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Connaître and savoir
Discussing this question raised a point about when to use connaître and when to use savoir. The advice given was
generally speaking, connaître is knowing about a topic whereas savoir
is knowing ...
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Is there any general rule to determine the gender of a noun based on its spelling?
For example, words ending by "-ette" are very likey to be feminine.
So, are there other rules that can help to assess the gender?
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Doubles consonnes
Y a-t-il des règles ou des moyens mnémotechniques pour savoir quels mots s'orthographient avec des doubles consonnes quand cela n'affecte pas la prononciation ?
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When to put an accent on the letter E
I've encountered the rule on writing accents:
A vowel, if not at the end of a word, gets accent if situated in the end of a syllable
Examples:
épître (é-pî-tre) ;
pénétrer (pé-né-trer) ;
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