@human.1011: French has no stress* 😎 #french #language #linguistics #TikTokLearningCampaign #LearnOnTikTok

Mii Adam :

French is the language with least cortisol

iHeartBellaTamanda :

Wait so poems work different than English

L⋆˚࿔ ᵎᵎ.𐙚 ̊ :

hi etymology person

lu :

and as a french native speaker that is my biggest struggle in foreign languages. like i speak three languages fluently but still after years of practice I never really know where to put the stress in English and struggle to actually stress a syllable in Spanish

DJDesmedt :

Isn’t there also a stress on the last syllable of the word in French?

daniel santisteban :

Not at all, french does have very noticeable stress in words, try to say: presque, atteindre, croissant, to name a few, those words have it in the first, second, and last syllables. I could go on…

Phoenix 🐔🔥 :

Native French speaker here 👋 We do have a teeny tiny bit of stress. If I take your sentence as an exemple, we'll say "T'as pas encore regardé la vidéo ?" with the O being a bit ↗️than the rest of the sentence. But, like you OP, we also talk with the gesture of our hands. So the person we're talking to will understand what we mean by looking our hands also 👌

ConallA2M :

The best part of English stress is distinguishing nouns from verbs with the same sound and spelling - its almost always first syllable for the noun, second for the verb: Address, aDRESS, CONtest, conTEST, etc

Epops :

holy shit im so early can i get a hi

Baptiste :

French use different vowel length tho, most French don't even realize it and it's really hard to spot the difference for non native speakers, but you immediately hear it when someone isn't using the right length for each vowel.

Country_Creator :

So they don’t stress their words, they stress their sentences and phrases…nice

TikTok User :

StreSS

Clever Jumble :

In English, stress can dictate which word a homograph is...verb or noun. RECord vs reCORD, PROduce vs proDUCE, etc.

🇪🇺🇧🇪🐓🔴♂️Nicolas🇧🇪🇨🇩 :

Now this depends on dialects and region since french is spoken in 29 countries there are a lot of dialects and depending on the region there is a stress like in Quebec, in some place of Switzerland in Liège, etc...

Sn๑ïl :

it's because we are stressed on a daily basis, we don't have enough stress anymore to put into our words

• :

See I speak three languages, never would I have figured out that one of them is completely missing stress in words

boykisser.oliver :

FINLAND MENTIONED

le_chaz :

It's correct, French doesn't have lexical accent. However, when it comes to prosodic accent it's a bit more complicated. French groups words inside of a same sentence into what is called rhythmic groups. Sentences may have 1, 2 or more of these groups and each of them has its stress at the end.

⚔️ 𝕷𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖓𝖌 🇬🇧 :

MAKSÍMOVA :

I was always taught that French stresses the last syllable of the word

Alligon 🇫🇮 :

finnish has the same thing

Uhmxd :

It's not always like that in Polish. There are some exceptions like words ending with -yka -ika have stress on the 3rd last syllable e.g. mateMAtyka, FIzyka, TECHnika etc. (maths, physics, technique). Also there are other types of exceptions which I can't recall right now

Loser Time :

Oh so that’s why it’s so difficult for me to understand stress in other languages

anthony :

spanish has also regular stress. usamos reglas para poder pronunciar graves esdrujulas y agudas, la tilde también tiene reglas que seguir. asi que seria algo cuidadoso en poner español en la otra categoria