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France most commonly records the date using the day-month-year order with an oblique stroke or slash (”/”) as the separator with numerical values, for example, 31/12/1992. The 24-hour clock is used to express time, using the lowercase letter "h" as the separator in between hours and minutes, for example, 14 h 05.
Spanish: d de mmmm de yyyy Qatar: No: Yes: No [140] Réunion: No: Yes: No Romania: No: Yes: No (dd.mm.yyyy) [141] [142] Also widely used: (d)d-mmm-yyyy (3 letters of month name with the notable exception of Nov for November, which would otherwise be noiembrie) and (d)d-XII-yyyy (month number as a Roman numeral with lines above AND below, slowly ...
What the French call complément d'objet indirect is a complement introduced by an essentially void à or de (at least in the case of a noun) required by some particular, otherwise intransitive, verbs: e.g. Les cambrioleurs ont profité de mon absence 'the robbers took advantage of my absence' — but the essentially synonymous les cambrioleurs ...
In French, the quarters are expressed as additions or subtractions of the full hour: sept heures et quart (literally "seven hours and quarter"), sept heures et demie ("seven hours and half"), huit heures moins le quart ("eight hours less the quarter"). It is also common to use this format in Portuguese, specifically in the northern part of ...
short for à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [2] à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu"; In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes rather than a fixed-price meal. à propos regarding/concerning (the correct French syntax is à propos de) aide-de-camp
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The prepositions à (' to, at ') and de (' of, from ') form contracted forms with the masculine and plural articles le and les: au, du, aux, and des, respectively.. Like the, the French definite article is used with a noun referring to a specific item when both the speaker and the audience know what the item is.
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