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Meaning of "Canadian French" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CANADIAN FRENCH

Canadian French play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANADIAN FRENCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Canadian French can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CANADIAN FRENCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Canadian French

Canadian French is an umbrella term referring to the varieties of French spoken in Canada. In 2005, the total number of speakers of French in Canada was 11,552,800. French is the mother tongue of more than seven million Canadians, a figure constituting roughly 22% of the national population. At the federal level it has co-official status alongside English. At the provincial level of government, French is the sole official language of Quebec and is one of two official languages of New Brunswick. Government services are offered in French at the provincial level in Manitoba, in certain areas of Ontario, and to a variable extent elsewhere. French is co-official in the three territories. New England French, a variety spoken in parts of New England in the United States, is essentially a variety of Canadian French.

Definition of Canadian French in the English dictionary

The definition of Canadian French in the dictionary is the French language as spoken in Canada, esp in Quebec. Other definition of Canadian French is denoting this language or a French-speaking Canadian.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANADIAN FRENCH

Canada balsam
Canada Day
Canada goose
Canada jay
Canada lily
Canada thistle
Canadarm
Canadian
Canadian Alliance
Canadian bacon
Canadian elk
Canadian English
Canadian fleabane
Canadian football
Canadian Forces
Canadian pondweed
Canadian River
Canadian Shield
Canadian whisky
Canadianism

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANADIAN FRENCH

Allen wrench
Anglo-French
bench
drench
entrench
French
hex key wrench
lug wrench
Middle French
monkey wrench
Norman French
Old French
Old North French
retrench
socket wrench
spanner wrench
Swiss-French
the French
torque wrench
trench
wrench

Synonyms and antonyms of Canadian French in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Canadian French» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANADIAN FRENCH

Find out the translation of Canadian French to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Canadian French from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Canadian French» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

加拿大法语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Francés canadiense
570 millions of speakers

English

Canadian French
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कनाडा के फ्रेंच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الفرنسية الكندية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

канадский французский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

French Canadian
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কানাডিয়ান ফরাসি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

canadienne-française
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perancis Perancis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kanadisches Französisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カナダフランス語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

캐나다 프랑스어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Canadian French
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiếng Pháp của Canada
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கனேடிய பிரஞ்சு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅनेडियन फ्रेंच
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kanada Fransızcası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

francese canadese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kanadyjski francuski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Канадський французький
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Franceză canadiană
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Γαλλικά Καναδά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kanadese Frans
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kanadensisk franska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kanadisk fransk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Canadian French

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANADIAN FRENCH»

The term «Canadian French» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.922 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Canadian French
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Canadian French».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANADIAN FRENCH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Canadian French» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Canadian French» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Canadian French

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANADIAN FRENCH»

Discover the use of Canadian French in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Canadian French and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Canadian French: The Language and Literature of the Past ...
With A Retrospect Of The Causes That Have Produced Them.
James Geddes, Jr., 2010
2
History of Literature in Canada: English-Canadian and ...
The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.
Reingard M. Nischik, 2008
3
The French-Canadian Heritage in New England
Assibilation of voiced and unvoiced dentals [t, d] before [i], [y], [j], and [q] Whenever [t] or [d] is followed by [u] or a mid or open vowel in Canadian French, it is pronounced as in standard French. Otherwise, these consonants become [f ] and [dz] ...
Gerard J. Brault, 1986
4
The Status of French Among Youth in a Bilingual ...
That which is particularly revealing in these studies is their findings regarding speaker attitudes toward Canadian French. The fact that subjects in Madawaska generally rated lower-class Madawaska French low is not surprising; local French ...
Joseph Edward Price, 2007
5
Library of Congress Subject Headings
DS ( Collections )] UF Canadian essays (French) BT French-Canadian literature French-Canadian experimental fiction USE Experimental fiction, French- Canadian French-Canadian fantasy fiction USE Fantasy fiction, French- Canadian ...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
F8; BT Bulldogs French-Canadian aged, Writings of the USE Aged, Writings of the, FrenchCanadian French-Canadian alien labor USE Alien labor, French- Canadian French-Canadian art USE Art, French-Canadian French-Canadian arts USE ...
7
French Canadian sources: a guide for genealogists
A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors.
Patricia Kenney Geyh, Joyce Soltis Banachowski, Linda Boyea, 2002
8
Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A ...
This volume is the first examination and exploration of variation in French that studies in a unified way the levels of phonology, grammar and lexis using quantitative methods.
Nigel Armstrong, 2001
9
The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students
4.2 Mildly marked informal variants in the French immersion teachers' classroom speech and in L1 Canadian French . . . . . . 93 4.3 Percentage of formal variants in the French immersion teachers' classroom speech and in L1 Canadian French ...
Katherine Rehner, Terry Nadasdi, Raymond Mougeon, Raymond Mougeon, Terry Nadasdi, 2010
10
French All-in-One For Dummies
French-English mash-ups: Canadian French includes many expressions that combine French and English words, such as C'est du fun (sey dew fuhn) (It's fun). This expression is C'est amusant (sey tah-mew-zahN) in other French-speaking ...
Consumer Dummies, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANADIAN FRENCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Canadian French is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Native Cooking: Is It Chowder, or Chowdah?
My family, Abenaki and Canadian French, made it this way for years, and we thought that this was the only way to have it—with a pure and ... «Indian Country Today Media Network, Jun 15»
2
Twerk, Meh, and Inukshuk Some of the New Words Added to Oxford …
According to OED, the word depanneur is the Canadian French term for convenience store, while inukshuk is a structure of rough stones ... «KelownaNow, Jun 15»
3
Canadian words dépanneur, inukshuk among 500 new Oxford …
From Canadian French comes dépanneur, which Quebecers will immediately know means convenience store. (The OED spelling leaves off the ... «CBC.ca, Jun 15»
4
Student earns French award
Luo was among 10,000 students from across B.C. who competed in this year's pan-Canadian French public speaking competition, Concours ... «Burnaby NewsLeader, Jun 15»
5
Inuktut texting now available for iPhone, but many languages still …
If you generally send your texts in English, Canadian French, Chinese, Spanish, German or even Urdu, to name a few, your chosen keyboard is ... «Yahoo News Canada, Jun 15»
6
Francois vs. Quebecois
After the French Revolution, Parisian French became standardized in France while Canadian French continued to evolve on its own. Centuries of political battles ... «Language Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Annecy: Paramount Animation, Spain's Ilion Ally on 3D Tentpole …
These include U.S., Canadian French, English, German and Asian artists, Employment will peak at about 400. Pic is scheduled for delivery by ... «Variety, Jun 15»
8
Flyte Systems Delivers Airline Information to Toronto's Union …
Flyte Systems will also deliver English and Canadian French flight information content for displays mounted onboard airport-bound trains, and ... «Virtual-Strategy Magazine, Jun 15»
9
NeoSpeech Launches New Voice Cloud Service for Text-to-Speech …
... UK English, Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. The range of applications for NeoSpeech's Voice Cloud ... «PR Web, Jun 15»
10
DIOTEK Releases New Text-to-Speech Voices
... new voices, based on intelligent syntactic analysis, are Claire (U.K. English), Estelle (Canadian French), and Monica (Brazilian Portuguese). «MarketWatch, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Canadian French [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/canadian-french>. May 2024 ».
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