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  2. Raison d'être - Wikipedia

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    Raison d'être / ˌ r eɪ z ɒ̃ ˈ d ɛ t r ə / is a French expression commonly used in English, meaning "reason for being" or "reason to be." Raison d'être may refer to: Music

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...

  4. Being and Nothingness - Wikipedia

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    In Sartre's account, man is a creature haunted by a vision of "completion" (what Sartre calls the ens causa sui, meaning literally "a being that causes itself"), which many religions and philosophers identify as God. Born into the material reality of one's body, in a material universe, one finds oneself inserted into being.

  5. Romance copula - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.

  6. Passé composé - Wikipedia

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    The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).

  7. Ikigai - Wikipedia

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    Ikigai can be described as having a sense of purpose in life, [5] [6] as well as being motivated. [7] According to a study by Michiko Kumano, feeling ikigai as described in Japanese usually means the feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment that follows when people pursue their passions. [8]

  8. The Hardest Working Royal of 2024 Is... - AOL

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    Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images. Princess Anne secured the top spot, yet again, with 217 royal engagements and a 2.4% increase from 2023, according to the report.November was her busiest month ...

  9. French verbs - Wikipedia

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    Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...