French to English examples

Je veux apprendre l'anglais rapidement.

→ I want to learn English quickly.

The sentence structure is almost identical. French and English share SVO word order, which makes beginner sentences feel very familiar for French speakers.

J'apprends l'anglais depuis trois ans.

→ I have been learning English for three years.

French uses the present tense with 'depuis' for ongoing situations. English uses the present perfect continuous — a tense that has no single word-for-word equivalent in French.

Si j'avais étudié plus, j'aurais réussi l'examen.

→ If I had studied more, I would have passed the exam.

The French plus-que-parfait maps directly to the English past perfect in third conditional sentences. This is one area where French and English align closely.

Pouvez-vous parler plus lentement, s'il vous plaît?

→ Can you speak more slowly, please?

French formal questions invert the verb and subject. English uses the auxiliary verb 'can' at the front instead of inverting the main verb.

J'aime beaucoup la musique anglaise.

→ I really like English music.

Very similar structure — one of the many cases where French and English align well at the beginner level.