Test your knowledge of French modality markers with this B2-level crossword! Modality markers are essential expressions used to convey certainty, possibility, obligation, or doubt — think devoir, pouvoir, il est possible que and beyond. Can you find all the right words and phrases that French speakers use to nuance their thoughts and opinions?
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Clues
Across
- 3. Ability or skill to do something
- 10. Mood expressing doubt or wish
- 11. To want
- 12. Surrounding words giving meaning
Down
- 1. Linguistic marker of modality
- 2. Granting or seeking authorization
- 4. Prohibition or ban on an action
- 5. Mood expressing hypothesis in French
- 6. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 7. Likelihood of something occurring
- 8. Expression of necessity or possibility
- 9. Often
Answers
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Across
- 3. Ability or skill to do something → capacite
- 10. Mood expressing doubt or wish → subjonctif
- 11. To want → vouloir
- 12. Surrounding words giving meaning → contexte
Down
- 1. Linguistic marker of modality → marqueur
- 2. Granting or seeking authorization → permission
- 4. Prohibition or ban on an action → interdiction
- 5. Mood expressing hypothesis in French → conditionnel
- 6. Twilight, dusk at day's end → crepuscule
- 7. Likelihood of something occurring → probabilite
- 8. Expression of necessity or possibility → modalite
- 9. Often → souvent
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