different ways to say bless you in french
à tes / vos souhaits Santé
title: God bless you text: "God bless you" encourages the heart to continue beating. In some cultures, sneezing is seen as a sign of good fortune or God's beneficence. As such, alternative responses to sneezing are the French phrase "à vos souhaits" (meaning "to your wishes"), the German word "Gesundheit" (meaning "health") sometimes adopted by English speakers, the Irish word "sláinte" (meaning "good health"), the Italian "salute" (also meaning "health"), the Spanish "salud" (also meaning "health"), the Hebrew "laBri'ut" (colloquial) or "liVriut" (classic) (both spelled: "לבריאות") (meaning "to health"), the Arabic "saha" (spelled "صحة", also meaning "health"). In Persian culture, sneezing sometimes is called "sabr title: French language text: because of Celtic (via Breton) and Viking influences). This system is comparable to the archaic English use of "score", as in "fourscore and seven" (87), or "threescore and ten" (70). In Old French (during the Middle Ages), all numbers from 30 to 99 could be said in either base 10 or base 20, e.g. "vint et doze" (twenty and twelve) for 32, "dous vinz et diz" (two twenties and ten) for 50, "uitante" for 80, or "nonante" for 90. Belgian French, Swiss French, Aostan French and the French used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are title: French grammar text: (from, of, about), "depuis" (since, for), "derrière" (in back of, behind), "devant" (in front of), "durant" (during, while), "en" (in, on, to), "en dehors de" (outside of), "en face de" (facing, across from), "entre" (between), "envers" (toward), "environ" (approximately), "hors de" (outside of), "jusque" (until, up to, even), "loin de" (far from), "malgré" (despite), "par" (by, through), "parmi" (among), "pendant" (during), "pour" (for), "près de" (near), "quant à" (as for, regarding), "sans" (without), "selon" (according to), "sous" (under), "suivant" (according to), "sur" (on), "vers" (toward). In French pronouns can be inflected to indicate their role in a clause (subject, direct title: French language text: simple past (passé composé and passé simple), the past imperfective (imparfait), the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait), the simple future (futur simple), the future perfect (futur antérieur), and the past perfect (passé antérieur). Some forms are less commonly used today. In today's spoken French, the passé composé is used while the passé simple is reserved for formal situations or for literary purposes. Similarly, the plus-que-parfait is used for speaking rather than the older passé antérieur seen in literary works. Within the indicative mood, the passé composé, plus-que-parfait, futur antérieur, and passé antérieur all use auxiliary verbs in their forms. The subjunctive mood only title: Acute accent text: with an acute accent as used in the original language: these include "attaché", "blasé", "canapé", "cliché", "communiqué", "café", "décor", "déjà vu", "détente", "élite", "entrée", "exposé", "mêlée", "fiancé", "fiancée", "papier-mâché", "passé", "pâté", "piqué", "plié", "repoussé", "résumé", "risqué", "sauté", "roué", "séance", "naïveté", "toupée" and "touché". Retention of the accent is common only in the French ending "é" or "ée", as in these examples, where its absence would tend to suggest a different pronunciation. Thus the French word "résumé" is commonly seen in English as "", with only one accent (but also with both or none). Acute accents are sometimes added to loanwords