aimer - to love or to like - How do you say that you love someone, or that you like a hot dog in French?
Vous connaissez probablement le verbe “aimer”; mais saviez-vousque, en français, il existe 2 formes dumême verbe–AIMER – pour exprimer sonamour pourune personne, ou combien onaime la galette-saucisse ? Voyez la liste et écoutez les exemples de comment exprimer l’amour et le dégoût.
You probably know that aimer means to love; but did you know that in French, there are 2 ways of using the same verb – AIMER – to express your love for a person, or how much you like the taste of Breton hot dogs? Check this list of how to express loves, likes and dislikes and listen to the examples.
il s’agit de, or S’AGIR DE in its infinitive form, has many translations. Here are some common ones.
to be, to be about
to be necessary
to come to
S’AGIR DE is a defective verb – It doesn’t have all the forms of a regular verb, it’s only conjugated with the neutral IL (no JE, TU, ELLE, ON, NOUS, VOUS, ILS, ELLES). Its structure is a bit different in French. It often involves a DANS.
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About DE
DE becomes
DU when preceding a masculine noun – du café
DE LA when preceding a feminine noun – de la menthe
DE L’ when preceding a noun starting with a vowel – de l’eau
DES when preceding a plural noun – des thés
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Translate from one language to the other
Français
Dans ce jeu, il s’agit de gagner le plus possible de petits lapins.
De quoi s’agit-il ?
Pour faire des progrès, il s’agit d’écouter le texte plusieurs fois.
Il ne s’agissait pas de nous.
Ce dont il s’agit, c’est de fierté.
English
What is it about?
If you want to make progress, it's necessary to / it comes to listening to the text several times.
It wasn’t about us.
Pride is what it’s about.
This game is about winning as many small rabbits as possible.
une plage – a beach. Can ‘une plage’ be ‘a time slot’? Really?
If you know the word plage, you probably think it means a beach, right? Well, you’re right. However, it also means ‘a time slot in your schedule, your calendar’, ‘a window’ I guess you could say in English.
Chez le coiffeur – At the hairdresser’s
« Auriez-vous une petite plage demain pour un rendez-vous pour des mèches. »
“Would you have a small slot for an appointment tomorrow in your schedule? I need highlights.”
un fou rire – a mad laugh. In everyday French, un fou rire means an uncontrollable laugh, the giggles. It’s used with AVOIR, but also with the verb piquer – to poke, to sting, to prick, to bite. You also hear une crise de fou rire. a crisis of mad laughter.
I really like this French expression. piquer une crise de fou rire – to poke a crisis of mad laughter. It means ‘to have a fit of laughter’, ‘to have the giggles’. I translate it as ‘to giggle your head off’.
« Le serveur a fait tomber son plateau et on a piqué une crise de fou rire. C’était très gênant. »
“The waiter’s tray fell and we started to giggle our heads off. It was very embarrassing.”
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