i've made an error...
https://witches.town/media/xVJMtnwp1U2a0Mmsuw4
@candle do you eat cars?
@sempervirenx "i'm sure i've gotten that word wrong enough times to know it means car but how can it mean car..."
@candle voiture is right tho
@sempervirenx yeeeah then i realised i had the other word wrong mdr
@candle @sempervirenx You keep mixing up jeûne (in "déjeuner", lunch) with jeune (as in "jeunesse", youth).
They're completely different words, but I'm not sure I can make it easier to remember...
The eating one is actually from the root word "jeun" (pronounced like "j'un"), so that "jeûne" form sounds closer to "je" - with a n behind.
Whereas young/jeune (same root for this word, see the German version 'yung') is - because it's the same origin as yours - a much more open "e", closer to the English determinant "a".
As for telling them apart in writing... Perhaps remember there is no word related to young that starts with a "breaking" prefix "dé-"? ^^°
@sempervirenx @candle Fuck, I meant "jung" for the German, but it's precisely pronounced "yung" which is why it was relevant to my point: it's the bridge between our two words. >.<"