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a small pickled cucumber; French for "little horn". cortège a funeral procession; in French has a broader meaning and refers to all kinds of processions. coup de foudre lit. "thunderbolt" ("strike of thunder"); a sudden unforeseen event, usually used to describe love at first sight. coup d'état political coup, government overthrow coup de grâce
French is an official language of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, where 31% of the population was estimated to speak it in 2023. [53] In the French special collectivity of New Caledonia, 97% of the population can speak, read and write French [99] while in French Polynesia this figure is 95%, [100] and in the French collectivity of Wallis ...
Métis French is a variety of Canadian French with some added characters such as Ññ, Áá, Óó, and Ææ (from older French spellings) (example, il ñá ócun nævus sur ce garçon English: "there is no birthmark on this boy") and words loaned from indigenous languages such as Ojibwe, Beaver and Cree.
French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1] The following is a list of sovereign states and territories where French is an official or de facto language.
The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Community Survey, [1] making French the seventh most spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish (of which it is the second Romance language to be spoken after the latter), Chinese, Tagalog ...
Belgian French (French: français de Belgique) is the variety of French spoken mainly among the French Community of Belgium, alongside related Oïl languages of the region such as Walloon, Picard, Champenois, and Lorrain (Gaumais). The French language spoken in Belgium differs very little from that of France or Switzerland.
Cour in Quebec is a backyard (jardin in French), whereas in France cour has dropped this meaning and primarily means a courtyard (as well as other meanings like court). However, in some areas of France, such as in the mining regions of northern France, cour still means backyard.
galé [French 'galeux']: Pejorative description of someone with a scabby rash or itchy skin disease. e.g. "Look at his arms--they galé!" [4] ladjabless [French 'La Diablesse']: A devil woman from Caribbean folklore. [6] lougarou [French 'loup-garou']: A werewolf. shado beni [French 'chardon béni']: Eryngium foetidum, an herb used for cooking ...