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  2. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    French has a T-V distinction in the second person singular. That is, it uses two different sets of pronouns: tu and vous and their various forms. The usage of tu and vous depends on the kind of relationship (formal or informal) that exists between the speaker and the person with whom they are speaking and the age differences between these subjects. [1]

  3. French verb morphology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    Ils sont plus nombreux que tu ne le crois. — "There are more of them than you think." Expletive ne is found in finite subordinate clauses (never before an infinitive). It is characteristic of literary rather than colloquial style. [4] In other registers French tends to not use any negation at all in such clauses, e.g., J'ai peur que cela se ...

  6. French adverbs - Wikipedia

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    Some adverbs are derived from adjectives in completely irregular fashions, not even using the suffix -ment: bon → bien ("good" → "well") mauvais → mal ("bad" → "badly") meilleur → mieux (the adjective "better" → the adverb "better") traditionally, pire → pis (the adjective "worse" → the adverb "worse") or more commonly, pire → ...

  7. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    Le – (Northern French) "the", masculine singular [citation needed] M'/Mac/Mc/Mck/Mhic/Mic – (Irish, Scottish, and Manx Gaelic) "son". Both Mac and Mc are sometimes written M ac and M c (with superscript ac or c). In some names, Mc is pronounced Mac. Mala – "House of" [citation needed] Na – ณ "at" [citation needed]

  8. Quebec French lexicon - Wikipedia

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    Both the Québécois and the European French accuse each other (and themselves) of using too many anglicisms. A running joke of the difference between European French and Quebec French is that in Europe, on se gare dans un parking (one parks in a carpark) and in Quebec, on se parque dans un stationnement (one parks in a parking lot).

  9. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.