FRENCH GRAMMAR

French is a Romance language spoken originally in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, and today by about 175 million people around the world as a mother tongue or fluent second language, with significant populations in 54 countries.

French grammar shares several notable features with most other Romance languages, including:

the loss of Latin's declensions

only two grammatical genders

the development of grammatical articles from Latin demonstratives

new tenses formed from auxiliaries

French word order is Subject Verb Object, except when the object is a pronoun, in which case the word order is Subject Object Verb. Some rare archaisms allow for different word orders.