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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 ...
mise en table table setting. montage editing. le mot juste lit. "the just word"; the right word at the right time. French uses it often in the expression chercher le mot juste (to search for the right word). motif a recurrent thematic element. moue a type of facial expression; pursing together of the lips to indicate dissatisfaction, a pout ...
courses/Faire des courses / Faire les magasins The word for "shop" or "store" in all varieties of French is le magasin. In Quebec, the verb magasiner is used for "shopping", and was naturally created by simply converting the noun. In France, the expression is either faire des courses, faire des achats, faire des emplettes, or faire du shopping.
The buffet style is a variation of the French service in which all of the food is available, at the correct temperature, in a serving space other than the dining table, and guests serve themselves. Buffets can vary from the informal (a gathering of friends in a home, or the serving of brunch at a hotel) to the formal setting of a wedding reception.
The Trésor de la langue française (French pronunciation: [tʁezɔʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; TLF; "Treasury of the French Language"; subtitled Dictionnaire de la langue du XIXe et du XXe siècle (1789–1960)) is a 16-volume dictionary of 19th- and 20th-century French published by the Centre de Recherche pour un Trésor de la Langue Française from 1971 to 1994.
Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française (IPA: [lə p(ə)ti ʁɔbɛʁ də la lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), known as just Petit Robert, is a popular single-volume French dictionary first published by Paul Robert in 1967. It is an abridgement of his eight-volume Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française. [1]
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Robert Estienne published the first Latin-French dictionary, which included information about phonetics, etymology, and grammar. [46] Politically, the first government authority to adopt Modern French as official was the Aosta Valley in 1536, while the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (1539) named French the language of law in the Kingdom of France.