Pronunciation Flashcards
Chaude
Hot (with fem. Pronounce the d)
Trois
Three
Quatre
Four (~katr)
Désolé
Sorry
la même chose
The same thing
L’eau
The water (rhymes with shoe)
Le pain
The bread (le rhymes with lupin but shorter, ai is Man but with lips closer together, and n is like Urdu nasal N)
Ou
Or (like shoe but slightly shorter)
où
Where (like ou but a slightly descending tone?)
deux
two (almost like ü i.e. the fronted u in dude)
Les yeux
The eyes (s pronounced before y; rhymes with deux)
Qu’il
That he (pronounced almost like boat keel)
À cela
To this (à is like bat; e is like je)
il faut les récupérer
we must recover them (il like eel, faut like “foe”, s in les is silent, é like désolé)
comme
As (like ö + maybe lengthened by the e and double consonant?)
hommes
Men (rhymes with ö in comme and def a little longer than a typical vowel)
s’engagèrent
engaged (s’en pronounced without any stop/pause)
Et le
And the ( pronounced w/o t)
Est sinistre
Is sinister (like bay, and seeneest)
Était
Was (é like Je but with slightly rising tone; ait rhymes with say but slightly shorter)
étaient
were (sounds exactly like était, maybe sometimes slightly longer)
être
To be (ê like set, but with a slightly raised tone; final e silent)
ses gyroscopes
his gyroscopes (both final s’s are silent)
d’un autre côté
on another side (d’un rhymes with bun, au like boot, côté rhymes with au but higher accented/pitched slightly; é rhymes with désolé)
supposait
supposed (ait almost rhymes with say)
se disait-il
he said to himself (se like je; I like bee, t in ait pronounced)
elle pense que
she thinks that (elle rhymes with sell; que rhymes with stew, but shorter)
aucune des
none of the (rhymes with go, and then sounds like cyün)
