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  2. RSVP - Wikipedia

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    RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it please you"), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned.

  3. Please - Wikipedia

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    Please is a word used in the English language to indicate politeness and respect while making a request. Derived from shortening the phrase "if you please" or "if it please(s) you", the term has taken on substantial nuance based on its intonation and the relationship between the persons between whom it is used.

  4. 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 ...

  5. If You Please - Wikipedia

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    If You Please (S'il Vous Plaît) is a Dada–Surrealist play co-written by the French surrealist writer and theorist André Breton and poet and novelist Philippe Soupault.. If You Please was written several years before the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto when Breton was primarily associated with Dada.

  6. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  7. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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    Since English is of Germanic origin, words that have entered English from French borrowings of Germanic words might not look especially French. Latin accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language. As both English and French have taken many words from Latin, determining whether a given Latin word came ...

  8. Ces soirées-là - Wikipedia

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    "Ces soirées-là" (French pronunciation: [se swaʁe la], lit. ' These evenings ') is a 2000 song recorded by French singer/rapper Yannick.It was the second single from his debut album C'est ça qu'on aime and was released in March 2000.

  9. Ne me quitte pas - Wikipedia

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    Caro Emerald as a digital download performed in both French and English. 2017 Wyclef Jean on J'ouvert (EP). Gela Guralia 23 June in Saint-Petersburg in both French and English; Arabic. 2012: Mashrou' Leila's version "ما تتركني هيك - ne me quitte pas". Indie band from Lebanon performed the cover-version at Paleo Festival Nyon ...