Common French Grammar Mistakes English Speakers Make (Beyond False Friends)
Faux amis get all the attention because they’re easy to laugh about — until you tell someone you’re “excited” using excité and get a strange look. But if you’ve already read our guide to false friends that trip up English speakers, you know vocabulary is only half the battle. The mistakes that actually keep your French sounding foreign for years are grammatical: gender agreement and prepositions. They’re small, they’re everywhere, and native speakers notice them instantly.