Pour faciliter la lecture, et In order to read and prola prononciation des mots sui- nounce well thefollowing words, vans, il faut faire observer à Learners fhould notice the subses Écoliers que, sequent obfervations; 19, La Diphthongue o-i fe if, The Diphthong oi is prononce comme o-e dans plu- pronounced like o-è in several fieurs mots, et dans d'autres words, and in others, it takes elle n'a que le simple son de only the fingle sound of è, with l'è grave; comme on peut le the grave accent; as may be voir dans la table générale des feeń, by referring to the display Diphthongues, p. 7. of our Diphthongs, p. 7. EX EM PLES: Prononcez è *. Chassois, Hachois, Devoir, Lavoir, Devoit, Lavoit. 2°, Qurand une fyllabe finit 2dly; When a Jyllable teravec un e fans accent, on pro- minates with an e not accented, nonce fortement la consonne the foregoing consonant is to be qui le précède, et le ne se pronounced Atrongly, and the e prononce point. is to have no sound. E XE M P L E S : Ecrivez, Lifez, Faufle, Fauss. Gêne, Gên, Hupe, Juste, Just. Hup. Perle, Perl. * The final consonant of these and the like words is not pronounced. 3°, II 30, Il ne faut point pro- 3dly. These three letters ent noncer ces trois lettres ent à must not be pronounced at the la fin d'un mot avec lequel end of a word with which the s'accordent les pronoms per personal Pronouns ils and elles sonnels il et elles. (they) do or can agree. * There areffome exceptions to this rule, which are inserted in the dissertation 'on this Letter see the Analyse des fons, &c. p. 66. FRENCH FRENCH WORDS of Two SYLLABLES, With the English Significations to each Word. LAMB had (1) French. English, friend a-vis advice a-voir (0-2) to have. a-vois (2) ab-sent (ap) absent ab-fous (ap): absolved ac-cès access ac-teur actor ac-tif active ad-mis admitted ai-greur Fourness ai-me loves (he) ai-mé loved ai-ment (ils) love (they) ai-né eldest son ai-sé (zé) am-bre amber an-chois (o-e) anchovy an-neau ring ar-bre tree ar-gent (jan) : silver ar-mé ar-rhes earneft as-faut afault al-fez (JC) enough af-fis seated at-trait allurement au-cun any au-près near au-tour about, round au-vent (vang) penthouse. French: English. BABIL (bi) PRATTLE ba-din playful ba-lai broom bai-Té (ze) kifed bal-con balcony ban-de band. ban-ni banished ban-quct (kė) banquet bar-be. beard baf-fin bafon be-deau beadle bé-ni blefled ber-ger Shepherd ber-ceau cradle beu-voit (ve) drank (he) beur-re butter bi-ble bible bi-jou jewel bla-me blame bla-mé blamed bla-ment (ils) blame (they) blan-cheur whiteness bler-fé wounded blu-teau bolter boi-teux (0-ė) lame boil-feau bushel bor-dent (ils) border they ( buu-che mouth bou-quet (kè) nosegay bou-ton bution brol-se brush brus-que abrubt. CA-CHET easy armed coach-man French. English. French. Englifh. CA-chet (mè) SEAL chaf-feur hunter ca-chot dungeon chal-foir (0-ė) driver (a tool) ca-dran dial chau-dron large kettle cal-me calm chaus-Ion fock cam-pé encamped che-min way can-deur candour cher-cher to seek cap-tif captive chi-che ftingy car-pe care cho-qué (ké) shocked car-ré Square ci-seau (zo) chisel cal-que belmet clar-té clearnefs cau-le (ze). cauje clé-ment merciful cau-sé caused clo-che hell cé-dant yielding cloi-tre (o-è) cloister cé-dé yielded clou-é nailed cè-dent (ils) yield (i hey) co-cher cer-cle circle co-chon hog, pig, cer-fant ceasing coif-fe (5-ė) hood cef-sent (ils) cease (they) com-té county cha-cur every one cor-beau raven cha-grin grief cou-leur colour chai-se (ze) chair cou-rent (ils) run (they) cham-bre chamber cou-teau knife chan-gé changed crain-dre to fear chan-fon Song cré-dit credit chan-té Jung cri-ble sieve chan-tois (tè) Jung (1) cro-chet (he) hook chan-teur finger croi-re (o-e) to believe chan-tre charifter crot-té dirty char-bon. coal crou-te cruf char-gé charged cru-che pitcher char-gent (ils) charge (they), cu-ve, char-mé charmed Small tub char-mant charming cul-te worship char-mentfils) charm (they) cy-près DA-MAS large tub Cu-veau cypress dé-çu en-cens en-cre French. English. DAMASK deceived . already ироп | def-tin destiny de-voir (o-e) to owe de-voit (ve) lowed (he) di-re to tell, Say dic-té di Etated dif-cours discourse doc-teur doctor don-né given don-nant giving dun-nent ils) give (they) dor-mant Neeping dor-ment (its) Deep (they) dor-meur fleeper dou-blé doubled dou-ceur Sweetness dou-teux doubtful dou-ze. twelve dra-gon dragon dres-loir (ne). dreler du-rant during dur-cir to harden. French. English, written edi Et e.lu elected ef-fet (fe) effect ef-fort endeavour em-pli filled up em-plir to fill up em-ploi (9-ė) employ en-ceint inclosed incense ink en-fant child en-fer bell en-fler to swell between en-tré entered er-rant wandering er-rent (ils) wander (They) er-reur error el-poir (o-e) hope er-sai effay euf-sent (ils) Bave(theymighr) cx-act exaCZ ex-cès excefs ex-clus excluded ex-ploit (a-e') exploit ex-trait extraci. |