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French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]
A liaison consonant should not be pronounced immediately after /ʁ/, as in pars avec lui /paʁ a.vɛk lɥi/, fort agréable /fɔʁ a.ɡʁe.abl/ or vers une solution /vɛʁ yn sɔ.ly.sjɔ̃/. Plural /z/ is recognized as an exception to this rule, and various other counterexamples can be observed, like de part et d'autre /də paʁ.t‿e.dotʁ/ .
Ils sont plus nombreux que tu ne le crois. — "There are more of them than you think." Expletive ne is found in finite subordinate clauses (never before an infinitive). It is characteristic of literary rather than colloquial style. [4] In other registers French tends to not use any negation at all in such clauses, e.g., J'ai peur que cela se ...
Se makes the verb refer to itself (reflexive form) [1] which often functions as a shorter way to form the passive: li frontieras esset cludet = li frontieras cludet se (the borders were closed). The progressive tense (- nt ) is not used with the same frequency as in English (what are you doing? = quo tu fa ?, not quo tu es fant ?).
"Les Mots" (English: "The Words") is a 2001 song recorded as a duet by the French singer-songwriter Mylène Farmer and the English soul singer Seal. It was the first single from her best of album, Les Mots , and was released on 13 November 2001.
The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...
Conjugation is the variation in the endings of verbs (inflections) depending on the person (I, you, we, etc), tense (present, future, etc.) and mood (indicative ...
Some adverbs are derived from adjectives in completely irregular fashions, not even using the suffix -ment: bon → bien ("good" → "well") mauvais → mal ("bad" → "badly") meilleur → mieux (the adjective "better" → the adverb "better") traditionally, pire → pis (the adjective "worse" → the adverb "worse") or more commonly, pire → ...