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Mais où est donc Ornicar ?
''Mais où est donc Ornicar ?'', or ''Mais où est donc Carnior ?'' is a French-language mnemonic that aids in remembering the language's coordinating conjunctions. The sentence literally translates as "But where, therefore, is Ornicar?", or "But then where is Ornicar?", and is a phonetic juxtaposition of the words ''mais'' (but), ''ou'' (or), ''et'' (and), ''donc'' (therefore), ''or'' (however), ''ni'' (nor), and ''car'' (for).
The phrase is often learned by French school children, and has had an impact on French culture, including having an asteroid named after it and inspiring the titles of numerous literary, musical and cinematic works.
==Composition==
Of the seven coordinating conjunctions included in the mnemonic, four (''et'', ''ou'', ''ni'' and ''mais'') are universally recognised as such in French. ''Car'' is also a coordinating conjunction meaning "because".〔http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv5/visusel.exe?11;s=2841050880;r=1;nat=;sol=0;〕 ''Or'' is sometimes considered a coordinating conjunction, but can also be treated as an adverb. The grammatical reference work ''Le Bon Usage'' classes these six as conjunctions, but ''donc'' as an adverb—it also notes that other constructions such as ''puis'', ''aussi'' and ''seulement'' have some characteristics of coordinating conjunctions.
Although two of the words in the sentence, ''mais'' and ''donc'', have both the same spelling and meaning as the conjunctions they represent, it relies on homophones of other French words. The French relative pronoun ''où'' (where) is used because it sounds the same as ''ou'' (or); the presence of a grave accent differentiates their orthography. ''Est'', a third-person present tense form of the verb ''être'' (to be), is used instead of the conjunction ''et'' (and); again, in this context, they are pronounced similarly. ''Ornicar''—which is intended to sound like a French given name, even though it is not one —is used as a proper noun to represent the three conjunctions ''or'' (now/yet), ''ni'' (nor) and ''car'' (for).
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