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Note that in 17th century French, what is today's international standard /vɛ/ in je vais was considered substandard while je vas was the prestige form. 2. In the present subjunctive of aller, the root is regularized as all-/al/ for all persons. Examples: que j'alle, que tu alles, qu'ils allent, etc. The majority of French verbs, regardless of ...
Note that in 17th century French, what is today's international standard /vɛ/ in je vais was considered substandard while je vas was the prestige form. In the present subjunctive of aller, the root is regularized as all-/al/ for all persons. Examples: que j'alle, que tu alles, qu'ils allent, etc. The majority of French verbs, regardless of ...
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...
An illustration of a rainbow with the words, Ça va bien aller, a slogan used as a symbol of solidarity in Québec, Canada, and other cities and countries Ça va bien aller is the French translation of the Italian slogan andrà tutto bene, which emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, while the country was in lockdown.
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
Je vais au lit, là où il ne passe pas de carrosse. "I go to bed where no car is running." Moqueu d'gins railleur, persifleur (lit. moqueur des gens) "someone who mocks or jeers at people" (compare gens, which is French for "people") Ramaseu d'sous personne âpre au gain (lit. ramasseur de sous) "a greedy person"
Mon tabarnak j'vais te décâlisser la yeule, câlice or mon tabarnak, m'a tu t'l'a décâlisser ta gran' yeule: Décâlisser means "to fuck something up"; yeule comes from the derived noun gueule, which refers to an animal's throat or maw, but is used in joual to mean the human mouth or face. The whole sentence can be summarized as "I'm gonna ...
Many of the Romance languages use forms from different verbs in the present tense; for example, French has je vais ‘I go’ from vadere, but nous allons ‘we go’ from ambulare. Galician-Portuguese has a similar example: imos from ire ‘to go’ and vamos from vadere ‘we go’; the former is somewhat disused in modern Portuguese but very ...