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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. See snout reflex. mousse
Four prepositions can be used between a pro-verb and an object: de, pour, avec, à. De is he most used one, but avec , currently in the third place by the frequency of use, is rapidly catching up. Ericsson explains the tendency by close proximity of this proposition to English "with" and med .
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.
César-Pierre Richelet, bust at Cheminon.. He is the author of the first French dictionary compiled in a methodical way, published under the title of: Dictionnaire françois, contenant les mots et les choses, plusieurs nouvelles remarques sur la langue française, ses expressions propres, figurées et burlesques, la prononciation des mots les plus difficiles, le genre des noms, le régime des ...
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 ...
Aside from être and avoir (considered categories unto themselves), French verbs are traditionally [1] grouped into three conjugation classes (groupes): . The first conjugation class consists of all verbs with infinitives ending in -er, except for the irregular verb aller and (by some accounts) the irregular verbs envoyer and renvoyer; [2] the verbs in this conjugation, which together ...
Faire may refer to: Laissez-faire, a French phrase meaning "let do, let go, let pass" Laissez Faire Books, libertarian bookseller; Maker Faire, event created by Make magazine; Heloise and the Savoir Faire, pop music group; How Weird Street Faire, street fair and electronic music festival in San Francisco
Le langage d'il y a cent ans est très différent de celui d'aujourd'hui. – "The language/usage of one hundred years ago is very different from that of today." In informal speech, il y is typically reduced to [j], as in: Y a [ja] deux bergers et quinze moutons dans le pré. Y aura [joʁa] beaucoup à manger. Y avait [javɛ] personne chez les ...