Context:
I’m sure I have heard somewhere (perhaps from my students) that…(hold your breath there!) Paris is the fashion capital of the world??!!! Ta-dah!! Hehe, don’t wait for me to confirm or deny this claim; I’m only a simple guy who loves wearing jeans and you can say that la Haute Couture is not my area of expertise. However, I do believe it is important that we learn the usual words and expressions people use to describe what they wear…and I propose that we do this in French. Like that idea 
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Goals:
By the end of this lesson, you should be able to do the following:
Chapter 1 –> Lesson 4:
Level of difficulty: Easy
An important verb you should rapidly learn AND memorize before you even begin this lesson is the verb PORTER (to wear).
Next, here is a typical question-answer you should quickly get familiar with:
Q. Qu’est-ce que tu portes? What do you wear?/ What are you wearing?
A. Je porte une chemise. (I wear/I am wearing a shirt…).
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une chemise | Michel porte une chemise blanche.
Michel is wearing a white shirt
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un pantalon | Charles porte un pantalon.
Charles is wearing pants.
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un short | Je ne porte pas de short en hiver.
I do not wear shorts in winter.
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un jean | Tu portes un jean.
You’re wearing jeans.
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des chaussures | Nous portons des chaussures marron.
We are wearing brown shoes.
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des baskets | Jordan porte des baskets.
Jordan is wearing sneakers.
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un chemisier | Carla porte un chemisier rouge.
Carla is wearing a red blouse/shirt (woman’s).
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une jupe | Marthe porte une jupe.
Martha is wearing a skirt.
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une robe | Mélanie porte une robe violette.
Melanie is wearing a purple dress.
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des chaussettes | Est-ce que tu portes des chaussettes jaunes?
Are you wearing yellow socks?
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mettre | Je mets mes chaussettes.
I put on my socks.
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ôter | J’ôte mes chaussettes.
I take off my socks.
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un costume | Cet homme d’affaires porte un costume.
This businessman is wearing a suit.
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une cravate | Est-ce que Michel porte une cravate?
Is Michel wearing a tie?
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un manteau | Vous portez des manteaux en hiver.
You wear coats in winter.
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Well, this appears to be quite a considerable amount of vocab to digest in just lesson…:-) But I still want to complete this lesson with names of accessories usually found in clothing stores or boutiques, you know, stuff like sunglasses, belts, ear-rings, etc…So, shall we keep going? OUI!!!
CLOTHING ACCESSORIES
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EXAMPLES |
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une bague | Est-ce qu’elle porte une bague?
Does she wear a ring?
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un collier | Un beau collier.
A nice necklace
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une boucle d’oreille | Karen ne porte jamais de boucles d’oreille.
Karen never wears earrings
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une montre | Une belle montre.
A nice watch
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un bracelet | Un bracelet bleu.
A blue bracelet
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une ceinture | Une belle ceinture.
A nice belt
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un sac-à-main | Un sac-à-main vert.
A green handbag
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des lunettes | Je porte des lunettes.
I wear eyeglasses
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des lunettes de soleil | Bono porte des lunettes de soleil.
Bono wears sunglasses.
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une écharpe | En hiver, on porte une écharpe.
In winter, people wear scarves.
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un chapeau | un chapeau gris.
A grey hat
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If you are ready, feel free to complete a short essay here to sharpen your writing skills.
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It’s the wonderful lesson. All of your lessons show that you have the strong intention to give others. Thank a lot.
But I have a comment which I can’t see all the texts especially on the right hand. For example de boucle d’oreille, is it written: Karen ne porte jamais de boucle d’oreille. or not? If the frame of text can be seen all, it will be better and better.
Thank a lot
with your suggestion,now I can see them all by changing my computer’s resolution. Thank you so much for your help.
You’re very welcome, Anna, I’m glad this technical issue is now resolved. Enjoy!
Firstly,thanks so much for these lessons. I appreciate your effort and the fact that it is all free! I especially love that your proverbs all come with audio (extremely helpful).
I just want to check something I noticed in this lesson:
In the example for chaussures – is marron not supposed to be in plural as well? Or maybe it is an exception?
Thanks
“Oui, marron est une exception”. I explain it in the following lesson on “Colors”. In des chaussures marron, marron will not take S even in the plural form. Thanks for your interest in this program and post your comments and questions if you need assistance with any other lesson.
Goodday prof. i hope ur going well ..__wel, i have a alittle question .. in the sentence .. tu portes un jean .. the letter (s) on portes ..__do we spell it in this situation ( portes un ) ??? __thank u ..
Bonjour Mrtaha,
If I understand well your question, you're asking if the (s) on "portes" should make the liaison with the following word "un" since it begins with a vowel. Is that correct? The liaison in this situation is not obligatory (perhaps it should even be avoided). Liaison in French as you know are these phonetical phenomena whereby two words can be linked to produce "easier" sounds. As a native speaker, I can assure you that I am making make more effort in this situation when I try to establish the liaison between these 2 words PORTES + UN. It is much simpler for me to say TU PORTUN (as if the ES of Portes were swallowed.) So, to answer your question, no, you should not spell the (S )of "portes" in this situation. Hope this helps
By the way, I just listened once again to the audio clip you've mentioned, and I would like to add that in the sound clips i prepare for each lesson, I make sure to speak at a reasonable speed to allow everybody to catch the correct pronunciation. So I made a pause between PORTES and UN, but in a normal (somewhat faster) conversation, I will combine PORTES+UN as a single word: PORTUN.
.. Thank you prof. very much .. ya i get it know ..
.. prof. i studied ur lessons all , am an old student .. i want to ask you if u please and if u can .. to put some advanced lessons in french .. or it not had to be lessons .. some applications or posts .. like the poem you had posted ..it's very nice .. ..
thnx for all ..
the last thing prof. i would like to tell you .. i know i've started to be noisy .. lol .. but i have some sort of plan o project i would like to take ur openion in it ..
thnx very much .. byebye
Salut, I can certainly put more advanced lessons, especially for those who have followed me since 2007 from my Youtube channel. I understand that many of the new lessons I am posting so far since the upgrade are very easy. But my goal is to rapidly give everyone a chance to have a solid basis (especially new users discovering the site everyday and joining the group), but in the end, we will work our way all the way to end. If there are specific things/words/expressions more challenging you'd like to understand, you can certainly contact thru my email and I can assist you with that. I will also expand the poem section with many many more audio poems. Stay tuned.
P.S. You can also email me about the project that's brewing. I will be more than happy to give you my opinion on it. Merci
I’m afraid there are some words are not pronounced.Why??
Thank you
Simoziko, if you discover some missing words, could you please write them so I can make their audio recordings? Thanks so much for helping me help you better.
the words that are not pronounced are:
ôter= take off
des chaussettes=socks
thank you