Hi Nicolas, at 23:22 , for the words sérieuse and généreuse, why do we use [ø] sound and not [oe] as in both words 'eu' has a consonant sound 's' after it.''
Bonjour ! Sorry for the late reply. After recording the video I realized that I forgot to talk about it, I'm really glad you asked! That's a very good, legit and relevant question. You're right, it doens't seem coherent with what I explained before, but there are reasons for this pronunciation. First reason is that the neutral (meaning masculin singulier) forms of these words are "sérieux" and "généreux", so it makes sense to keep the [ø] sound even when putting the words at the female form, to remain coherent with the original pronunciation. Second reason that's very interesting is that if you look at the group of words "sérieuse et généreuse" and you divide the syllabes, it will sound like this : "sé-rieu-zé-gé-né-reuse" so actually, because we link the end of "sérieuse" with "et" in the way we pronunce the sentence, it becomes an open sound and it's logical to use [ø]. I hope I was able to clarify the situation, let me know if you have any more question!
![French Pronunciation Course #6 - [o] et [ɔ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/V50F3wFq5RE/mqdefault.jpg)
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Bro, what a good and useful job, greetings from Bs As
Merci Cristian !
Hi Nicolas, at 23:22 , for the words sérieuse and généreuse, why do we use [ø] sound and not [oe] as in both words 'eu' has a consonant sound 's' after it.''
Bonjour ! Sorry for the late reply. After recording the video I realized that I forgot to talk about it, I'm really glad you asked! That's a very good, legit and relevant question. You're right, it doens't seem coherent with what I explained before, but there are reasons for this pronunciation.
First reason is that the neutral (meaning masculin singulier) forms of these words are "sérieux" and "généreux", so it makes sense to keep the [ø] sound even when putting the words at the female form, to remain coherent with the original pronunciation.
Second reason that's very interesting is that if you look at the group of words "sérieuse et généreuse" and you divide the syllabes, it will sound like this : "sé-rieu-zé-gé-né-reuse" so actually, because we link the end of "sérieuse" with "et" in the way we pronunce the sentence, it becomes an open sound and it's logical to use [ø].
I hope I was able to clarify the situation, let me know if you have any more question!
@@NLF-Academygot it! Thanks a lot.