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Because the Russian loanword dacha (дача ) looks like it could be German, the pronunciation / ˈ d ɑː x ə /, with a velar fricative, shows an attempt at marking a word as foreign, but with a sound not originally present in the source word. [14] The more common pronunciation is / ˈ d ɑː tʃ ə /, which sounds closer to the original ...
August Wilhelm Antonius Graf [1] Neidhardt von Gneisenau [2] (27 October 1760 – 23 August 1831) was a Prussian field marshal. He was a prominent figure in the reform of the Prussian military and the War of Liberation .
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 ...
The French term for head waiter (the manager of the service side of a restaurant) is maître d'hôtel (literally "master of the house" or "master of the establishment"); French never uses "d '" stand-alone. Most often used in American English and its usage in the UK is rare. negligée
at the beginning of a word, following a vowel, or rarely for [ɛ] at the end of a word [ø], [œ] eu, œ, œu ё: Villedieu – Вильдьё ё is generally simplified to е in Russian э: Eugène – Эжен Maheu – Маэ at the beginning of a word, or after a vowel [ə], — e – Charles – Шарль e muet: е: De Gaulle – Де ...
August von Gneisenau (1760–1831), Prussian field marshal; Bruno Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1811–1889), Prussian general; One of the German naval ships named after August von Gneisenau: SMS Gneisenau (1879), iron-hulled three-masted frigate, wrecked in 1900; SMS Gneisenau, World War I armoured cruiser, launched in 1906 and sunk in 1914
The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...
French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds: