Contractions: au /aux /du /des Soir vs. soirée Just like the similar pairs jour/journée, an/année, matin/matinée, nuit/nuitée, the short form refers to a unit of time, a calendar element while the second one refer to the matching period of time, something that span over that period. A similar relationship exist between bouche and bouchée, duc and duché etc. Soir and soirée might be interchangeable in rare cases, but often, only one of them i.. Y: An Adverbial Pronoun That Replaces Prepositional Phrases The French adverbial pronoun y is so tiny that you might think its role in a sentence is not very important, but, in fact, quite the opposite is true. This letter is extremely important in French. Y refers to a previously mentioned or implied place; it is normally translated as "there" in English. Using "Y" in French In French, the letter y usually replaces a prepositional phrase beginning with .. 이전 1 2 3 다음