Essentially, the "oe" together tells you how that vowel is to be pronounced, as in the word "œuvre". Think of it as an extra vowel that has it's own distinct spoken sound (pronunciation). I remember learning this in elementary school. Hope that helps.

Jun 27, 2021 · Like many native French speakers, I pronounce the vowels of ceux, sœur and ce differently. /ø/ is more closed than /œ/ which is more closed than /ə/.

Dec 27, 2020 · The normative usage in French is that “Œ” and “OE” are distinct spellings. The ligature is treated like a diacritic (i.e. like an accent or a cedilla): it is sometimes omitted when there are technical difficulties (French keyboards don't have an Œ key), but this is considered an approximation of the real spelling, not a correct spelling.

Mar 4, 2017 · Longer analysis. When going from spelling to pronunciation, always keep a few terms in mind: graphemes (letters/smallest indivisible combination of letters), phonemes (underlying sound), and phones (the different ways a single phoneme actually sounds in a particular context).

Apr 23, 2024 · On a hand written document, writing oe instead of the ligature œ would be seen as a mistake. But even there it would not be a very serious one because in French the ligature is only a typographic usage and we still spell it o , e or more exactly o, e …

I'll answer you (the OP) as a native practitioner from hexagonal France, not as a linguist. I hear 2 things happening at once in your 1st example: 1. the v in veux kind of turned into a vowel, allowing the elision of the diphtongue eu; and 2. the syllable is not stressed like you would expect, as a non-native who trained your ear with careful speakers.

Jun 11, 2019 · Is the E in the end of monosyllabic words like je, le, ce, ne and que pronounced [ø] , [œ] or [ə] ? It seems I hear different sounds, depending on the sentence and on the speaker.

Je n'ai pas de réponse absolue, mais il est bon de noter que la prononciation du latin a fait l'objet de maints débats (particulièrement en France, où l'omniprésence du Latin d'Église complique les choses): pour s'en rendre compte, il suffit de comparer la prononciation qui était enseignée il y a 30 ans et celle (dite "restituée", je crois) qui est couramment utilisée maintenant.

Pour une certaine valeur d'« acceptable », évidemment. La ligature æ n'est plus employée que pour quelques mots rares, Wikipédia cite entre autres cæcum, nævus, præsidium (forme utilisée

Sep 26, 2022 · « Beau » est un attribut du sujet, ici « vous ». Si ce sujet représente une personne unique que l'on vouvoie, on écrira « Vous êtes beau » et s'il s'agit de plusieurs personnes, ce sera « Vous êtes beaux » .