I think you mean a chaise longue? which means a long chair?

Ive also seen it spelled and spoken as chaise lounge :)

I think I get what youre asking now, I say it "shayz long" with a bit of a thing on the end of long like a subtle "a". I dont know if that's right though

Trance, your pronounciation is right on. It's a long chair .
You can lounge on it, lol....

scarlett, you're on the right track, chez is the preposition that indicates a location, like "to go to the doctor" , "aller chez le médecin"
Chez moi means home, "je suis chez moi" I'm home........
It's also an expression/noun, mon chez moi, my home .........

Bonne journée !!

Mitchdesj - were are you from? Your french is great.

I learned it as 'shez long-yu'

It is "foy-yay"

Chez of place is "shay"

LOL 'fox paw' - I am sure we have all heard that, too! It is, of course, 'fo pa'

Faux pas - but sounds like your "fo pa".

So then "shayz" is the correct pronounciation for "chaise"? I've been keeping an ear open on the decorating shows, but they are all over the place on their pronounciations.

No, not shayz. The pronunciation I learned for chaise is 'shez', rhymes with fez.

Les is right on the pronunciation of chaise, but not longue! Don't pay attention to most of those decorating shows. They have no clue when it comes to foreign pronunciations. Also, longue is just "long"-feminine form since the word chaise is a feminine noun. The English translation would be lounge chair.

Actually, cyn, I learned my pronunciation from my high school French teacher, who had studied and lived in France. The word is not pronounced long, but has a bit of a quick "yu" sound at the end. Not drawn out, but definitely NOT just long pronounced as it is in English.

Here is a site with someone pronouncing the word. I think you will be able to hear what I mean:

french longue

Sorry, Les, but I, too, had native French speakers (one Swiss, two from France) as teachers throughout my high school years, majored in French in college both here and in France, and lived in both France and Switzerland and never heard it said the way your link pronounces it (very strange-with a long 'e' sound at the end), nor the way you write it. I was not referring to the English pronunciation, but rather to the masculine form of the word which is 'long'. I do think there is somewhat of a slight, comment dirai-je, elongation of some ending sounds in French which can cause difficulties for non-native speakers (think Louvre, langue)and I do know what you mean, but should someone head over there and say it that way, he/she would most likely not be understood. The 'g' is pronounced more than we would do on both 'long' and 'longue.' One does not hear the 'u' at all.

Anyway, I was just enjoying the discussion and thought I would throw in my two cents. I suspect that differences in dialects and area of origin can account for many differences in pronunciation (French-speaking Canadians speak quite differently than those from France just as someone from Louisiana or Alabama may speak completely differently than someone from New York or Maine or London, England). I applaud anyone who is at all interested in language and who makes attempts to speak and pronounce words well.

LOL Soo umm I want to see the sofa with a house on the end :oP

And I thought it rhymed with Pays...dang now I'm an iddiot. I'm gonna eat a fill-it of beef tonight as punishment with some pine-nut no-ear! That'll learn me!

(All of which I used to hear as a waitress)

And then there was my former neighbor who once ordered a dairy-query. Which is how she thought you pronounced "daiquiri," bless her heart.

I figue if a person understands what you mean-especially when you're at a bar-no worries. Now, I just need to figure out that order...got the fill-it part-lol.

Cyn, I think the second part of the order is supposed to be Pinot Noir. LOL

How lucky for you to have lived and studied abroad. My parents offered me the chance to go to France in college, but it was a bribe to get me away from a young man. I, of course, turned it down - should have taken it - the guy is long a part of my past, but the time in France would have been a treasure forever!

When my boys had the chance to begin studying a language in 8th grade, I gently campaigned for French - I thought it would be such fun to help them, maybe brush up on my French since I had last studied in college. But non, both of them chose German.

My next goal in the near future is to begin to take some classes in Spanish. French will always be my first love, but Spanish seems so practical and a benefit for future employment.

Ha, Les, not sure I would have gotten Pinot Noir-very funny.
Yep, love, love, love France and would love to retire there. DH is even willing. It won't happen, though. Oh well.

I took a Spanish for educators class thinking it would be an easy transition, but it was hard for b/c I kept using French. Oh well. One of my instructional assistants did the Rosetta Stone course and wow, did that work for her. She ended up taking language immersion trips to Mexico and South America. She became pretty fluent. Maybe I'll try that.

I took one year of German my senior year in college-just for fun. I can tell you that "I have been standing here for five hours" and "I have bad blisters." LOL!