{"id":43650,"date":"2022-05-14T18:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43650"},"modified":"2022-05-14T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:01:19","slug":"french-re-verb-derivatives-nd-to-nte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-re-verb-derivatives-nd-to-nte\/","title":{"rendered":"French: -re verb derivatives: -nd to -nte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of <em>d&eacute;tente<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI heard about &#8220;d&eacute;tente&#8221; when I was a kid: it was an easing of relations between the US and the Soviets, and extended to 1979. Its main players were Nixon and Brezhnev. (I hope, in a later post, to mention that perhaps it was Khrushchev, on the Soviet side, who may actually have enabled d&eacute;tente.)<\/p>\n<p>\nAs so often happens, a French word &#8211; <em>d&eacute;tente<\/em> &#8211; was used to signify the relaxation between the two countries. <em>D&eacute;tente<\/em> means <em>relaxation<\/em>. The regular -re French verb <em>d&eacute;tendre<\/em> means <em>to relax<\/em>: <em>elle d&eacute;tend<\/em> means <em>she relaxes<\/em>, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the only case where the third-person present form of an -re verb transforms its ending from -nd to -nte to form a related noun. I&#8217;ll be mentioning others.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Russia\/The-Khrushchev-era-1953-64\">britannica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/cold-war\/detente\">history.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/detente\">britannica.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions the idea of d&eacute;tente. I heard about &#8220;d&eacute;tente&#8221; when I was a kid: it was an easing of relations between the US and the Soviets, and extended to 1979. Its main players were Nixon &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-re-verb-derivatives-nd-to-nte\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French: -re verb derivatives: -nd to -nte<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43650"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43662,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43650\/revisions\/43662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}