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How do you pronounce "le taxi" in French?
luh tak-SEE — the "x" is a "ks" cluster here, and the final "i" is a pure "ee".
le ta-XI, weight on the second syllable. English stresses the first — TAX-i — so the beat has to move back, which is what makes the French version sound different despite identical spelling.
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On prend un taxi ?
Shall we take a taxi?
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"On prend un taxi ?" uses "prendre" for taking transport, as with "prendre le train". "Un taxi" links smoothly across the nasal. The rising intonation on TAXI turns the statement into a suggestion, which is how French makes casual proposals — no inversion needed.
Where English speakers slip
The word is spelled identically to English, which makes the stress the main giveaway: French puts it at the end. The final vowel also gets laxed toward "ih" — keep it a clean "ee". And note that "x" behaves in three different ways across French words, sounding as "ks" here, as "z" in liaison, and as nothing at all in "deux".