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unusual facts about French grammar



Infinitive

In many other languages the infinitive is a single word, often with a characteristic inflective ending, such as manger ("(to) eat") in French, portare ("(to) carry") in Latin, lieben ("(to) love") in German, etc.


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Belgian French

He is known around the French community for his 1600 pages reference book on French grammar, le bon usage, which received an award from the Académie française.