child, kid	masc and fem noun	enfant
étable	barn, stable	fem noun	étable
faire la conquête de	win over, win the heart of		faire leur conquête
fête	party, festival, celebration	fem noun	fêtes
heureux	happy	adj	heureux
musette	accordion; canvas bag	fem noun	musettes
Orient	East, Orient	masc noun	Orient
paille	straw; drinking straw	fem noun	paille
prophète	prophet, seer	masc noun	prophètes
régner	to reign, rule	stm chg verb	Régnez
tout-puissant	all-powerful, almighty	adj	tout-puissant

Imperative (L’impératif)

The imperative is a grammatical mood used to give instructions or orders. As such, not all pronouns have an imperative form, just the pronouns that translate as you: ‘tu’ and ‘vous’. First person plural ‘nous’ also has an imperative form, though this is typically more of a suggestion than a command, and is usually translated with ‘let’s’. For example “allons-y” means “let’s go”.

Forming the imperative of regular verbs in French is easy. The subject pronouns (tu, nous and vous) are dropped in all forms of the imperative.

• The ‘nous’ and ‘vous’ forms use the corresponding present tense conjugations.
• The ‘tu’ form of ‘-ir’ and ‘-re’ verbs also uses the present tense conjugation.
• The ‘tu’ form of ‘-er’ verbs uses the present tense conjugation, but drops the final ‘-s’.
• Only four verbs have irregular imperative forms: avoir, être, savoir and vouloir. None of these appear in this song.

When object pronouns are used with the imperative:

• In the negative (telling somone not to do something), the direct and indirct object pronouns go before the verb.
• In the affirmative (telling someo to do something), the direct and indirect object pronouns go after the verb and are attached to it using a hyphen.
• If both indirect and direct object pronouns are used, the direct objects ‘le’, ‘la’ and ‘les’ go before the indirect objects ‘moi’, ‘toi’, ‘nous’, ‘vous’ ‘lui’ and ‘leur’.

We see a great example of this in this song “Donnons-les-lui” meaning ‘let’s give them (our hearts) to him (the devine child)’.

Conjugations

The following charts show the full conjugations of the imperative verbs found in this song.

jouer: to play

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) jouons
Second person	(tu) joue	(vous) jouez
Third person	–	–

résonner: to resonate, echo; sound, ring, ring out

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) résonnons
Second person	(tu) résonne	(vous) résonnez
Third person	–	–

chanter: to sing

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) chantons
Second person	(tu) chante	(vous) chantez
Third person	–	–

partir: to leave, go

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) partons
Second person	(tu) pars	(vous) partez
Third person	–	–

venir: to come

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) venons
Second person	(tu) viens	(vous) venez
Third person	–	–

donner: to give

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) donnons
Second person	(tu) donne	(vous) donnez
Third person	–	–

régner: to reign, rule

	Singular	Plural
First person	–	(nous) régnons
Second person	(tu) règne	(vous) régnez
Third person	–	–