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Like elision (as in *je aime → j'aime), liaison can be characterized functionally as a euphonic strategy for avoiding hiatus. This type of analysis is called a synchronic approach. This approach does not explain cases where the first word already ends in a consonant, such as tels‿amis, and is therefore already perfectly euphonic.
"Je T'Aime" (Psychic TV song), 1985 & 1989 singles attributed to pseudonyms for band Psychic TV "Je t'aime" (Lara Fabian song), a song by Lara Fabian from the 1998 album Pure "Je t'aime", a 2008 single by Armand Van Helden "Je t'aime" (Capital T song), a 2020 song by Capital T "Je T'aime" (Joy song), a song by Joy from the 2021 album Hello by Joy
French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]
As in English, this form can generally be replaced by the present or future tense: "I am doing it tomorrow", "I shall do it tomorrow", « Je le fais demain », « Je le ferai demain ». Much like the use of aller ( to go ) to create a near-future tense, the verb venir ( to come ) can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-past tense ( le ...
Between the stem and the inflectional endings that are common across most verbs, there may be a vowel, which in the case of the -er verbs is a silent -e-(in the simple present singular), -é or -ai (in the past participle and the je form of the simple past), and -a-(in the rest of simple past singular and in the past subjunctive).
Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through many phonological, syntactic, and semantic changes. Most of the distinctions present in classical Latin continued to be made, but synthetic forms were often replaced with more analytic ones. Other ...
Many English words and calques have also been integrated in Quebec French, although less than in France. In Quebec, borrowed English words tend to have the same meaning as the English word. In France, they often have a very different meaning; for example 'le smoking' for 'tuxedo'.
Je t'aimais, je t'aime, je t'aimerai" ("I have loved you, I love you and I will love you") is a well-known song by French singer and songwriter Francis Cabrel. It is considered his most definitive song, alongside his other classic " Je l'aime à mourir ".