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Will you have 10/10 on this French test?

2020-06-04T14:02:14.869Z


QUIZ - "Touch" or "touch"? "Slander" or "slander"? Can you overcome these subtleties of the language of Molière?


The subtleties, the little traps, the surprising spelling of certain words ... The French language shelters many rules and exceptions which do not fail to surprise us on a daily basis.

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Did you know, for example, that in the 19th century, a "bottle" could designate a "drunk"? That the term "autodafé" comes from the Portuguese auto da fe , "act of faith"? That the verb “tarabuster” means “to harass”, “to treat roughly” or even, “to hustle”?

Will you get a 10/10 in this French test? Le Figaro offers you, thanks to the illuminating Bescherelle: Adeline Lesot's vocabulary for all , to take the test.

Source: lefigaro

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