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In French, most quantifiers are formed using a noun or adverb of quantity and the preposition de (d ' when before a vowel). Quantifiers formed with a noun of quantity and the preposition de include the following: des tas de ("lots of", lit: "piles of") trois kilogrammes de ("three kilograms of") une bouchée de ("a mouthful of")
French grammar is the set of rules by which the ... un bel homme, une belle femme, de beaux ... (Philip the Fair or the Handsome of France, 1268–1314) vs ...
Traditionally, if the relative pronoun was to be the object of a preposition in the clause (other than the de of possession), or the indirect object of the clause's verb, a form of lequel was used, with the preposition placed before it: « la femme de laquelle j'ai parlé » ("the woman about whom I spoke").
Règle de Littré. A liaison consonant should not be pronounced immediately after /ʁ/, as in pars avec lui /paʁ a.vɛk lɥi/, fort agréable /fɔʁ a.ɡʁe.abl/ or vers une solution /vɛʁ yn sɔ.ly.sjɔ̃/. Plural /z/ is recognized as an exception to this rule, and various other counterexamples can be observed, like de part et d'autre /də ...
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
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.
Standard French (in French: le français standard, le français normé, le français neutre ' Neutral French ' or le français international ' International French ') is an unofficial term for a standard variety of the French language. [1] It is a set of spoken and written formal varieties used by the educated francophones of several nations ...
Elision is indicated in the spelling of some compound words, such as presqu'île "peninsula", aujourd'hui "today", and quelqu'un "someone". At the beginnings of words, the aspirated h forbids elision. Example: Le Havre. The mute h, however, requires elision. Example: l'homme. Both types of "h" are silent regardless.