He was born in Paris in 1968, but the following year his mother became seriously ill, and his father, a car mechanic, sent Vjeran to live with his grandmother, in the Ottoman town of Mostar, in Bosnia. Tomic avoided his family’s apartment, which was a few blocks south of the cemetery, because he had a tense relationship with his parents, both of whom were Bosnian immigrants.
In one of twenty letters, written in careful cursive French, that he sent me during the past year and a half, he told me, “Observing them gave me the desire to touch them-to climb up to their peaks.” Tomic and his friends turned the cemetery into a parkour playground, leaping from the roof of one mausoleum to the next, daring one another to take ever-bolder risks. Tomic recalled that in the nineteen-eighties, when he was an adolescent, the cemetery attracted hippie tourists, who flocked to the grave of Jim Morrison, and also drug dealers and gang members. Frédéric Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde are among those buried there. Père Lachaise, the city’s largest cemetery, is a Gothic maze of tombstones, in the Twentieth Arrondissement, that covers more than a hundred acres. You see? So if it’s a noun, you say “ent”.Long before the burglar Vjeran Tomic became the talk of Paris, he honed his skills in a graveyard. Now it doesn’t mean you don’t ever get to pronounce the ENT at the end of French words! Non non non!Ģ- ENT at the end of a noun IS pronounced The plural ending for French verbs, almost always, is ENT. So if you see ENT at the end of a French verb you simply do not pronounce it and that is it! But sometimes you have nice little rules that you can trust!ġ- ENT at the end of a verb is NOT pronounced
French pronunciation doesn’t always make sense.
Those 3 irritating unreliable letters at the end of words… you know the ones I mean…ĭo I pronounce them or not? Do I make the sound “ent” or is it silent? Today, I want to share with you a mistake that comes back over and over again.
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