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a class of women of ill repute; a fringe group or subculture. Fell out of use in the French language in the 19th century. Frenchmen still use une demi-mondaine to qualify a woman that lives (exclusively or partially) off the commerce of her charms but in a high-life style. double entendre
The following words are commonly used and included in French dictionaries. le pull: E. pullover, sweater, jersey. le shampooing, [1] the shampoo; le scoop, in the context of a news story or as a simile based on that context. While the word is in common use, the Académie française recommends a French synonym, "exclusivité". [2] le selfie.
French-language names (1 C) P. French proverbs (1 P) Pages in category "French words and phrases" The following 160 pages are in this category, out of 160 total.
English words of French origin should be distinguished from French words and expressions in English. Although French is mostly derived from Latin, important other word sources are Gaulish and some Germanic languages, especially Old Frankish. Since English is of Germanic origin, words that have entered English from French borrowings of Germanic ...
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym , with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
Normative Swedish language spelling dictionary, which includes only commonly used words, currently includes ~126,000 words, [85] after having added 13,500 and removed 9,000 in its latest edition, SAOL 14, plus an additional 200,000 still encountered words in earlier editions. [86] [87] Eastern Armenian: 125,000
The Romanian verb a închiria, the French verb louer, the Afrikaans verb huur, the Finnish verb vuokrata [20] and the Spanish alquilar [10] and arrendar [21] mean "to rent" (as the lessee does) as well as "to let" (as the lessor does). The English verb rent can also describe either the lessee's or the lessor's role.
Arabic, especially the Maghrebi Arabic dialects, is the second-most common language in French homes, with several million speakers. [12] Berber languages from North Africans are one of the most spoken languages in France, about 2,200,000 speakers.