{"id":13353,"date":"2012-02-17T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:10:16","slug":"the-french-spelling-is-ca-va-not-sa-va","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/the-french-spelling-is-ca-va-not-sa-va\/","title":{"rendered":"The Right French Spelling is *\u00c7a va*—Not “Sa va”!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey! Salut les amis! \u00c7a<\/span><\/span> va bien…<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell me, what is the difference in French between “<\/em>\u00e7a<\/em>“, “\u00e7\u00e0<\/em>“, <\/em>and\u00a0“sa<\/em>“?<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s post will talk about that avec les d\u00e9tails<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether or not you’ve been fully diagnosed with a desperately incurable case of “coulrophobie<\/em>” (that -please, try not to laugh- is the serious medical term that describes the “phobia of clowns”), using “\u00e7a<\/em>” in French grammar should not be as terrifying of an experience as, say, watching all alone in the grim darkness of your home’s basement a director’s cut version of Stephen King’s cinema adaptation of “\u00c7a<\/em>” (as the French faithfully translated the original “IT.”)<\/span><\/p>\n

W are considering today the homophone terms: “\u00c7a<\/strong><\/em>“, “\u00e7\u00e0<\/strong><\/em>“, and “sa.<\/strong><\/em>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Just take a good look at them. All three\u00a0se prononcent exactement de la\u00a0m\u00eame\u00a0<\/em>fa\u00e7on\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(are pronounced in exactly the same fashion.)<\/span><\/p>\n

That being the case, you may wonder, how on Earth you are to tell them apart—especially if you are to run into them in the middle of a conversation,\u00a0par exemple<\/em><\/strong>?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer,\u00a0mes chers amis\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(my dear friends), is in fact simple, and holds in one beautiful word:\u00a0Contexte<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It is all about the context, indeed.<\/span>
\n Or if you prefer, “le contexte est roi<\/strong>”\u00a0<\/em>(“The context is king.”)<\/span><\/p>\n

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* First “\u00c7\u00e0<\/strong><\/em><\/em>“, as\u00a0un adverbe\u00a0<\/em>(an adverb)<\/span>:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

As an adverb, it is easy to recognize “\u00e7\u00e0<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em>“, since it invariably occurs in the expression “\u00e7\u00e0 et\u00a0l\u00e0<\/strong><\/em>“, meaning “here and there”, and\u00a0can alternatively be expressed by\u00a0“par-ci, par-l\u00e0<\/strong>.<\/em>“<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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