It's the third person indicative form of 'cuisiner'.

yes it is

Good question.

http://www.frenchtoday.com/blog/how-to-say-to-cook-in-french-cuir-cuisiner-faire-la-cuisine

So “cuisiner” can always replace “faire la cuisine”, but “faire la cuisine” cannot always replace “cuisiner”.

quote: "“Faire la cuisine” is never followed by the thing that you prepare. The focus is on the action itself."

It seems that in a possessive form, Femme is Wife and in a general form Femme is woman. Ma Femme will almost always be My Wife but La Femme can be The woman or in the possessive context The Wife. In a Blues song, I do not know how the French would distinctly say "I woke up diss moanin'.... An' Lord my Woman done gone"" Methinks the French dont never have dem empty bed Blues?

My point exactly! But I think I wrote 'girl' Oops lol.

No, not at all!!! In principle, with a person subject, "cuire" is a transitive verb (i.e. used with a complement that is the object of the action).

"Ma femme cuit", as it is, with no complement, would mean that she is the object being cooked, baked. It's very unlikely to hear that sentence, unless in a figurative way: you're on the beach, scorching sun, you are in the shade but your wife isn't, so you could say "Ma femme cuit / est en train de cuire", she's roasting like a chicken in an oven!

"Ma femme cuite": "cuite" is here used as an adjective/past participle, and so that would be the result. The night of your hot day at the beach, your burnt wife can't even bare to have a light shirt on her shoulder, "Ma femme cuite ne peut même pas porter une chemise légère". "Cuite" is not the main verb here (it just describes your wife).

"Ma femme cuit le poulet": she is BAKING the chicken. There must be an object after "cuire", otherwise it means what I've written just before (provided the subject is a person).

Of course, then you could translate as "my wife is cooking the chicken", but "cuire" is more specific and it literally means "to bake", "to roast", "to braise" or "to heat up", according to the object you're cooking.

It's "ma" because: - singular (only one wife) means it must be "ma" or "mon" - femme is feminine means it must be "ma"

"mes" would be for plural (my children = "mes enfants").

sa is second-person singular, ses is second-person plural.

The table here should help:

http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/adjectives_possessive.htm

I'm sure you've got a clue, haven't you?!? Especially with an example such as "FEMME", it couldn't be any clearer! ;-)

• "mon" is English "my" for masculine words. Talking about your husband, you should say "Mon mari".

• "ma" is English "my" for feminine words. Talking about your wife, you should say "Ma femme".

This would, of course, be too easy as such! :-) And maybe that's why you ask the question...

Tricky thing is, the rule of "colliding vowel sounds" applies here too, like you should say "l'avion" (masc., "the airplane") or "l'école" (fem., "the school"), and not "le avion" or "la école", because those words start with a- and é-.

With "mon" and "ma" + nouns starting with a vowel [sound], you don't use the apostrophe ( so not : m' ). To show you, let's take synonyms for "mari" (husband) et "femme" (wife) : "époux" and "épouse" (= spouse). To translate "my spouse", you should write and say:

• "mon époux" (for your husband) : no change here, as "mon" ends with -n, and you can make the liaison between the two words. So this is pronounced [mon népou].

• "mon épouse" (for your wife): you use the masculine form of "my" in French, to avoid the collision of "mA Épouse". You then create the liaison here as well, pronouncing [mon népouz].

It's a bit confusing because you use the masculine possesive determiner (mon) with a feminine noun (épouse). This rule applies to ALL nouns (persons, animals, objects, concepts,...).

Thus, if someone says "mon ami" (male friend) or "mon amie" (female friend), you can't tell the difference orally, unless the person insists "unnaturally" on the final -e of "amie" to make it clear they talk about a girl.

Hi Bhavya. Femme is woman in general but preceded by a possessive it means wife

No reason. It is one of the default answers.

Amber, this has been addressed so many times here in this very thread. When Femme is preceded by a possessive; Ma, Ta Sa...... Femme then means Wife. This is just how French works itself.

It is not wrong, Mariabap. Report it. Check n6zs's post above. He is most trustworthy.

Hello Mary. French is quite specific. There is a context for cuire but it is also for sting, bake, kiln and curry, (as in flavour, groom a horse with a curry brush. it is also a noun and is a small shrub or tree native to India and Sri Lanka. You may see the problems with using Cuire?) The infinitive for To Cook is cuisiner.

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