i
/i/
Translation
i (letter / informal abbreviation)
Examples
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The letter i comes after the letter h.
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Dotting the i's means being very clear and precise.
, remplace l'oral.
Between friends, i sometimes replaces oui when speaking.
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The word 'fini' is written with two different i's.
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You forgot the dot on the i.
I est la lettre i, la neuvieme de l'alphabet. Dans le corpus de frequence, sa haute frequence s'explique par son usage comme abreviation ou fragment de dialogue dans des transcriptions de films et series. Mettre les points sur les i (to dot the i's, to be perfectly clear) est une expression figee tres courante.
En phonologie francaise, le son /i/ est une voyelle anterieure ferme. Dans les textes informels et les SMS, i peut remplacer il ou oui. I comme Irene est son code en communication radio standard.
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- French Verb Conjugation: The Complete Rules with Examples
- French Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2): The Things That Stop You at the Plateau
- French Word Order: SVO, the Object Pronoun Inversion, and Six Rules That Cover 90% of Sentences
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