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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
toi (from classic French pronunciation of toi) you (singular, oblique) moé: moi (from classic French pronunciation of moi) me pis, pis quoi et puis, puis quoi and, So what moé j'vo [ʒvɔ] or j'va : moi je vais au/a la I will, I am going Çé c'est It is Lé Les The (plural) Ço [sɔ] Ça That Po [pɔ] Pas Not Lo [ʟɔ] Là There
For example: peler (to peel) -> je p-èle (present) / je p-èlerai (futur) / je p-èlerais (conditional). In most -eler and -eter verbs, the writer must either change the e to an è before endings that start with a silent e, or change the l or t to ll or tt. In the rest of these verbs, only one or the other form is allowed.
French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, and they) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns, singular ...
Je les ai pris 'I took them' → Je ne les ai pas pris 'I did not take them' Je voudrais regarder un film et m'endormir 'I would like to watch a movie and fall asleep' → Je voudrais regarder un film et ne pas m'endormir. 'I would like to watch a movie and not fall asleep' Other negative words used in combination with ne are: negative adverbs
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 ...
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 ...
In Quebec, the word tuxedo is used to describe a dinner or evening jacket distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain facings on the jacket's lapels and buttons and a similar stripe along the outseam of the trousers. The word "smoking" is generally used to refer to a tuxedo in France. verge / cour yard As in cour arrière, literally backyard ...