Level B1 (lower intermediate)
The French word of the day is the conjunction car (B1), meaning ‘because’, ‘for’ and ‘as’. J’étudie le français car c’est une belle langue. I’m studying French as it’s a beautiful language!
car – IPA pronunciation /kaʀ/
“Car” – Master The Usage Of This Conjunction
Word origin
The Modern French conjunction car comes from quārē (for what reason) in Latin.
Example sentences
This first example sentence uses sortir, which means ‘to go out’. Students often confuse this verb with partir (to leave).
Je sors car il fait beau.
I’m going out because it’s nice weather out.
For this second example sentence, the expression faire attention à + noun can translate to ‘watch out for’ or ‘be careful of’.
Attention aux piétons, car ils marchent dans la rue.
Watch out for the pedestrians as they’re walking in the street.
This sentence uses a similar expression, faire gaffe à + noun, which is somewhat synonymous with faire attention.
Fais gaffe à ce mec car il est très malin.
Watch out for that guy because he’s very clever.
Interestingly, the masculine noun le car means bus or coach.
Mes amis sont allés en Espagne en car.
My friends went to Spain by bus.
Continue learning French!
French conjunction or “connecting” words can be very tricky for many students. This lesson does an amazing job explaining 58 French conjunctions with audio and example sentences.
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Learn more French conjunctions!
- Bien que – even though, although
- Cependant – however, yet, nonetheless
- Tandis que – whereas, while
- Pour que so that, in order to
- Quoique – even though, although
- Pourvu que – provided that
- Malgré – despite
- Lors de – at the time of
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