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Vous en savez déjà plus que vous ne le pensez. Sur les 2 264 mots courants de Cognata, 1 528 ont un équivalent apparenté en portugais : le même mot, remodelé par des siècles de parole. Partez de ceux-là, apprenez les changements réguliers qui relient les deux langues et gardez les faux amis à l’œil.
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- ont une même source
- 67 %
- hérités des deux côtés
- 23 %
- à apprendre tels quels
- 33 %
2 264 mots comparés
Les mots que vous connaissez déjà
Des mots courants dont les formes en portugais et en français viennent de la même source.
Les lois phonétiques entre les deux
Des changements réguliers qui transforment un mot en portugais en son équivalent en français : apprenez-en un, il sert pour des centaines de mots.
- Stressed short E breaks into iee [ɛ] (no diphthong)ie, i (open syllable); e (closed)PETRAMpedrapierre
- Stressed short O breaks into ue / uo / euo [ɔ] (no diphthong)eu, œu (open syllable); o (closed)NOVUMnovoneuf
- French stressed free A becomes ea (kept)e, è, é; ie after a palatal (chien)MAREmarmer
- French fronts long U to [y]u [u] (kept)u [y]LŪNAMlualune
- AU becomes oou (said [o] in Brazil)o (spelled o or au)AURUMouroor
- French vowel + nasal becomes a nasal vowelnasal vowel or diphthong too (pão, bom, fim)nasal vowel (ɑ̃ ɔ̃ ɛ̃); n/m silentPĀNEMpãopain
- Spanish initial F- becomes h- (silent)f- keptf- keptFĪLIUM (fr. from nom. FĪLIUS)filhofils
- Voiceless stops between vowels softenb (v) d gv; t, c lostVĪTAMvidavie
- C before E and Is (c, ç); z [z] between vowelss (c, ç)CAELUMcéuciel
- French CA becomes chaca keptcha, che, chie [ʃ]CABALLUMcavalocheval
- Initial I- (J-) and G before E, Ij, g [ʒ]j, g [ʒ]IOCUMjogojeu
- B and V merge in Spanishv kept; B between vowels → vv kept; B between vowels → vVĪNUMvinhovin
- Germanic W- becomes gu- / g-gu- ([gw] before a, o; [g] before e, i)g(u)- [g]Germanic *WERRAguerraguerre
- L before a consonant becomes ual → ou, oi in some words (outro, foice); written l elsewhere, said [w] in Brazill → u, fused with the vowel: au [o], ou [u], eauALTERUMoutroautre
- CTit (i + t)it (i + t)NOCTEMnoitenuit
- L + yodlh [ʎ]il, ill [j]FOLIAMfolhafeuille
- C'L inside a wordlh [ʎ]il, ill [j]OCULUMolhoœil
- CL-, PL-, FL- at the start of a wordch- [ʃ]cl- pl- fl- (kept)CLĀVEMchaveclé
- NN, GN and N + yodnh [ɲ]; NN → ngn [ɲ]; NN → n (nasal vowel at the end)ANNUManoan
- S + consonant at the start of a wordes-é- (from es-, s lost)STELLAMestrelaétoile
- French loses S before a consonant (^)s kepts lost; often marked ^ (ê â ô î û)FESTAMfestafête
- Italian assimilates clusterssimplified: pt → t, mn → n; x → ss or ix [jʃ]simplified or lost: pt → t; x → sSEPTEMsetesept
- Final vowels-o, -a, -e kept (said [u], [ɐ], [i]); -e dropped after a single r, l, s, z, ndropped; -A → mute -eLUPUMloboloup
- Plurals: -s or -i-s, -es (from the accusative)-s, -x (written, mostly silent; from the accusative)LUPŌS (acc.) / LUPĪ (nom.)lobosloups
- -TĀTEM: -dad, -té, -tà-dade (-tade after a consonant)-téCĪVITĀTEMcidadecité
- -TIŌNEM: learned -ción, inherited -zón-ção (learned and inherited alike: nação, razão)-tion (learned); inherited -sonRATIŌNEMrazãoraison
- -ĀRIUM: -ero, -ier, -aio-eiro, -eira-ier, -ièreCABALLĀRIUMcavaleirochevalier
- Adverbs in -mente / -ment-mente-mentCLĀRĀ MENTEclaramenteclairement
- Single L between vowels: lost in Portuguese, r in Romanianlost (céu, fio, cor)l keptFĪLUMfiofil
- Portuguese loses single N between vowelslost, nasalizing the vowel (lã, mão); later often oral (lua, boa) or nh (vinho)n kept between vowels; at the end, a nasal vowelLĀNAMlãlaine
- Romanian turns velars into labialsit, x [ʃ], nh; qu, guit, iss, gn; qu (velar kept, palatalized or lost)OCTŌoitohuit
- Romanian T, D, S before i become ț, z, șkept; t, d said [tʃ], [dʒ] before i in Brazil (dia)t, d, s keptDĪCEREdizerdire
- Catalan drops -n at the end of a wordnasal vowel or diphthong (pão, vinho, bom)n silent, vowel nasal (pain, vin)PĀNEMpãopain
Les faux amis à surveiller
Pas encore de piège classique entre ces deux langues dans Cognata, mais chaque page de mot signale ceux qu’elle connaît.
Les mots à apprendre tels quels
Des mots courants pour lesquels le français a suivi son propre chemin.