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The charts ablo shaw the way in which the Internaitional Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents French pronunciations in Wikipaedia airticles.

Vouels^[4]
Oral vouels
IPA	Examples
a	patte, là
ɑ	pâte, glas^[5]
e	clé, les, chez, aller, pied, journée
ɛ	baie, faite, mettre, renne, crème, peine
ɛː	fête, maître, mètre, reine, reître, caisse, presse, Lemaistre, Lévesque^[5]
ə	le, reposer, monsieur, faisons
i	si, île, régie, y
œ	sœur, jeune
ø	ceux, jeûner, queue
o	sot, haut, bureau
ɔ	sort, minimum
u	coup, roue
y	tu, sûr, rue
Nasal vouels
ɑ̃	sans, champ, vent, temps, Jean, taon
ɛ̃	vin, impair, pain, daim, plein, Reims, synthèse, sympa, bien
œ̃	un, parfum^[5]
ɔ̃	son, nom

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↑ The French rhotic /ʁ/ is uisually uvular, but it varies bi region. For example, in Québec baith [r] an [ʀ] are uised, dependin on baith region an age.
↑ In European French, /ŋ/ is eften pronoonced [ŋɡ], but in Québec, it is merged wi /ɲ/.
↑ Eften replaced bi [ʁ].
↑ Nasal vouels are lenthened afore ony consonant, but oral vouels are lenthened afore [v, ʁ, z, ʒ].
↑ ^a ^b ^c In Parisian French, /œ̃/ is uisually merged wi /ɛ̃/, /ɑ/ wi /a/ an /ɛː/ wi /ɛ/. The pairs mey be distinguished in Belgian, Swiss an Canadian French an in some regions o Fraunce or amang aulder speakers.
↑ The stress faws on the last full syllable o a phrase except in emphatic speech.
↑ The syllable break ⟨.⟩ is uised sparingly.
↑ In liaison, the latent final consonant is pronoonced afore a follaein vouel soond, but s an x are vyced an pronoonced [z], an d is unvyced an pronoonced [t].