what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

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what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby ninuno » Sun May 24, 2020 11:43 pm

m' t' s'
n' qu' d'
l' y en
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby ninuno » Sun May 24, 2020 11:46 pm

that gives

m'y t'y s'y
m'en t'en s'en

n'y n'en
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby Querneus » Mon May 25, 2020 1:25 am

ninuno wrote:that gives

m'y t'y s'y
m'en t'en s'en

n'y n'en

I can think of a few more possibilities than those.

J'ai peur d'en voir les plus mauvais.
'I fear that I'll see the worst ones.' 我怕會看到最不好的。

Elle me convainc d'y retourner.
'She's convincing me of going back (there).' 她說服我該回去。

Il croit qu'en acheter un bon n'est pas facile.
'He thinks buying a good one isn't easy.' 他覺得買好的一個不容易。

Tu ne veux qu'y réfléchir. Quelle est ta décision ?
'You only want to keep thinking about it. What's your decision?' 你只想不斷地思考,決定是什麼呢?
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby smallwhite » Mon May 25, 2020 8:18 am

ninuno wrote:m' t' s'
n' qu' d'
l' y en


m' = pronoun
t' = pronoun
s' = pronoun
n'= particle
qu' = pronoun, conjunction
d' = preposition
l' = pronoun
y = pronoun
en = pronoun, preposition

What are you calling particles?
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby ninuno » Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:18 am

smallwhite wrote:
ninuno wrote:m' t' s'
n' qu' d'
l' y en


m' = pronoun
t' = pronoun
s' = pronoun
n'= particle
qu' = pronoun, conjunction
d' = preposition
l' = pronoun
y = pronoun
en = pronoun, preposition

What are you calling particles?



"all the little stuff" .. i dont know :|
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby ninuno » Fri Jun 05, 2020 1:25 am

so we have

m'y t'y s'y
where s'y shares a homophone with si
so i'll put si there


that gives

m'y t'y s'y
si

m'en t'en s'en
mens sans sang

qu'y qu'en
qui quand

d'y d'en
dit dans dent

n'y n'en
ni


... Im gonna thrown in avoir and etre now
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby Querneus » Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:33 pm

ninuno wrote:where s'y shares a homophone with si
so i'll put si there

that gives

m'y t'y s'y
si

There's also:
- la mie 'a crumb'
- je/il scie 'I/he saws sth', tu scies 'you saw sth', ils scient 'they saw sth', scie ! 'saw (it)!' (conjugations of scier 'to saw sth' 鋸木頭)
- the prefix ci- 'here', e.g. ci-joint, ci-dessous
- the suffix -ci 'this', e.g. celui-ci, cette place-ci

m'en t'en s'en
mens sans sang

- il ment 'he lies' (conjugation of je/tu mens, infinitive mentir)
- je/tu sens 'I/you lie', il sent 'he lies', sens ! 'lie!' (conjugations of sentir)
- le sens 'direction' (only in wrong direction idioms: sens dessus dessous 'upside-down', sens devant arrière 'in a back-to-front direction')
- le cent, les cents 'cent' 貨幣分

qu'y qu'en
qui quand

- le ki (from the Japanese pronunciation of le qi, le ch'i, le chi; refers to the Chinese concept of chi flowing energy, 氣)
- quant 'how much'
- Caen (a pictoresque city in Normandy, France)

d'y d'en
dit dans dent

- je/tu dis 'I/you say', dis ! 'say (it)!' (conjugations of il dit, infinitive dire)
- dix 'ten'

n'y n'en
ni

- le nid 'nest'
- je/il nie 'I deny, he denies', tu nies 'you deny', ils nient 'they deny', nie ! 'deny!' (conjugations of nier)
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby Arnaud » Tue Jun 09, 2020 4:49 am

Do ré mi ...
"mettre" at the past tense: il mit
mi (half): mi-figue, mi-raisin
C'est mimi (cute, it's the familiar/childish version of "mignon")
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby Kraut » Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:08 pm

and in grammatical jargon
In French, elision refers to the suppression of a final unstressed vowel (usually [ə]) immediately before another word beginning with a vowel. The term also refers to the orthographic convention by which the deletion of a vowel is reflected in writing, and indicated with an apostrophe .
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Re: what are the possible combinations of particles in french?

Postby ninuno » Fri Oct 16, 2020 5:15 am

il zy on tété

ils y ont été

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