Crossword puzzle : Participial constructions in French

Put your French grammar skills to the test with this challenging crossword focused on participial constructions. From the participe présent to the gérondif and participe passé, you’ll need to recall forms, rules, and nuances that define advanced French expression. Designed for C1 learners, this puzzle will sharpen your understanding of how participles function across a variety of syntactic contexts.

Horizontalement

1. 2. Sometimes
2. 5. Twilight, dusk at day's end
3. 8. Reflexive or pronominal verb form
4. 9. Adverbial clause expressing circumstance
5. 11. To want
6. 12. Relating to sentence syntax rules

Verticalement

1. 1. To lead or rule a country
2. 3. Expressing a time relationship
3. 4. To be necessary
4. 6. Helper verb être or avoir in compound tenses
5. 7. Agreeing a participle with subject or object
6. 10. Often