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  2. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The clitics -moi and -toi become -m' and -t' respectively when followed by either -en or -y. In colloquial French, however, it is possible to keep -moi and -toi intact and change -en and -y to -z-en and -z-y respectively, or to put slot 5 before slot 3, or less commonly, before slot 1 or 2. ex. The imperative sentences corresponding to « Tu m ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Y, Somme - Wikipedia

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    Y's church. Y ( French pronunciation: [i] ⓘ ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France . Y bears the shortest place name in France, and one of the shortest in the world. [3] The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien (ne)s, [4] from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.

  5. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    Also, en masse refers to numerous people or objects (a crowd or a mountain of things). In colloquial Québécois French, it means "a bunch" (as in il y avait du monde en masse, "there was a bunch of people"). en suite as a set (not to be confused with ensuite, meaning "then"). Can refer, in particular, to hotel rooms with attached private ...

  6. French language - Wikipedia

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    French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], or by some speakers, French: [lɑ̃ŋ fʁɑ̃sɛ]) 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 ...

  7. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100–1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  8. French phonology - Wikipedia

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    French phonology is the sound system of French. This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French. Notable phonological features include its uvular r, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds: An example of the above is this:

  9. Close front rounded vowel - Wikipedia

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    The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is y , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y. Across many languages, it is most commonly represented orthographically as ü (in German, Turkish ...