/fʁɑ̃.kɔ.fɔn/
Translation
French-speaking
Word origin
From franco- ('French') plus the Greek -phone ('sound, voice'), the same building block as telephone and microphone.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- φωνή (phōnē)
- English cognates
- telephone, phonetic
Grammar
Examples
Québec Canada.
Quebec is a French-speaking province of Canada.
Afrique.
There are many French-speaking countries in Africa.
correspondante ' .
My pen pal is a French speaker but she isn't French.
describes anyone who speaks French, whatever their nationality: it covers a Senegalese diplomat, a Québécois farmer and a French Parisian alike. Don't translate it as "French" (that's ); a francophone country is not necessarily France.
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