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  2. En passant - Wikipedia

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    The en passant capture places Black in double check and checkmate (in fact, White's bishop is not necessary for the mate). An en passant capture is the only way a double check can be delivered without one of the checking pieces moving, as in this case. The largest known number of en passant captures in one game is three. This record is shared ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    en bloc as a group. en garde "[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 ...

  4. Glossary of ballet - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a rond de jambe en dehors, starting from first position, the foot (either left or right) would first extend tendu front, move to tendu to the side, and then tendu back, and back in again to first position. In a pirouette en dehors, the body turns in the direction of the working leg (the leg raised in retiré passé).

  5. Passepied - Wikipedia

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    Passepied from opera-interlude The Shagreen Bone. The passepied (French pronunciation:, "pass-foot", from a characteristic dance step) is a French court dance.Originating as a kind of Breton branle, it was adapted to courtly use in the 16th century and is found frequently in 18th-century French opera and ballet, particularly in pastoral scenes, and latterly also in baroque instrumental suites ...

  6. Passé simple - Wikipedia

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    The passé simple (French pronunciation: [pase sɛ̃pl], simple past, preterite, or past historic), also called the passé défini (IPA: [pase defini], definite past), is the literary equivalent of the passé composé in the French language, used predominantly in formal writing (including history and literature) and formal speech.

  7. They shall not pass - Wikipedia

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    "They shall not pass" (French: Ils ne passeront pas and French: On ne passe pas; Romanian: Pe aici nu se trece; Spanish: No pasarán) is a slogan, notably used by France in World War I, to express a determination to defend a position against an enemy.

  8. Passé composé - Wikipedia

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    The passé composé is formed by the auxiliary verb, usually the avoir auxiliary, followed by the past participle.The construction is parallel to that of the present perfect (there is no difference in French between perfect and non-perfect forms - although there is an important difference in usage between the perfect tense and the imperfect tense).

  9. Participle - Wikipedia

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    There are eight types of participle suffixes; -en, -esi, -mez, -ar, -di(k/ği)-ecek and -miş [43] [44] An easy way to remember those is a mnemonic taught in Turkish schools: " Anası mezar dikecekmiş ", which has every type of the suffixes, and is still a coherent sentence, translated as "his/her mother is allegedly going to plant a grave ...