Verb of the week: épeler
Thursday September 4, 2008
Simple verb conjugations, similarly conjugated verbs (if any), and links to related lessons for this common French verb.
French verb conjugator
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French verb conjugator
Mot du jour: tenter
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Can anyone tell me why there are so many French words beginning with ‘é’ like épeler, that are similar to English equivalents when the ‘é’ is replaced by ’s’ ? Some examples are…
épeler - spel(l)
état - stat(e)
école - sc(h)o(o)l
étudier - stud(y)
écrou - scr(ew)
écume - scum
épice - spice
…there are many more examples. Can anyone throw some light on this?
this is just my opinion like all answers in this unanswerable subject as such.
i’d say there is no one reason. sometimes people of richer or poorer classes, and also accents in different regions try to distinguish themselves from each other. eventually these accents or ways of speaking over hundreds of years become the way to say them and then evntually when the phonetical writing of words came into use the way to say it became slightly more permanent.
anyhow if it’s write or wrong hope it’s some good to you
also maybe a way to help distinguish the definate article les…
later