SL French

Connectors

Bonjour!!

     I hope everyone is doing well! This past week in French class, we took a test to see how well we knew our connectors. Connectors are words used to join words or sentences. Knowing a wide range of connectors will help your writing be more coherent, enjoyable to read, and easier to grasp! I would definitely recommend studying up on multiple connectors for whatever language you are learning. Below is a list of the connectors that we had to know for the test, as well as their English translation. Try and test yourself!

En effet: indeed

Au dessous d': underneath

Puisque: since

Car: because

Tout d'abord: first of all

En suite: next

Cette a dire: this is to say

Quelque part: somewhere

Partout: everywhere

D'une part: on one hand

D'autre part: on the other hand

Toutefois: however

Au contraire: on the contrary

Enfin: finally

Apres que: after

Actuellement: currently

Si non: if not

Pour que: so that

Alors que: whereas

Pourvu que: provided that

Bien que: although

Pourtant: however

Malgre: in spite

Comme: such as, like

Autrefois: in the past

De nos jours: nowadays

De plus: moreover

Au tour de: around

Au bout de: at the end of

Etant donne que: given that

Meme si: even if

D'ailleurs: by the way

Grace a: thanks to

Sauf: except

Neanmoins: nevertheless

Donc: so

Selon: according to

Ainsi: so

Au moment ou: the moment when

Depuis: since

Cependant: however

     I've memorized these so well that I didn't even have to look up the English translations whenever I was typing them up . I knew them by heart! I would recommend using flash cards to study these connectors, as that was the method I used to learn them. 

Good Luck!

- Sophie F.