Learn about Middle French in this 5-part series of bilingual articles about the development of French over the centuries.*
After listening to the audio, click any word for the English translation and links to related grammar lessons.
Note: The tenses in this French article and its English translation don't match! In French, we use the present tense to describe historical stories like this to evoke a sense of immediacy, whereas in English, we commonly use the past tense - learn more about historical French tenses.
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*The Development of French
- Birth of the French language
- Dialects and regional languages
- Middle French
- Classical French
- Modern French
References
- Dictionnaire Larousse
- Wikipedia: Moyen français
- Pierre Guiraud, Le moyen français, Presses universitaires de France, 1972.
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