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The French definite article derives from a Latin distal demonstrative, ille. [1] It evolved from the Old French article system, which shared resemblance to modern English and acquired the marking of generic nouns. [2] This practise was common by the 17th century, although it has been argued that this became widely used as early as in the 13th ...
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 ...
if this initial word is a definite article (le, la, les, l'), both the article and its noun (and any modifier between the article and the noun) are capitalized (e.g. Le Grand Meaulnes; La Grande Illusion) if the initial word is a modifier followed by a noun, the entire noun phrase is likewise capitalized (e.g. Tristes Tropiques) However:
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 ...
With the start of a new year on Jan. 1, 2025, comes the emergence of a new generation. 2025 marks the end of Generation Alpha and the start of Generation Beta, a cohort that will include all ...
This article follows the classification verb by verb of the Dictionary of the Academie Francaise [1] though better descriptions of the three group system are to be found on the site of Le Figaro, [2] in a short article published by the Academy of Montpellier [3] or on the Quebec government page [4]
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From January 2008 to May 2009, if you bought shares in companies when Richard C. Perry joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -38.5 percent return on your investment, compared to a -38.2 percent return from the S&P 500.