Phônsaùr correct pls)

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[mild tide]

What is the ‘depuis que’ and the difference between depuis

What is un bouquin and the difference between livre

‘Puis du coup’ meaning ‘ well’?

Also what is the ‘et d’un’ here

[cerulean mauve]

A noun can directly follow depuis but a clause cannot, you have to insert que in-between.

[steady herald]

« depuis que » starts a clause. A few conjunctions and prepositions add the conjunction « que » to differentiate them adding a clause versus adding another element. Ex:

« Après avoir pris le portable, le voleur s'est enfui du café. »
« Après que le voleur a pris le portable, son propriétaire l'a pourchassé. »

Because what is inserted is a clause in the second example (le voleur a pris le portable), « que » is added whereas it's unneeded since what was added was the past infinitive and an object (not a full clause).

[cerulean mauve]

Bouquin is more familiar than livre.

[steady herald]

« bouquin » is more colloquial than « livre »

[mild tide]

Is it pronounced bookeen then or bookuh

[cerulean mauve]

Du coup is just a familiar way to say "then".

[steady herald]

It's two expressions here, « puis » + « du coup ». « puis » is 'then', « du coup » is a filler like 'so, well' so what you should've paid attention to was 'and then well' not just 'well'

[cerulean mauve]

Et d'un is used when you count things as they come. It's like you say "and that's one (down, X to go)".

[steady herald]

It's nasal, /bu.kɛ̃/ like « marin »

[mild tide]

Fairs

[steady herald]

If a nasal consonant (n/m) is not followed by a vowel or followed by another consonant, it's going to be nasal

pain /pɛ̃/
–> « ain » is not followed by a vowel, nasal
impuissant /ɛ̃.pɥi.sɑ̃/
–> « im » followed by a consonant (p), nasal
__im__iter /i.mi.te/
–> « im » is followed by a vowel (i), NOT nasal

That vowel thing explains why masculine adjectives ending with a nasal consonant are nasal while feminine ones aren't. Historically, there used to be a schwa at the end of feminine adjectives that hadn't been present on masculine adjectives, so that schwa prevented nasalisation. The schwa eventually disappeared but the nasalisation was still blocked. Compare masculine « humain /y.mɛ̃/ » and feminine « humaine /y.mɛn/ ».

The schwa by the way – in case you don't know – is the sound at the first syllable of the word 'alive (/əˈlaɪv/)'

[mild tide]

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