you
/ju/
Translation
you (English loanword in French context)
Examples
love - phrase France.
I love you - you hear this phrase in English even in France.
' know' .
English words like 'you know' enter the spoken French language.
melange l' '' ''.
This film mixes French and English with lots of 'you' and 'me'.
'see ' ' '.
Young French people often say 'see you' instead of 'à plus tard'.
' miss ' morceau.
The song repeats 'I miss you' throughout the track.
You est un anglicisme ou un mot anglais qui apparait dans le corpus de frequence francais en raison des nombreuses transcriptions de films et series anglophones sous-titres ou doublees partiellement. Sa haute frequence reflete l'influence de la culture anglophone.
Dans le francais quotidien, you s'entend dans des expressions integrees comme thank you ou I love you prononcees en anglais par des locuteurs francophones. Tu et vous sont les equivalents francais. L'emprunt massif de l'anglais dans le francais contemporain est un phenomene linguistique tres etudie.
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Grammar articles
- French Advanced Grammar (C1-C2): The Constructions That Sound Native
- French Articles: Definite, Indefinite, Partitive, and the Article English Speakers Drop
- French Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
- Conjugating French -er Verbs in the Present Tense
- Conjugating French -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
- Conjugating French -re Verbs in the Present Tense
- 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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Go to my review queueThis word is part of lesson 18.