jusque
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French jusque, from Latin inde + ūsque.
Pronunciation
editPreposition
editjusque
- until, up to
- 2006, Christophe Farquet, La défense du paradis fiscal suisse avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pages 98–9:
- Ensuite, l’ASB et la Confédération instituent une autorégulation de l’évasion fiscale afin de marquer les limites jusqu’auxquelles les établissements suisses peuvent combattre ou contourner les contrôles d’impôt étrangers sans exposer la place financière suisse à des représailles.
- Secondly, the SBA and the Swiss Confederation are instituting self-regulation of tax evasion, to mark the limits up to which Swiss institutions can combat or circumvent foreign tax controls without exposing the Swiss financial center to reprisals.
Usage notes
edit- The final -e is always elided when the next word begins with a vowel sound.[1]
- jusque is never used in isolation in more standard varieties of modern French, where it is only used as the first element in prepositional, adverbial and conjunctive locutions.[2] Most commonly, it fuses with the preposition à in the form jusqu’à. In other common uses, it pairs with another preposition (e.g. jusqu'après, jusque chez, jusque dans, jusqu’en, jusque sur, etc.) and with the adverbs alors, ici, là and où, hence jusqu’alors, jusqu’ici, jusque-là and jusqu’où.[1]
- A now dated[2] or literary construction saw jusque used without à (or another preposition) when subordinating an adverb of time or place that was itself modified by an intensifying adverb (assez, aussi, bien, fort, si, très).[2][1]
- jusqu’assez récemment ― until very recently
- jusque très avant dans la nuit ― until very late in the night
- jusque bien haut au-dessus des nuages ― up to a very high altitude above the clouds
- The alternative form jusques, once commonly used when the first letter of the following word begins with a vowel sound, has fallen far into disuse. See usage notes for jusques
Derived terms
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editOld French
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Descendants
edit- French: jusque
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (jusque)
- Godefroy, Frédéric. Dictionnaire de l'ancienne Langue Française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (dusque [1])
- “jusque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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