French pronunciation
The letter combinations euil (at the end of a word) and euill (almost anywhere*) have no English equivalent: they are pronounced like the oo in "foot" plus a "y" sound. The IPA spelling is [œj], and the Lawless phonetic spelling is [ooy].
* euill followed by é (as in the past participle feuillé) or by er (in the infinitive feuiller) is pronounced [œj] but the y sound is transferred to the next syllable: [fœ je].
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Par exemple… |
le seuil | doorstep | |
le deuil | mourning | |
le treuil | winch | |
le fauteuil | armchair | |
un écureuil | squirrel | |
la feuille | leaf | |
le portefeuille | wallet |
The sound [œj] has two other spellings:
Related lessons
- Letters: E | U | I | L
- French vowels
J’adore cette leçon! Avec mon ancienne classe de français nous avons joué des jeux avec les mots difficile à prononcer comme ceux avec le son -euil(le).
J’adore le site, Laura!