10/01/09 15:21:31
For the first word, in fact it is pronounced.
If you didn't put the "s" after "le" you must pronounced a sound between リュ and ロ .
Maybe リュ is closer. In that example every "s" is a mark for plural.
These letters are useful (and pronounced) when a word ended by a consonant is followed by a word begining by a vowel
(it may exist exceptions, as always in french).
But I can't really say why some words have unpronounced final letter.
For some it's because they were written differently in former french.
Some final letters are to indicate gender or plural (maybe the most of the final letters unpronounced belong to that kind)
Here "terminees" has two final letters unpronounced.
This e is for feminine gender and the s is for plural (because adjectives in french take the gender and the number of the noun that they qualified:
"vacances" is a feminine word, and this word is always at plural form)
Do you know how to pronounced each french letter? Cause I don't really know how to translate you the sound for "je" or "le" for example.
(ジュ or リュ are more closer to me to "ju" (jou) or "ru")
Oh!.. I just find in my japanese lesson an other transcription for "je" : ジェ
Does it make the idea of the sound clearer? If you want I will search french alphabet sounds on the internet,
so that you can hear what the french "e" is.
フランス語の発音に関してなのですが、訳を教えて下さい。宜しくお願いします。