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The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
France has taken this step in 2012. [1] In Belgium, its use is not recommended, but not forbidden either. In France, calling a young woman "Mademoiselle" is usually considered more polite, and calling a middle-aged woman "Mademoiselle" can be a way to tell her that she looks like she is in her twenties and may therefore be considered flattering.
a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [35] louche
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages . French is a moderately inflected language.
Guy (/ ɡ aɪ / ghy, French:) is a masculine given name derived from an abbreviated version of a Germanic name that began either with witu, meaning wood, or wit, meaning wide. In French, the letter w became gu and the name became Gy or Guido.
Le François, a town on the island of Martinique, France; Lefrançois, a French surname; Saint-François (disambiguation) Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains; françois (language) (IPA [frãˈs(w)ɛ]), a common name describing the French language before the reform of French orthography in 1835.
Gilles Lauzon, (1631–1687) French coppersmith of New France; Gilles Le Breton (died 1553), French Renaissance architect and master-mason; Gilles Lebreton (born 1958), French politician; Gilles Legardinier (born 1965), French novelist; Gilles van Ledenberg (c. 1550 – 1618), Dutch statesman; Gilles Leger (born 1941), Canadian ice hockey player