09-01-2010, 02:25 PM
dissecting this sentence
TESTEZ is obviously a cognate with 'TEST', experiment.
VOTRE must be 'your'; also cognate with Portuguese 'VOCÊ', which means 'YOU'
FORCE is a cognate and it means power
POUSSEZ must be a cognate with 'PUSH' and Portuguese 'PRESSIONE'.
I find it funny that French has a lot of cognates with Portuguese (only, the way you pronounce the words in French is totally different from the Portuguese way of pronouncing it. For example, we'd read POUSSEZ roughly as 'pauls-ace')
TESTEZ is obviously a cognate with 'TEST', experiment.
VOTRE must be 'your'; also cognate with Portuguese 'VOCÊ', which means 'YOU'
FORCE is a cognate and it means power
POUSSEZ must be a cognate with 'PUSH' and Portuguese 'PRESSIONE'.
I find it funny that French has a lot of cognates with Portuguese (only, the way you pronounce the words in French is totally different from the Portuguese way of pronouncing it. For example, we'd read POUSSEZ roughly as 'pauls-ace')