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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 "à la carte" rather than a fixed-price meal "menu".
One must be aware, firstly, that word-final -x is a medieval shorthand for -us (in Old French people wrote chevax for chevaus, later written chevaux when the idea behind this -x was forgotten) (except in words like voix and noix where 's' was changed to 'x' by restoration of Latin usage (vox and nux)).
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional, meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional, allowing translation to and from both languages ...
Fuchien Province [I] [1] (Mandarin pronunciation: [fǔ.tɕjɛ̂n] ⓘ), also romanized as Fujian and rendered as Fukien, is a de jure administrative division of Taiwan (ROC). Provinces remain a titular division as a part of the Constitution of the Republic of China , but are no longer considered to have any practical administrative function.
French pronunciation: [ɛɡzɑ̃pl] Without the label: {{IPA|fr|ɛɡzɑ̃pl|}} yields: [ɛɡzɑ̃pl] If the first parameter is an IETF language tag and the second a transcription, as in the above, {} automatically provides a label and, if a dedicated key for the language exists, links the transcription to the key.
The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...
The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database.
In French, the final e is silent and the word is pronounced . The word cadre is sometimes pronounced / ˈ k ɑː d r eɪ / in English, as though it were of Spanish origin. In French, the final e is silent and a common English pronunciation is / ˈ k ɑː d r ə /. [8]