If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
So “Etats” is “State”… just written backwards?
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If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.
It also happened with circumflex.
Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.
Here’s a whole video about exactly this.
Ah alors tu as découvert comment est-ce que le français fonctionne. Désolé pas désolé
what’s Desole?
It’s when you remove the bottom of a shoe.
Sorry… it says sorry not sorry 😅😅
is the rest of my translation correct?
No, but close. Comment means how.
So you have discovered how french functions.
damn should have guessed
Not too bad overall if you don’t know any French though!
no i learnt french in freshman year college… 15 years ago
It quickly gets dissolved into the abyss of the mind, I get that! I lived in Japan for 4 years and can only remember a few useless bits.
What a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious statement!
“États” is “States” ☝️🤓