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1. a. Nude. b. In a natural state: an au naturel hairstyle. 2. Cooked simply. au pair a young foreigner who does domestic chores in exchange for room and board. In France, those chores are mainly child care/education. au revoir ! "See you later!" In French, a contraction of Au plaisir de vous revoir (to the pleasure of seeing you again).
In the informal French of France, sur + le also becomes su'l, such as L'dimanche, i'est su'l pont dès 8 heures du mat ('On Sundays, he's hard at work from 8 am'). No other contractions are used. Some initial consonants are also reduced: [jœ̈l] gueule (France, [ɡœ̈l]), especially in the construction ta gueule [ta jœ̈l] "shut up".
French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:
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A profound change in very late spoken Latin (Vulgar Latin, the forerunner of all the Romance languages) was the restructuring of the vowel system of Classical Latin.Latin had thirteen distinct vowels: ten pure vowels (long and short versions of a, e, i, o, u ), and three diphthongs ( ae, oe, au ). [2]
Rued Langgaard (1893–1952), Danish composer This page was last edited on 2 January 2025, at 00:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Old speakers pronounce roi ('king') [wɛ], because the traditional Parisian pronunciation was like [rwɛ]. But in modern standard Acadian French, it is pronounced [wa] . Even where there is no circumflex , there are some words which are phonemically pronounced /wɑ/ and the phoneme is pronounced as [wɑ] in formal speech but [wɔ] in informal ...
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu, a historical building (Monument historique) Comédie-Française, main hall (Salle Richelieu) The old Fauré Le Page store located 8, Rue de Richelieu at the corner of the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue de Montpensier. The famous firearms played an active role to the French Revolution by ...