French Prefix: a privatif
Tuesday November 18, 2008
The French prefix a, known as a privatif (privative a), is added to adjectives and nouns to indicate negation or deprivation, and becomes an in front of a vowel or h.
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When you write “alogique - alogical”, do you mean ‘illogical’? I never heard of ‘alogical’ before, maybe only in the USA?
Bonjour -
No, they are two different words.
Alogical (alogique) means “beyond or outside the bounds of logic.”
Illogical (illogique) means “contradicting or disregarding the principles of logic; without logic.”
Laura K. Lawless
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