tonal

tɔnal

tonaux

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Definition of tonal - Reverso French Dictionary

Adjective

harmonie

TECH.

relatif à un système musical organisé autour d'une tonique

TECH.

Cette œuvre tonale suit les principes classiques et s'oppose à l'écriture atonale.

diatonique

harmonique

modulant

linguistique

TECH.

qui utilise les variations de hauteur pour distinguer le sens

TECH.

Le chinois est une langue tonale avec quatre tons principaux.

accentuel

prosodique

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accent tonal

système où la hauteur de la voix change le sens des mots

Le chinois mandarin utilise un accent tonal avec quatre tons principaux.

Origin of tonal

latin, tonus (ton) + suffixe adjectival -al

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la majeur

solfège tonal

gamme musicale de mode majeur ayant la note la comme tonique

tonalement

adv.

musique

selon les règles du système tonal en musique

Examples of tonal in a sentence

Son langage tonal rappelle les compositeurs romantiques.
Le thaï est également une langue tonale.
Certains dialectes africains possèdent un système tonal complexe.

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English:tonal, ...
German:tonal, tonhöhenunterscheidend, ...
Italian:tonale, ...
Spanish:tonal, ...
Portuguese:tonal, ...
Chinese:调性的, 声调的, ...
Japanese:調性的な, 声調の, ...
Arabic:نَغَمِيّ, ذو نغمات, ...
Hebrew:טוֹנָלִי, שֶׁל טוֹנִים, ...
Russian:тональный, ...
Ukrainian:тональний, ...
Catalan:tonal, ...
Danish:tonal, tonebaseret, ...
Dutch:tonaal, tonal, ...
Greek:τονικός, τονική, ...
Hungarian:tonális, hangsúlyos, ...
Khmer:តូណាល់, មានសូរសំឡេងកំណត់ន័យ, ...
Korean:조성적인, 성조의, ...
Polish:tonalny, ...
Portuguese (BR):tonal, ...
Romanian:tonal, ...
Swedish:tonal, tonbärande, ...
Thai:โทนัล, วรรณยุกต์, ...
Turkish:tonal, tonlu, ...
Vietnamese:điệu tính, có thanh điệu, ...

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Definition of tonal - Reverso French Dictionary

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