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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    cachet. lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque.

  3. French language - Wikipedia

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    French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives ...

  4. Academic ranks in France - Wikipedia

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    The rank has three pay grades: 2nd class, 1st class, and exceptional class. Maître de conférences (MCF, associate professor), is the second rank of the faculty path in French academia. The rank has two pay grades: normal class and outstanding class ("hors-classe": "H.C."). a law full professor wearing his academic robe.

  5. Circumflex in French - Wikipedia

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    Sylvius used the circumflex to indicate so-called "false diphthongs".Early modern French as spoken in Sylvius' time had coalesced all its true diphthongs into phonetic monophthongs; that is, a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.

  6. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    French grammar is the set of rules by which the French language creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other Romance languages. French is a moderately inflected language. Nouns and most pronouns are inflected for number (singular or plural, though in most nouns the plural is pronounced ...

  7. Liaison (French) - Wikipedia

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    For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In French, liaison (French pronunciation: [ljɛzɔ̃] ⓘ) is the pronunciation of a linking consonant between two words in an appropriate phonetic and syntactic context. For example, the word les ('the') is pronounced /le/, the word amis ('friends') is ...

  8. Iel (pronoun) - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Iel (pronoun) Iel is a neo-pronoun in the French language intended as an alternative to the gender-specific pronouns elle (" she ") and il (" he "). [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] It has been adopted by the Le Robert dictionary but is not officially accepted by the Académie Française. [ 4 ]

  9. Société par actions simplifiée - Wikipedia

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    Société par actions simplifiée[1] (SAS; simplified joint-stock company in British English or simplified corporation in American English) is a French type of business entity. It is the first hybrid entity [definition needed] enacted under French law and based on common law principles rather than civil. [clarification needed] It is similar to ...