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FYW 243 : When to capitalise a word in French ?

05.19.2022 - By Jessica: Native French teacher, founder of French Your WayPlay

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When students write in French, I often see words spelled with an initial uppercase which shouldn’t be: the English language uses capital letters in more situations than the French language does - typically with days of the week or months of the year. Let’s go through a useful checklist of words that require a capital letter in French.

Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode

les Français, les Européens, les Vikings

une Française, une femme française

la langue française, le français

la Joconde

La Nuit des temps (de Barjavel)

La Bête humaine (de Zola)

Le Petit Prince (De Saint Exupéry)

Fables de La Fontaine :

La Cigale et la Fourmi

Le Lièvre et la Tortue

Candide ou l'Optimisme (Voltaire)

Madame la Directrice, Monsieur l’Ambassadeur, Monsieur le Président / le Ministre

lundi, mardi, janvier, février

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