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Joie de vivre (/ ˌ ʒ w ɑː d ə ˈ v iː v (r ə)/ ZHWAH də VEEV (-rə), French: [ʒwa d(ə) vivʁ] ⓘ; "joy of living") is a French phrase often used in English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life, an exultation of spirit, and general happiness. It "can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do…
in English, a person who cooks professionally for other people. In French the word means "head" or "chief"; a professional cook is a cuisinier (lit. "cook"), chef-cuisinier referring to a head cook. Also, sous-chef, the second-in-command, directly under the head chef.
“We want to keep them around—and this is a powerful way to say, ‘I really do love you, and you’re special to me.’” “If I were given the choice of choosing my family, I would still ...
A ménage à trois (French: [menaʒ a tʁwɑ]) is a domestic arrangement or committed relationship consisting of three people in polyamorous romantic or sexual relations with each other, and often dwelling together. [1] [2] The phrase is a loan from French meaning "household of three".
French-language names (1 C) P. French proverbs (1 P) Pages in category "French words and phrases" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total ...
Valentine Colasante (born 1989), French ballet dancer; Valentine de Saint-Point (1875–1953), French poet, playwright and painter; Valentine Dyall (1908–1985), British actor; Valentine Fleming, father of author Ian Fleming; Valentine Friedli (1929– 2016), Swiss politician from the Jura. Valentina Gestro de Pozzo (1914–2011), Argentine ...
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
For example, Spanish allows for all six possible word orders, compared to French’s three. Additionally, unlike other Romance languages, specifically Spanish and Italian, French does not have free inversion, which is often explained by French not being a pro-drop language (while Spanish and Italian are). [6]