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  2. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche

  4. Petit Robert - Wikipedia

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    Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française (IPA: [lə p(ə)ti ʁɔbɛʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), known as just Petit Robert, is a popular single-volume French dictionary first published by Paul Robert in 1967. It is an abridgement of his eight-volume Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française. [1]

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2008 June 24

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    How quoi became que? I dont know and there is no answer in my French grammar. The usual form is que as an object or an attribute: Que chantes-tu ? However quoi is used when it is not the first word of the sentence (without inversion): Il t'a dit quoi ? Que or quoi are used when the verb is at the infinitive mood. Que faire ? or Quoi faire ?

  6. Collins-Robert French Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database.

  7. French articles and determiners - Wikipedia

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    The prepositions à (' to, at ') and de (' of, from ') form contracted forms with the masculine and plural articles le and les: au, du, aux, and des, respectively.. Like the, the French definite article is used with a noun referring to a specific item when both the speaker and the audience know what the item is.

  8. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French has three articles: definite, indefinite, and partitive. The difference between the definite and indefinite articles is similar to that in English (definite: the; indefinite: a, an), except that the indefinite article has a plural form (similar to some, though English normally does not use an article before indefinite plural nouns). The ...

  9. Franglais - Wikipedia

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    Franglais (French: [fʁɑ̃ɡlɛ]) or Frenglish (/ ˈ f r ɛ ŋ ɡ l ɪ ʃ / FRENG-glish) is a French blend that referred first to the overuse of English words by French speakers [1] and later to diglossia or the macaronic mixture of French (français) and English (anglais).