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save me.
Ok, this question has been buggine me long enough - I can't find the answer anywhere. aFrenchie, please help me or anyone else with an answer for that matter.
As far as I know, you use contractions in french when you are using a personal pronoun infront of a word that starts with a vowel or a mute h. If this is true, why do people say (and write) j'suis instead of je suis. Is it just becuase it is easier to say? or something else? |
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I first heard it in amelie m'a dit (j'suis pas belle), and I really didn't understand why the contraction was made.
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yeah I've heard it to I'll ask my French teacher tommorow
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Thanks, and who knows? You may stump him/her!
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dout that she used to live in France been studing it for over thirty years
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save me??? I thought you were in some real trouble like you were not liking Alizee any more and stuff. but glad you are not in deep trouble.
I have already given up on learning French, just couldn't grasp it! So save me! |
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really I find it quite easy to learn
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Haha, that kind of contraction is just used to sound cute. Also, when you speak French quickly, je suis truly sounds like j'suis anyway - so it is a way to make written French sound like spoken French.
It is NOT grammatically correct to do so - You would never find that in any formal piece of French writing. other examples: tite/p'tite = petite kelkes unes = quelques unes Last edited by garçoncanadien; 09-15-2006 at 07:00 AM.. |
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oh PS - that contraction is also a sly way to mash two words into one syllable, if you needed to make some lyrics match the music better, like in Farmer's case.
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