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pièce d'occasion "occasional piece"; item written or composed for a special occasion. In French, it means "second-hand hardware." Can be shortened as pièce d'occas ' or even occas ' (pronounced /okaz/). portmanteau (pl. portmanteaux) In English, a portmanteau is a large piece of luggage for clothes that opens (like a book or a diptych) into ...
In many occasions throughout the document, he discusses operations on functions to not only describe ordinary functions of an independent variable but also to describe operators, such as difference and differential operators. [7] It is here where we first see a formal definition of the distributive property. Servois asserts the following statement:
A special Commission (Commission du dictionnaire) composed of several (but not all) of the members of the Académie undertakes the compilation of the dictionary.It has published thirteen editions of the dictionary, of which three were preliminary, eight were complete, and two were supplements for specialised words. [2]
In many cases, a single etymological root appears in French in a "popular" or native form, inherited from Vulgar Latin, and a learned form, borrowed later from Classical Latin. The following pairs consist of a native noun and a learned adjective: brother: frère / fraternel from Latin frater / fraternalis
Many nouns ending in -e preceded by double consonants are also masculine (e.g. un cadre, un arbre, un signe, un meuble). Nonetheless, a noun that seems masculine judging by its ending might actually be feminine e.g., la peau 'the skin', une dent 'a tooth' or vice versa e.g., le coude 'the elbow', un squelette 'a skeleton' are masculine.
Secrétariat du Traité sur l'Antarctique Buenos Aires, Argentina BIE: 2 (English) Bureau International des Expositions Paris, France BIPM: 2 (English) Bureau international des poids et mesures Sèvres, France CAS: 2 (English) Tribunal Arbitral du Sport Lausanne, Switzerland CCJ: 3 (English, Dutch) Cour Caribéenne de Justice
The formalized service à la française was a creation of the Baroque period, helped by the growth of published cookbooks setting out grand dining as it was practiced at the French court, led by François Pierre de la Varenne's Le Cuisinier françois (1651) and Le Pâtissier françois (1653).
The French Wikipedia (French: Wikipédia en français) is the French-language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.This edition was started on 23 March 2001, two months after the official creation of Wikipedia. [1]