Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its direct and indirect object and adverbial pronouns 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

There are direct and indirect object pronouns in this song, as well as instances of both adverbial pronouns. Since all replace nouns we’ve thrown them in to practice together. Information on these pronouns can be found below.

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

Adverbial and Object Pronoun Flashcards – Practice the object pronouns in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Adverbial and Object Pronoun Games – Practice the object pronouns in this song using our memory and matching games.

Adverbial and Object Pronoun Exercises – Practice the object pronouns in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
bercer	to rock, cradlle; lull, soothe; raise, nurture; delude, dupe, bamboozle	spl chg verb	bercés
carrière	career, profession	fem noun	carrière
célébrer	to celebrate; perform, preside over, officiate at	stm chg verb	célébrait
faire semblant	to pretend		semblant
fête	party, festival, celebration	fem noun	fête
franchement	frankly, honestly; downright, plain, indisputably	adv	Franchement,
horaire	time; schedule	masc noun	horaires
infirmière	(female) nurse	fem noun	infirmière
manières	manners, behavior, conduct	fem noun	manières
mieux vaut	it would be better		mieux vaut
nettoyer	to clean; clear; rid, clean up; purge	stm chg verb	nettoies
par terre	on the floor, on the ground		terre,
propre	own; clean	adj	propre
respecter	to respect, observe, heed, obey; have/show respect for	reg verb	respectes
responsable	responsible party, person at fault; supervisor, manager	masc or fem noun	responsable
se prendre pour	take oneself for, believe oneself to be, think oneself		prends
souffrir	to suffer, be in pain	irreg verb	souffrent
trinquer	to drink to, toast; pay the price, suffer the consequences	reg verb	trinque
verre	glass; drink	masc noun	verre, verres
veste	jacket	fem noun	vestes

Object Pronouns and Adverbial Pronouns

Object and adverbial pronouns replace nouns in sentences to avoid having to repeat a noun that has already been mentioned or is understood. They are placed directly before the verb, or in the case of compound tenses, before the conjugated verb.

Direct Object Pronouns

Direct object pronouns replace the direct object of a sentence. A direct object is a noun that receives the action of the verb; i.e it is a person or a thing that someone or something acts upon. It can be found by asking “Whom?” or “What?” Following are the direct object pronouns:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	me (m’) – me	nous – us
2nd person	te (t’) – you	vous – you
3rd person	le (l’) – him, it	les – them
	la (l’) – her, it

Indirect Object Pronouns

Indirect object pronouns replace the indirect object of the sentence. An indirect object is a person to whom the action of the verb is done indirectly; i.e. the action is done ‘to’ or ‘for’ someone. It can be found by asking “to whom?” or “for whom?”. Following are the indirect object pronouns:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	me (m’) – me	nous – us
2nd person	te (t’) – you	vous – you
3rd person	lui – him/her	leur – them

Adverbial Pronouns

Adverbial pronouns are both pronouns in the sense that they replace nouns, as well as adverbs as they represent a place, a quantity, or the object of a preposition. There are two adverbial pronouns in French: ‘en’ and ‘y’.

‘y’ – Replaces a place or the object of the preposition ‘à’. It is either translated as ‘there’ or by a preposition plus ‘it’. We see both uses in this song:

• Location:
  • Dans une heure, j’reviens, qu’ce soit propre, qu’on puisse y manger par terre, trois heures que j’attends
• Preposition à:
  • Frotter, frotter, mieux vaut ne pas s’y frotter, frotter si tu n’me connais pas (se frotter à moi)

‘en’ – Replaces a quantity, a place, or the object of the preposition ‘de’. Some of the possible translations are ‘any’, ‘one’, ‘some’, ‘about it/them’ or ‘of it/them’. In this song we only see ‘en’ replace quantity:

• à ceux qui n’en ont pas