No longer silent?
I finished lesson 2 of level 2 tonight. In that lesson was introduced that adjectives have gender and that commonly an "e" is added to the end of the adjective to present it's feminine form. The words petit and grand were used as examples, their feminine forms being petite and grande. When these two words are pronounced the "t" in petite and the "d" in grande are no longer silent because they are no longer the last letter in the word.
It made me think about plural nouns. Up until now we've been taught that just like in English, you normally add an "s" to the end of a noun to make it plural. However I hadn't noticed, if you add an "s" to the end of a word that previously ended with another consonant which was previously silent, is it now pronounced? For example bâtiment, the "t" is silent, but if you have bâtiments, do you now pronounce the "t"?
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Open Nov 17, 2012 - 07:53 AM
French, French > Grammar