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Beau vs Bel when noun is not directly after
Google NGrams only find occurrences of bel et when the noun starts with a vowel and only occurrences of beau et when it starts with a consonant:
Note: adgencement is the 16th century spelling:
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
If I can hazard a guess, it's English's bias towards specificity in preposition choice that prompted your question. It's also what makes it somewhat irrelevant.
In French,
You don't always need to ...
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
The tournure "prendre dans" is definitely ordinary, here meaning "from the inside" or "out of". It's the normal way of saying it, and as a native speaker, I even had ...
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Why does Flaubert use “prendre dans”?
Does "dans" often mean "from inside"?
It doesn't, neither from Flaubert or any dialect. Dans just means that the handkerchief was located inside the toque. There is no need to ...
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