how to pronounce dossier

/do.sje/

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dossier is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of dossier in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… décisions j'ai été bien dossier avec mon …”

meanings of dossier

noun:

  1. Dossier.
  2. Back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on.
  3. An organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder.
  4. Folder.
  5. Case, notably legal.

dossier frequency in french - B1 level of CEFR

the word dossier occurs in french on average 61.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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