{"id":43761,"date":"2022-06-05T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43761"},"modified":"2022-06-05T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T15:32:50","slug":"french-accents-notre-and-ntre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-accents-notre-and-ntre\/","title":{"rendered":"French: accents: notre and n&ocirc;tre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about French: the tutor mentions notre and n&ocirc;tre.<\/h2>\n<p>\nSometimes, the presence of an accent changes a word&#8217;s meaning in French. For instance, <em>notre<\/em> is a possessive adjective meaning <em>our<\/em>. However, <em>n&ocirc;tre<\/em> is a possessive pronoun meaning <em>ours.<\/em> N&ocirc;tre is used with an article before it, depending on whether it&#8217;s masculine, feminine, or plural:<\/p>\n<p><em>C&#8217;est notre voiture: oui, c&#8217;est la n&ocirc;tre.<\/em>This is our car: yes, it&#8217;s ours.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawlessfrench.com\/grammar\/possessive-adjectives\/\">lawlessfrench.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawlessfrench.com\/grammar\/possessive-pronouns\/\">lawlessfrench.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 notre and n&ocirc;tre. Sometimes, the presence of an accent changes a word&#8217;s meaning in French. For instance, notre is a possessive adjective meaning our. However, n&ocirc;tre is a possessive pronoun meaning ours. N&ocirc;tre is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/french-accents-notre-and-ntre\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French: accents: notre and n&ocirc;tre<\/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-43761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761","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=43761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43767,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions\/43767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}