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Why build your own French Anki deck

Most good French Anki decks are made for someone else's course, so their vocabulary and grammar order rarely match your class. A good French Anki deck works best when it comes from your own textbook chapter or lecture slides. DeckOwl turns that material into flashcards with spaced repetition, so you practice exactly what your instructor covered.

  • Cards follow your course's vocabulary and grammar order.
  • Works with PDF, DOCX, PPTX, plain notes, and photos of pages.
  • Spaced repetition schedules reviews so harder cards appear more often.
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Example French grammar flashcards for an Anki deck
Translate: je suis allé. Which auxiliary verb is used?I went or I have gone. Aller is a verb of motion, so it takes être in the passé composé.
Which auxiliary verb does manger take in the passé composé?Avoir, as in j'ai mangé. Most French verbs take avoir, while a small group of motion and reflexive verbs take être.
Il faut que tu fasses tes devoirs. What mood is fasses?Subjunctive, after il faut que. The phrase means you must do your homework.
Je veux du pain. What does du mean here?Some or any, the partitive article. It marks an unspecified quantity of a noun, here masculine singular before a consonant.
Je vis ici depuis deux ans. Why is vis in the present tense?French uses the present with depuis for an action that started in the past and continues now, meaning I have lived here for two years.
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Start with one chapter or unit, keeping the set small enough to review every day. Add more once your recall of the current set feels steady.

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Put the rule or trigger on the front and the conjugated form or example sentence on the back. Including the English meaning lets you check both meaning and form.

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