les signes de ponctuation
On this page you’ll find a complete list of French punctuation mark names. This list should come in very handy if you’re taking a French class or discussing French writing.
| LA PONCTUATION | |
| accent | un accent |
| ampersand | une esperluette |
| apostrophe | une apostrophe |
| asterisk | un astérisque |
| bullet point | une puce |
| bracket | un crochet |
| capital letter | une lettre majuscule |
| colon | deux points (m.p.) |
| comma | une virgule |
| ellipsis | trois petits points, points de suspension (m.p.) |
| exclamation point | une point d’exclamation |
| hyphen, dash | un tirer, un trait d’union |
| italics | en italique |
| parenthesis | une parenthèse |
| in parenthesis | entre parenthèses |
| period | un point |
| pound sign | un dièse |
| question mark | un point d’interrogation |
| semicolon | un point virgule |
| slash, oblique | un slash, une barre oblique |
| small letter | une lettre minuscule |
| square bracket | un crochet |
| underlining | le soulignement |
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