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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.
Français fondamental was developed by the Centre d'Etude du Français Élémentaire, which was renamed to the Centre de Recherche et d'Étude pour la Diffusion du Français (CREDIF) in 1959. It was headed by linguist Georges Gougenheim. [1] The Ministry of Education of France sanctioned and promoted it as a method of learning French.
In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated AFF) and negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or utterances. An affirmative (positive) form is used to express the validity or truth of a basic assertion, while a negative form expresses its falsity.
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 ...
The latest stable version of IBM Via Voice was 9.0 and was able to transfer text directly into Microsoft Word. The most important process for the correct use of this software is the so-called 'quick training', and 'enrollment': it consists of reading many specific words and sentences in order to make the software adapt itself to the specific ...
-n = /.n‿/: un ami ("a friend") = /œ̃.n‿a.mi/, mon ami /mɔ̃.n‿a.mi/, aucun ami /o.kœ̃.n‿a.mi/, le Malin Esprit (the Evil Spirit, colloquially the Devil) /lə ma.lɛ̃.n‿ɛs.pʁi/. There is also a type of liaison where an adjective changes its form before a vowel-initial noun: adjectives ending on -ain , -ein , -en , -in or -on ...
The affirmation and glorification of French finds its greatest manifestation in La Défense et illustration de la langue française (The Defense and Illustration of the French Language) (1549) by the poet Joachim du Bellay, which maintained that French, like the Tuscan of Petrarch and Dante Alighieri, was a worthy language for literary ...
Tu as décidé de lui rendre visite, tu es allé voir le film, tu n'étais pas là, je ne sais pas. "You decided to visit them, you went to see the film, you were not there, I don't know." (careful speech) T'as décidé de lui rendre visite, t'es allé voir le film, t'étais pas là, je sais pas. (informal speech)