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French
Pronunciation
Preposition
d’après
- according to (in the opinion of)
- Synonym: selon
- after, following a model; correspondingly, in accordance with
1936, Maurice Grevisse, André Goosse, editors, Le bon usage, 14th edition, De Boeck Duculot, Éditions De Boeck Université, published 2008, →ISBN, §1148, page 1500:Malgré que a été formé sur la préposition malgré, d’après le modèle de nombreuses locutions conjonctives correspondant à des prépositions (avant que, après que, dès que, sans que, etc.).- Malgré que was formed from the preposition malgré , following the model of many conjunctions corresponding to prepositions (avant que , après que , dès que , sans que , etc.).
- judging by, in the light of, given
- Synonym: à en juger par
Usage notes
- In his work on French pronunciation, Pierre Fouché indicates that phonological liaison is not made between the adverb après and a subsequent vowel-initial word, but that liaison is optionally made when such word follows a prepositional use of après or the prepositive locution d'après.[1]
- d’après une grande majorité d’entre eux ― /d‿a.pʁɛ.yn/ or /d‿a.pʁɛ.z‿yn.ɡʁɑ̃d.ma.ʒɔ.ʁi.te.d‿ɑ̃.tʁ‿ø/
References
- ^ Pierre Fouché (1959) Traité de prononciation française (in French), →ISBN, pages 462, 477
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