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La liaison obligatoire

July 22, 2025 Geri Metz

La liaison in French is a complex subject, with lists of when liaison is required, when it is forbidden and all the many possibilities when it is optional. (les liaisons obligatoires, les liaisons inerdites, and les liaisons facultatives)

Liaison is not technically a subject of pronunciation; it is a subject of when you must make it and when you must not. It is a case of learning (memorizing) all the cases when it is required or not. To simplify the subject, I am proposing here that the student do all the liaisons obligatoires, and for any other possibility, just don't make it. This path will guarantee that you will always be correct. There may be times when a liaison would have been o.k. But if you treat all other cases as “don't make these”you will never be wrong. So, if the case is not listed here, and you question whether to make a liaison or not, the answer is No don't make it; That way you will be guaranteed to not make a mistake in this subject.

Liaison is partly due to the grammatical closeness of the 2 words in question. So an article and its noun, or an adjective and its noun or a subject pronoun and its verb, are closely connected and therefore become a required liaison. 

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LE 14 JUILLET!

July 21, 2017 Geri Metz

 I wonder if any place does fireworks like the French version in Paris each year. I was pleased to get this video of the 2017 display and wanted to share it with you all. It's a half hour long, but spectacular. Enjoy!

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