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Test your advanced knowledge of French modalization with this crossword! Explore the nuanced ways French speakers express doubt, certainty, possibility, and attitude through modal verbs, adverbs, and epistemic expressions. From devoir and pouvoir to hedging phrases and evidential markers, this puzzle will challenge your command of one of French grammar’s most sophisticated areas.
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Clues
Across
- 6. Legal file or case folder
- 8. To want
- 10. Grammatical mood of hypothesis
- 11. Confirmation of a fact or statement
- 12. Relating to knowledge and belief
- 13. Based on reasoning and inference
Down
- 1. To be able
- 2. To find
- 3. Statement presented as true
- 4. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 5. Next
- 7. Likelihood of something being true
- 9. Use of modal expressions in language
Answers
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Across
- 6. Legal file or case folder → dossier
- 8. To want → vouloir
- 10. Grammatical mood of hypothesis → conditionnel
- 11. Confirmation of a fact or statement → validation
- 12. Relating to knowledge and belief → epistemique
- 13. Based on reasoning and inference → inferentiel
Down
- 1. To be able → pouvoir
- 2. To find → trouver
- 3. Statement presented as true → assertion
- 4. Twilight, dusk at day's end → crepuscule
- 5. Next → prochain
- 7. Likelihood of something being true → probabilite
- 9. Use of modal expressions in language → modalisation
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