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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (14 children)

So “Etats” is “State”… just written backwards?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

    Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français fonctionne. Désolé pas désolé

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    ah so you have discovered in your comment how french functions.

    what's Desole?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sorry.. it says sorry not sorry 😅😅

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    is the rest of my translation correct?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not too bad overall if you don’t know any French though!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    no i learnt french in freshman year college... 15 years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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