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The verb " être " is an irregular verb, as in many languages, and generally the first we learn
It can express the hour : Il est quinze heures et demi
Or a physical caracteristic : Il est grand ; or an emotion : Il est content
It can express the place we are : Il est à Paris
It can express the work, or some aspects of a personnality
Il est boulanger ( work ) ; Il est gentil ( personnality )
Or it can design a general truth : C'est bleu

For instant, I'll give you the present tense conjugation of this verb, with some vocabulary in relation with its functions, so let's start ^^ :

Je suis
Tu es
Il/Elle/On est
Nous sommes
Vous êtes
Ils/Elles sont

Vocabulary :

Physical :
dark haired : brun(e)
blond : blond(e)
red haired : roux/rousse
eyes : yeux
tall : grand(e)
small/tiny : petit(e)
fat : gros(se)
thin : mince
beautiful : beau/belle

Personnality:
kind/gentle : sympathique/gentil(le)
mad : fou/folle
stupid : bête/stupide
clever : intelligent(e)

Emotion:
happy: content(e)/joyeux-euse/heureux-se
sad : triste

Work:
a baker : un(e) boulanger(ère)
a fireman : un pompier*
a policeman : un policier*
a teacher : un(e) enseignant(e)/un(e) professeur(e)

* In french, some of works, as firwomen or policewomen haven't got any equivalence , for example those are most of the time said with mal gender, it doesn't sound very well if you say it in female gender. Tha'ts quite machist, but that's the grammar.

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