--- title: Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: French has a ladder for liking things: j'adore (I love), j'aime (I like), j'aime bien (I quite like), je n'aime pas (I don't like --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime… # Likes and dislikes: j'aime, je n'aime pas Lesson 24 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/0/) — French has a ladder for liking things: j'adore (I love), j'aime (I like), j'aime bien (I quite like), je n'aime pas (I don't like) and je déteste (I hate). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/1/) — To say "not", French wraps two little words around the verb like the bread of a sandwich: je ne mange pas, and ne loses its e before a vowel, so je n'aime pas. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/3/) — A reason makes your French sound grown-up: "Je déteste les brocolis parce que c'est dégoûtant", I hate broccoli because it's disgusting. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/4/) — In the street you will hear "J'aime pas" without ne, and teenagers say "Je kiffe" for "I really like" - real French, but in your written work keep "je n'aime pas" and "j'adore". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/5/) — Ne becomes n' before a vowel: je n'aime pas, je n'ai pas; ne and pas go round the verb. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/6/) — The scale of liking: j'adore (love), j'aime (like), j'aime bien (quite like), je n'aime pas (don't like), je déteste (hate). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/7/) — Pourquoi ? means "Why?" and parce que means "because": parce que c'est délicieux, nul, ennuyeux (boring) or drôle (funny). - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/8/) — C'est nul means "It's rubbish"; nul is not a rude word. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/9/) — Its opposite is c'est génial, "It's brilliant". - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/12/) — Je kiffe is slang for "I really like"; teenagers use it with friends, not in written work. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/14/) — Beurk ! means "Yuck!" and Miam ! or Miam-miam ! means "Yum!" - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/15/) — Bof is a shrugging sound meaning "meh, so-so"; it means not great and not terrible, not "bad". - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/24-likes-and-dislikes/16/) — Qu'est-ce que tu aimes ? means "What do you like?"; qu'est-ce que sounds like "kess-kuh". - ← previous: [Hobbies and sport](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/) - next →: [Le, la, un, une: every word is a boy or a girl](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/25-le-la-un-une-every-word-is-a-boy-or-a-girl/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)