prendre langue
Letters
14 characters
Language
French
word origin
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0
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prendre langue is aFrenchverb. It means: S’informer de ce qui se passe, de l’état d’une affaire, du caractère, des dispositions de ceux avec qui l’on doit traiter. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə lɑ̃ɡ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre langue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃.dʁə lɑ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for prendre langue is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə lɑ̃ɡ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "S’informer de ce qui se passe, de l’état d’une affaire, du caractère, des dispositions de ceux avec qui l’on doit traiter.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prendre langue in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 prendre langue, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-A-N-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1S’informer de ce qui se passe, de l’état d’une affaire, du caractère, des dispositions de ceux avec qui l’on doit traiter.
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