If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
So “Etats” is “State”… just written backwards?
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If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.
It also happened with circumflex.
Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.
Here’s a whole video about exactly this.
“États” is “States” ☝️🤓
Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français fonctionne. Désolé pas désolé
what’s Desole?
It’s when you remove the bottom of a shoe.
Sorry… it says sorry not sorry 😅😅
is the rest of my translation correct?
Not too bad overall if you don’t know any French though!
no i learnt french in freshman year college… 15 years ago
It quickly gets dissolved into the abyss of the mind, I get that! I lived in Japan for 4 years and can only remember a few useless bits.
No, but close. Comment means how.
So you have discovered how french functions.
damn should have guessed
What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious statement!