Proper Nouns
French: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 4.2.2
Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are names of specific people, places or things. In English, proper nouns always start with a capital letter. Most of these also begin with a capital letter in French.
Countries
- Countries begin with a capital letter in French.
- la France - France
- le Royaume-Uni - The United Kingdom
- l‘Espagne - Spain
- l’Inde - India
Names
- People’s first names and second names begin with a capital letter in French.
- Emmanuel Macron (the French president)
- Julien Doré (a French singer)
- Amandine Henry (captain of the French ladies’ football team)
- Louise Bourgeois (a French artist)
Towns and cities
- Towns and cities begin with a capital letter in French.
- Paris (the capital of France)
- Marseille (a city in the south of France)
- Londres (this is French for London)
Test yourself on Proper Nouns
Which sentence is correct?