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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]
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 ...
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 ...
The result produces unexpected and even irrational new meanings, and is a bit similar to van Rooten’s technique when he wrote Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames. The two books differ in that Roussel’s technique doesn’t involve bilingualism or humor, at least not in the same way.
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.
Conjugation is the variation in the endings of verbs (inflections) depending on the person (I, you, we, etc), tense (present, future, etc.) and mood (indicative ...
Se makes the verb refer to itself (reflexive form) [1] which often functions as a shorter way to form the passive: li frontieras esset cludet = li frontieras cludet se (the borders were closed). The progressive tense (- nt ) is not used with the same frequency as in English (what are you doing? = quo tu fa ?, not quo tu es fant ?).
A pejorative suffix is a suffix that attaches a negative meaning to the word or word-stem preceding it. There is frequent overlap between this and the diminutive form.. The pejorative suffix may add the sense of "a despicable example of the preceding," as in Spanish -ejo (see below).