Can you name the family members in French?

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French: Family Quiz

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Published: April 30th, 2009
Category: Language
Plays: 72,347

Tags: French Quizzes, english, member, family

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	chris1889:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	3 points
	7/18... GCSE French seems so very long ago

	sub:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	13 points
	Why do you need to type "les" for parents or "l'" for uncle, but not "la" for sister or "le" for nephew?

	jesus:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:12 GMT	4 points
	@Chris: I second that.

	Kicking222:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	2 points
	And I second sub's comment.

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	Brentzky:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:15 GMT	0 points
	9/18 wow my french is rusty. and i do agree w/ sub

	lulubelles:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:20 GMT	-1 points
	I only did french till year 9, I took German instead. Only got 4, which isn't bad considering its 11 years ago

	iamthedancefloor:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	-1 points
	I have a French exam on Monday. Clearly I need to revise haha! Forgot that granddaughter needed to be feminine, and therefore thought that my first instinct for grandson was also wrong.

	Rackie:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	2 points
	hmm didn't accept oncle for me...

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	speedbird007:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 20:57 GMT	-3 points
	Easy

	Lisa:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	18 points
	Husband can be mari or homme or epoux. Wife can be mariee or femme or epouse.

	squirrelito:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 21:29 GMT	7 points
	mom/mum is maman not mere. Mere is the more formal "mother", likewise pere is "father" and papa is "dad". BTW: La Femme is the same for both wife and woman

	milkmeister:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 21:44 GMT	7 points
	And cousin/cousine means cousin, not nephew/niece!

	ZeZapatiste:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 21:46 GMT	3 points
	Pretty easy for a French guy. It always makes me laugh when you don't know when to write "le" or "la" :) dakaraja : "femme" can mean women in general, but also wife. I confirm that "mère" means "mother" and not really "mom".

	milkmeister:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	4 points
	I'm sure the Germans laugh at our inability to know when to write der, die or das (or any of the other myriad forms of the) as well!

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	pbrown:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 22:56 GMT	-3 points
	If I acatually took French, this quiz would be a different story

	JulieD:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:05 GMT	3 points
	@ZeZapatiste: le/la is particularly easy here, as it follows the natural gender of people.

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	Sparky:	Apr 30th, 2009 at 23:14 GMT	12 points
	^ Why American English? Do you think British English or NZ English is harder? Why not just say "English"? Just curious...

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	tcalleen:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:07 GMT	0 points
	I had always heard that Spanish was the easiest language to learn, because there aren't many if any irregular spellings. I'm happy with the three that I got, considering I took Spanish in school, and my school was so small that was the only extra language we had!

	magister:	May 1st, 2009 at 00:07 GMT	5 points
	Sooo...I don't know any French, but I wanted to applaud Sporcle for the new format. Thematic language quizzes like this are really useful, even beyond the trivia usually found on the site. (Don't get me wrong, as the captain of my high school quiz bowl team, I love trivia as much as anyone.)

	springmom:	May 1st, 2009 at 01:23 GMT	3 points
	My students who are speakers of other languages and are learning English would NOT agree that any form of English is easier. Have you ever looked in a dictionary to see how many different definitions there are for the word play? or ball? Or that there are many instances of words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and pronunciations? English is actually one of the harder languages to learn.

	startrekempress:	May 1st, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	0 points
	I feel like such a terrible Marimite fan for not remembering 'sœur' ...

	mschessplayer:	May 1st, 2009 at 03:35 GMT	-4 points
	@ Sparky and all... I mistakenly thought American English so informal that it's easier to learn. Plus so many multi-lingual people speak English along w/Spanish or French or Arabic or German, or Mandarin, etc. How many languages does everyone here speak?

	toulousain:	May 1st, 2009 at 08:47 GMT	1 point
	Congrats to the players ! When I saw the quizz, I thought it would be difficult for most of the "sporclers" but you did some decent results. I did 18 ;)

	HughieM:	May 1st, 2009 at 11:31 GMT	0 points
	i'm a fluent french speaker and still only got 17. the word for wife is épouse not femme. bah!!

	chambers:	May 1st, 2009 at 16:48 GMT	1 point
	missed two of them. i suppose i am doing french revision for my gcses right now...

	Dubliner :	May 1st, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	0 points
	'How many languages does everyone here speak?' German , Japanese , Irish (Gaelic) , English (Hibernian version )- used to have better French (but I got 18 /18 ;) some Zulu , Setswana and Sindebele -can get by in Latin but there's nobody around to speak it to ;) And I recall learning the cyrillic alphabet for a visit to Russia when it was the USSR . The best linguists imo are in Holland , Belgium , Sweden, Switzerland and in parts of Africa . Japanese are the worst with English and all english speaking countries a close second .

	Dubliner :	May 1st, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	0 points
	@ springmom , 'English is actually one of the harder languages to learn.' Not at all . I found it very easy;) While it's true that there are more words for the same thing in English than in say French or German and that Spanish is more phonetic you need only 600 words to have a command of basic english whereas you need 2000 or more for basic French or German . In German there are 36 versions of the definite article depending on the case and noun gender and as Mark Twain said when a German speaks you have to wait till he/she gets to the end of the sentence to understand the real meaning (the verb ) the action word goes to the end . In Irish the verb (action word ) is the first word ;) If the Normans under William the Bastard /Tanner /conqueror had not defeated Harold in 1066 -the english language today would not look or sound anything like it does . It would be a kind of cross between Dutch Friesian and Faroese i.e another disease of the throat ;)

	french guy:	May 1st, 2009 at 22:08 GMT	-3 points
	Easy, got them all in 45 seconds

	Wagon:	May 2nd, 2009 at 01:30 GMT	0 points
	Is there any reason why 'grand' in 'la grand-mere' is masculine, and 'petite' in 'la petite-fille' is feminine?

	ZeZapatiste:	May 2nd, 2009 at 13:17 GMT	1 point
	@Wagonmaster : sometimes in old french the "e" is missing for the adjective "grand" For example, many streets are called "Grand rue", even if "rue" is feminine. I can't remember if there are some other adjective with the same characteristics

	Panther:	May 2nd, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	1 point
	17 out of 18, forgot the "s" in grand"s"-parents =/ Not bad, I guess. By the way, @ springmom, I'm Belgian and I've learned both english and french, and I must say, english was way easier ;-)

	jeter97:	May 2nd, 2009 at 22:14 GMT	1 point
	oncle was accepted for me

	Duke_of_Prunes:	May 3rd, 2009 at 13:54 GMT	1 point
	16/18, the fact that I couldn't think of "tante" ridiculous... And English is easier to learn than most (European)languages. Generally less cases to be considered, and the nouns haven't all got a sex that needs to, in many cases, be memorized. As for native English speakers being bad with foreign(although seemingly many haven't even mastered their own :p) languages, I can understand how certain concepts would be difficult to grasp. The idea of adding something to the end of a word because of what is happening in a sentence must be baffling when it's something you're not used to. Best linguists? In my experience the Dutch are very good with languages. You'll find that the vast majority of people in the Netherlands speak English and German... a lot of people speak French as well. I think that the fact that it's a relatively small country as well as it's geographical location have a big impact on this. Also, I've always thought the fact that they don't dub foreign(we're talking mainly about english of course) tv shows(as the french/germans/spanish for instance do), everything is subtitled so people are forced to watch things in English.