prendre son courage à deux mains

/\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\/ verb

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Language

French

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prendre son courage à deux mains is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire un effort sur soi-même pour accomplir un acte difficile devant lequel on a longtemps hésité. Réunir ses forces pour affronter une situation difficile que l'on a longtemps redoutée. Pronounced \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\.

Key facts for prendre son courage à deux mains
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre son courage à deux mains
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\
Letters32
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre son courage à deux mains is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre son courage à deux mains is 32 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\. 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: "Faire un effort sur soi-même pour accomplir un acte difficile devant lequel on a longtemps hésité. Réunir ses forces pour affronter une situation difficile que l'on a longtemps redoutée.".

No misspelling variants are generated for prendre son courage à deux mains 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 son courage à deux mains, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-O-N- -C-O-U-R-A-G-E- -À- -D-E-U-X- -M-A-I-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire un effort sur soi-même pour accomplir un acte difficile devant lequel on a longtemps hésité. Réunir ses forces pour affronter une situation difficile que l'on a longtemps redoutée.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre son courage à deux mains"?
"prendre son courage à deux mains" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -S-O-N- -C-O-U-R-A-G-E- -À- -D-E-U-X- -M-A-I-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\.
What does "prendre son courage à deux mains" mean?
As a verb, "prendre son courage à deux mains" means: Faire un effort sur soi-même pour accomplir un acte difficile devant lequel on a longtemps hésité. Réunir ses forces pour affronter une situation difficile que l'on a longtemps redoutée.
How do you pronounce "prendre son courage à deux mains"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre son courage à deux mains" is \pʁɑ̃.dʁə sɔ̃ ku.ʁa.ʒ‿a dø mɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.