Where are you from?
This natural spoken question puts d’où, meaning from where, at the end.
FREE BEGINNER LESSON 5 · FRENCH
French: Where are you from?
Learn to use where are you from? in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
Informal · getting acquainted. Learn the meaning, listen to the pronunciation, then practise in the interactive lesson.
Practise this lessonOpening vocabulary referenceUseful French phrases and their meanings
I am from England.
Viens is the je form of venir. D’Angleterre means from England.
Where do you live?
Où means where. Habites addresses one person informally.
I live in Lyon.
Je shortens to j’ before habite because its h is silent. À introduces a town.
How the sentence works
Venir de gives origin: je viens d’Angleterre. De becomes d’ before a vowel. Habiter gives where you live: j’habite à Lyon. Use à with a town, en with many feminine country names, and au with many masculine country names.
A short conversation in French
Where are you from?
I am from England. And you?
I am from France. I live in Lyon.
Words to recognise
where
England
France
to live
Listen to the whole phrase before focusing on each word. You can replay as often as you like, and the interactive lesson uses pictures and a short exchange to put the meaning in context.
Open the interactive lessonThe opening six teaching lessons are free, including the mini-tests after lessons three and six. A test accepts any answer and shows the score and corrections at the end. No typing or speaking aloud is required.
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