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Title varies: t. 1-5, L'art de verifier les dates des faits historiques, des inscriptions, des chroniques, et autres anciens monuments avant l'ere chretienne...et formant la premiere partie...Paris, 1819 [t. 6-24] L'art de verifier les dates...depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur. Tome premiere-dix huitieme. Paris 1818-19
"in place (of)"; partially translated from the existing French phrase au lieu (de). léger de main (legerdemain) "light of hand": sleight of hand, usually in the context of deception or the art of stage magic tricks. Meaningless in French; the equivalent is un tour de passe-passe. maître d' translates literally as master o'.
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.
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 ...
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The majority of English-language newspapers and media publications in India use mmmm dd, yyyy. [citation needed] IS 7900:2001 Indonesia: No: Yes: Rarely: On English-written materials, Indonesians tend to use the M-D-Y but was more widely used in non-governmental contexts. [citation needed] English-language governmental and academic documents ...
French verbs have a large number of simple (one-word) forms. These are composed of two distinct parts: the stem (or root, or radix), which indicates which verb it is, and the ending (inflection), which indicates the verb's tense (imperfect, present, future etc.) and mood and its subject's person (I, you, he/she etc.) and number, though many endings can correspond to multiple tense-mood-subject ...
French usage consistently places the day first when writing the full date. The standard all-numeric date format is common between English and French: [8] [le] jeudi 7 janvier 2016 [le] 7 janvier 2016; 2016-01-07 (the hyphens can be replaced with non-breaking spaces or omitted [9]: 40 )