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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of French on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of French in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Old Cat and the Young Mouse (Le vieux chat et la jeune souris) is a late fable by Jean de la Fontaine (XII.5). [1] Written towards the end of his life, its grim conclusion is that 'Youth thinks its every wish will gain success; Old age is pitiless.'
à la short for (ellipsis of) à la manière de; in the manner of/in the style of [1]à la carte lit. "on the card, i.e. menu". In restaurants it refers to ordering individual dishes from the menu rather than a fixed-price meal.
An encore is then performed, featuring Izzard delivering the plot of the film Speed in French and explaining how his schoolboy French, ("la souris est sous la table, le chat est sur la chaise, et le singe est sur la branche") serves him in France itself.
However, in colloquial speech the expressions moi-z-en, toi-z-en; moi-z-y and toi-z-y have become widespread (also registered as -z’en and -z’y). The possible reason for this phonological trend is because it follows the same logic, in which all verbs ending on en and y always use the liaison /z‿/ , like in parles-en /paʁlz‿ɑ̃/ (talk ...
Une souris verte, Qui courait dans l'herbe, Je l'attrape par la queue, Je la montre à ces messieurs. Ces messieurs me disent : Trempez-la dans l'huile, Trempez-la dans l'eau, Ça fera un escargot tout chaud. Je la mets dans un tiroir, Elle me dit qu'il fait trop noir. (1) Je la mets dans mon chapeau, Elle me dit qu'il fait trop chaud. (2)
La plume de ma tante ("the quill of my aunt") is a phrase attributed to elementary French language instruction (possibly as early as the 19th century [1]) and used as an example of grammatically correct phrases with limited practical application that are sometimes taught in introductory foreign language texts.
As the traditional pronunciation of Latin has evolved alongside English since the Middle Ages, the page detailing English's phonological evolution from Middle English (in this case, from the Middle-English-Latin pronunciation roughly midway through the 1400-1600 section) can give a better idea of what exactly has happened, and this is just an ...