Crossword puzzle : Modalization in French

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.

Horizontalement

1. 6. Legal file or case folder
2. 8. To want, irregular French verb
3. 8. To want
4. 8. Verb meaning 'to want'
5. 8. To want or desire something
6. 8. Verb meaning 'to want'
7. 8. To want or to wish something
8. 10. Grammatical mood of hypothesis
9. 11. Confirmation of a fact or statement
10. 12. Relating to knowledge and belief
11. 13. Based on reasoning and inference

Verticalement

1. 1. To be able to do something
2. 1. To be able
3. 1. To be able to, modal verb
4. 1. Verb meaning 'to be able to'
5. 1. Modal verb expressing possibility
6. 2. To find
7. 3. Statement presented as true
8. 4. Twilight, dusk at day's end
9. 5. Next
10. 7. Likelihood of something being true
11. 9. Use of modal expressions in language