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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche

  3. File:French.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

  4. Dictionnaire de l'Académie française - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...

  5. List of French words of Gaulish origin - Wikipedia

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    The Gaulish language, and presumably its many dialects and closely allied sister languages, left a few hundred words in French and many more in nearby Romance languages, i.e. Franco-Provençal (Eastern France and Western Switzerland), Occitan (Southern France), Catalan, Romansch, Gallo-Italic (Northern Italy), and many of the regional languages of northern France and Belgium collectively known ...

  6. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages . French is a moderately inflected language.

  7. 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.

  8. List of French loanwords in Persian - Wikipedia

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    French Persian (Persian alphabet) Persian (Perso-Latin alphabet) Meaning and usage abat-jour آباژور âbâžor floor lamp, lampshade abcès آبسه âbse abscess: abonnement آبونمان âbonmân subscription abstrait آبستره âbstre abstract acétone استن aseton acetone acide اسید asid acid accolade آکولاد âkolâd

  9. Stringed instrument tunings - Wikipedia

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    * Tuning given is approximate: does not follow western equal temperament Requinto: 6 strings 6 courses. A 2 D 3 G 3 C 4 E 4 A 4: Requinto guitar Mexico 4th above the standard guitar Ronroco: 10 strings 5 courses. Standard Argentine (G 6 /Em7): D 4 D 4 •G 4 G 4 •B 4 B 3 •E 4 E 4 •B 4 B 4. Standard Bolivian (F 6 /Dm7): C 4 C 4 •F 4 F 4 ...