état de choses
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14 characters
Language
French
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état de choses is aFrenchnoun. It means: Situation spécifique. Ensemble de circonstances. Pronounced \e.ta də ʃoz\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | état de choses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ta də ʃoz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for état de choses is 14 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ta də ʃoz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for état de choses in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is état de choses, spelled É-T-A-T- -D-E- -C-H-O-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situation spécifique. Ensemble de circonstances.
- 2Sens d’une proposition sans temps. Par exemple, dans la phrase j’ai rencontré un ami, l’état de choses est « moi rencontrer un ami ». Le temps grammatical est le placement d’un état de choses sur le temps au point de vue du locuteur. Quand on trouve quelqu’un après l’avoir cherché, on peut dire Ah, vous étiez là ! même s’il est maintenant là, parce que l’on place cet état de choses dans le passé où on le cherchait.
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