What are the names of countries in French?

What are the names of countries in French?

Languages and Nationalities (Les Langues et Les Nationalités)

Is the word country in French masculine or feminine?

But now, you are wondering, how can you know which countries are feminine and which are masculine? As a general rule, countries that end in -e are feminine: la France, l’Angleterre, la Chine, l’Argentine, l’Algérie, la Colombie, la Mauritanie, l’Inde.

What does nation mean in French?

nation f. the nation (= the people of this country) la nation.

Which country spoke French?

Countries

What is the language of France?

French

How many countries are English in the world?

67 different countries

Which country English is best?

The Netherlands has emerged as the nation with the highest English language proficiency, according to the EF English Proficiency Index, with a score of 72. It is ahead of five other northern European nations at the top of the chart. In fact, the only non-European nation in the top ten is Singapore at number six.

Which countries mother tongue is English?

Sovereign states

Which country has no mother tongue?

But after a bit of cross-referencing, we discovered that there are only three countries without an official language. According to Indy100, those nations are Australia, Mexico, and the United States. For Mexico, Spanish is the de facto national language.

Which country first spoke English?

England

Who is mother of English language?

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.

What was the first English word?

There was no first word. At various times in the 5th century, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and other northern Europeans show up in what is now England. They’re speaking various North Sea Germanic dialects that might or might not have been mutually understandable.

Which is the oldest word?

According to a 2009 study by researchers at Reading University, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years.

What was the first human word?

One of a Neanderthal baby’s first words was probably “papa”, concludes one of the most comprehensive attempts to date to make out what the first human language was like.

What was the first swear word?

Fart, as it turns out, is one of the oldest rude words we have in the language: Its first record pops up in roughly 1250, meaning that if you were to travel 800 years back in time just to let one rip, everyone would at least be able to agree upon what that should be called.

Is ruddy a swear word?

Ruddy is a euphemism for bloody, meaning very. Up to about 1940 bloody was considered Very Rude – or Bad Language, as they called swearing then. There was an even coyer euphemism – they called it the “Shavian adjective”. The first time it got away with being used on stage was in a play by George Bernard Shaw.