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- Naïve, naïf, naïvety, naïveté - English Language Usage Stack . . .
naif naɪˈif nɑˈif (also naïf) adjective naive or ingenuous noun a naive or ingenuous person It is true that the first word derive from the French word that is the feminine word of naïf, but from the dictionary I get they have different meanings naive is used only as adjective naif has the same meaning of naive, but it means also
- A word for a worldly wise person who pretends to be naïve?
What is a word for someone who is experienced and wise, but who deliberately acts naïve? I don’t intend it for sarcastic use; I’m trying to describe someone succeeding in making people think tha
- Collective term for a group of naive people [duplicate]
When you describe someone using the adjective form of naif — which can be used interchangeably with naive — you are usually implying that the person is a little childlike or immature adjective: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience When I first saw the question, I immediately thought naif
- diacritics - Two dots on the i instead of one? - English Language . . .
The origin of "naive" is the French word " naïve " (Notice that the French " naïve " is italicized) As a French word, it is spelled naïve or naïf (French adjectives have grammatical gender; naïf is used with masculine nouns while naive is used with feminine nouns ) The two dots above the "i" are called diaeresis As an unitalicized English word, "naive" is now the more usual spelling
- Naïve yet naivety? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Hitting it straight off here, naïve is a loan-word (a word that was derived from another language yet has avoided entire english assimilation) yet naivety is an english modification to the word Changing the word to english rules force the word into a completely english state, removing the dieresis (¨) from over the i In addition, personal experience leaves me hearing the word naivety as
- orthography - Is it spelt naïve or naive? - English Language . . .
Possible Duplicate: “Whereäs” as an alternative spelling of “whereas” I've always wondered which is the correct spelling: quot;naïve quot; or quot;naive quot;? Are both correct, and it is just
- Reason for different pronunciations of lieutenant
It's simply an attempt for English speakers to pronunce French phonemes, I don't believe there's an additional reason The word appeared in English as "lieutenant", and an alternative "leftenant" was made to stick to the pronunciation The pronunciation being very difficult for English speaker The "lefttenant" doesn't exist in French, at least, I didn't find it, I will search further
- A word to describe a person who makes a lot of mistakes but is unaware . . .
What do you call a person who always or gradually makes mistakes, but is unaware that they're making those mistakes? For example, Nicolo and I are partners in a group project The instructor as
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