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Only the AHD lists the word without the accent as the secondary (not preferred) spelling. (AHD shows it hyphenated, the OED does not.) demi-glaze. is a single word in English, but comprised of two French words, demi and glaze. OED lists this, the AHD does not. I confess to being troubled by chauvinism. While I recognize the french word ends in ...
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
abaissement - fall/lowering; abaisser - to lower; abandonner - to abandon; abandonné - abandoned/deserted; abasourdi - stunned; abattage - slaughter; abattant - toilet lid
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.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.
It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [12] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [13] [14] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [15] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...
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Title: Year: Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne (): 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present