peufent au lieu de peuvent ?

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peufent au lieu de peuvent ?

[carmine peak]

I'm not aware of specific accents that do that but final consonants are pretty often devoiced universally

[barren basin]

If the next word starts with a voiceless consonant, I can see the /v/ assimilating into [f] in fast speech
example: "ils peuvent carrément...."

but by itself, no

[scenic dove]

@carmine peak @barren basin I heard it from this: https://youtu.be/9rSS3DKctX8?t=223

[carmine peak]

Ah

Then

[barren basin]

It's an example of what I mentioned

[carmine peak]

It's assimilation

[scenic dove]

ah ok

[carmine peak]

Peu__v-t__rès

The T is voiceless and devoices the preceding consonant

[scenic dove]

merci à vous

I see

[carmine peak]

Happens all the time, it's the kind of thing you get used to with time though

[scenic dove]

I hadn't heard that sound in French yet, but now hopefully I'll recognize the sound when I hear it again

[carmine peak]

You'd never heard an F-sound in French?

[scenic dove]

Well.. at least in 3rd person plural conjugations lol