Help:IPA/French

Template:IPA key The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents French language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see {{IPA-fr}}, {{IPAc-fr}} and .

French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.

Consonants IPA Examples English approximation Template:IPAlink bon about Template:IPAlink deux, grande today Template:IPAlink faire, vif festival Template:IPAlink garçon, longue again Template:IPAlink corps, avec sky Template:IPAlink laisser, possible, seul loo Template:IPAlink même moo Template:IPAlink nous, bonne no Template:IPAlink gagner, champagne canyon Template:IPAlink camping, bingo camping Template:IPAlink père, groupe spy Template:IPAlink regarder, nôtre Guttural R, roughly like Scottish English loch Template:IPAlink sans, ça, assez sir Template:IPAlink chance shoe Template:IPAlink tout, thé, grand-oncle sty Template:IPAlink vous, wagon, neuf heures vein Template:IPAlink zéro, raison, chose zeal Template:IPAlink jamais, visage measure Semivowels Template:IPAlink fief, payer, fille, travail yet Template:IPAlink oui, loi, moyen, web, whisky wet Template:IPAlink huit, Puy like a simultaneous wet and yet

Vowels Oral vowels IPA Examples English approximation Template:IPAlink patte, là trap Template:IPAlink pâte, glas bra Template:IPAlink clé, les, chez, aller, pied, journée hit Template:IPAlink baie, faite, mettre, renne, crème, peine best Template:IPAlink fête, maître, mètre, reine, reître, caisse, presse, Lemaistre, Lévesque fairy Template:IPAlink reposer, monsieur, faisons again (often elided, see e muet) Template:IPAlink si, île, régie, y bee Template:IPAlink sœur, jeune roughly like bird Template:IPAlink ceux, jeûner, queue roughly like bird Template:IPAlink saut, haut, bureau story Template:IPAlink sort, minimum off Template:IPAlink coup, roue too Template:IPAlink tu, sûr, rue roughly like few Nasal vowels Template:IPAlink sans, champ, vent, temps, Jean, taon roughly like on; nasalized Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink; rendez-vous Template:IPAlink vin, impair, pain, daim, plein, Reims, synthèse, sympa, bien roughly like man; nasalized Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink; coq au vin Template:IPAlink un, parfum roughly like burn; nasalized Template:IPAblink Template:IPAlink son, nom roughly like long; nasalized Template:IPAblink or Template:IPAblink Suprasegmentals IPA Example Description Template:IPAlink pays [pe.i] syllable boundary ‿ les agneaux [lez‿aɲo] liaison