
un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras – a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. un de ces quatre (matins) – one of these days. tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche – to think long and hard (before speaking). il ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard – he’s nothing special. faire d’une pierre deux coups – to kill two birds with one stone. en deux temps, trois mouvements – in double time, very quickly. couper les cheveux en quatre – to split hairs, quibble. à la une – on the front page of the newspaper, headline news. Lessons that rely on your understanding of French numbers: Get used to French numbers with these listen-and-repeat exercises, as well as random number files to test your comprehension:
It’s silent when followed by a consonant. In front of a vowel, the pronunciation changes to due to the required required liaison. The x is pronounced when they stand alone or are at the end of a sentence. When either of these numbers is followed by a consonant, that final sound is dropped. However, this is only true when the numbers stand alone (as in the sound files), precede a vowel or h muet, or are at the end of a sentence. You’ll notice that the consonants at the end of cinq and huit are pronounced.
The numbers 0 to 19 are pretty easy in French you just need to memorize them like any other vocabulary: 0
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Learn the French numbers and how to count from 0 to 59.