新概念法语词汇辅导：同形异音词学习1

　　法语中的accent就像中文中的音调一样不能乱标！一个符号的错误，可能会引起大歧义。下面我们来看看这些法语中的同形异音词吧～

　　French Accent Homographs

　　Think accents don't matter when writing in French? Think again!

　　You may not realize it, but French accents have a purpose. While some accents just signify that an S used to follow that vowel in Old French (e.g., étudiant used to be spelled estudiant), most French accents indicate the correct pronunciation of the letter they modify. In addition, there are dozens of French word pairs which are spelled (though not always pronounced) the same other than accents. To avoid confusion, you should always distinguish between these words by using the correct accents.*

　　a - third person singular of avoir (to have)

　　à - (preposition) to, at, in

　　acre - acre

　　acre - (adjective) acrid, pungent

　　age - age

　　agé - (adjective) old

　　aie - first person singular subjunctive and second person singular imperative of avoir

　　a?e - (interjection) ouch

　　arriéré - (adjective) overdue, backward; (noun) backlog, arrears

　　arrière - back, stern, rear, aft

　　bronze - bronze object

　　bronzé - past participle of bronzer (to tan, bronze)

　　?a - (indefinite demonstrative pronoun) that, it

　　?à et là - here and there

　　colle - glue

　　collé - past participle of coller (to glue)

　　congres - eels

　　congrès - conference, congress

　　cote - quotation, quoted value, rating

　　coté - highly thought of / rated (past participle of c?ter)

　　c?te - rib, slope, coastline

　　c?té - side

　　cure - cure, treatment

　　curé - priest; past participle of curer (to clean out)

　　crêpe - crepe (thin pancake), crepe paper

　　crêpé - past participle of crêper (to backcomb, crimp)

　　de - (preposition) of, from

　　dé - thimble, die

　　des - (indefinite article, partitive article) some; contraction of de + les

　　dès - (preposition) from

　　différent - different

　　diffèrent - third person plural conjugation of différer (to differ)

　　du - contraction of de + le

　　d? - past participle of devoir (to have to)