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Bookmark or Share- Word order with “prochaine”: before or after noun rules?Un jour prochain, que l'on peut remplacer, par bientôt. Pour ne pas prononcer le mot mort et signifier une mort imminente : La fin prochaine [d'un malade en phase terminale]. Usages spéciaux: qui suit chronologiquement (une autre date) : Lundi prochain, le 1er janvier prochain. Antéposé d'un événement, synonyme : suivant:
- choix de mot - Plusieurs jour(née)s / plusieurs an(née)s - French ...Jour and journée: Jour is a day of 24 hours. A journée, is not used for a duration because the meaning is not the same, a journée is the period of the day where the sun is up. It will be followed by the night, and starts with the morning (matinée).
- Tense in "Chaque jour - French Language Stack ExchangeQuand j'étais enfant, chaque jour ma mère ___ un conte. Should the passé composé m'a lu or the imparfait me lisait go there? I tend toward the imparfait because the sentence is about an action that took place regularly in the past, but the use of chaque jour makes me unsure, since the action only took place once each day.
- vocabulaire - Soir vs. soirée - French Language Stack ExchangeJust like the similar pairs jour/journée, an/année, matin/matinée, nuit/nuitée, the short form refers to a unit of time, a calendar element while the second one refer to the matching period of time, something that span over that period.
- What is the difference between jour and journée?If you look at the TLF entries for jour and journée, you will see that both can mean the time during which there is light ("toute la journée", "le jour et la nuit"). But only jour can mean both the daylight (like in "voir le jour = naître" and "lever du jour", "coucher du jour") and the 24-hour period.
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