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André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world.It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal, Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
"[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term. en passant in passing; term used in chess and in neurobiology ("synapse en passant.") En plein air en plein air lit. "in the open air"; particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors. en pointe en pointe (in ...
French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
Misspellings in French are a subset of errors in French orthography. Many errors are caused by homonyms; for example, French contains hundreds of words ending with IPA [εn] written as -ène, -en, -enne or -aine. [1] Many French words end with silent consonants, lettres muettes, creating, in effect, homonyms.
Reverso is a French company specialized in AI-based language tools, translation aids, and language services. [2] These include online translation based on neural machine translation (NMT), contextual dictionaries, online bilingual concordances, grammar and spell checking and conjugation tools.
Nicolas or Nicolás may refer to masculine given names cognate to English Nicholas.The given name Nicolas is widely used in Brazil (Portuguese pronunciation:) and France (French pronunciation:).
Maurice is a traditionally masculine given name, also used as a surname.It originates as a French name derived from the Latin Mauritius or Mauricius and was subsequently used in other languages.
Gilles Ségal (1929–2014), French actor, mime, and playwright; Gilles-Éric Séralini (born 1960), French molecular biologist, political advisor, and anti-GMO activist; Gilles Servat (born 1945), French singer-songwriter; Gilles Simeoni (born 1967), Corsican politician; Gilles Simon (born 1958), French Formula One racing driver