nothing we can do – French expression

What does ” le tour est joué ” mean? How do you say ‘ nothing we can do ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

le tour est joué – the trick is played. In everyday French, le tour est jouémeans that it’s over and ‘there is nothing we can do about it’.

• « En un tour de main, le tour était joué, et on a su que c’était lui, le nouveau champion du Tour de France. »
  “Very quickly, there was nothing we could do about it. We knew he was the new Tour de France champion.”

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here and there – French expression

What does ” ici et là ” mean? How do you say ‘ here and there ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

ici et là – here and there. Today, our expression is straight forward, y a pas photo. ici et là means ‘here and there’.

• « Si tu vas sur le site de français d’Anne, tu trouveras des photos de sa ferme ici et là. »
  • “If you go to Anne’s French site, you’ll find pictures of her farm here and there.”

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• présent > futur : Si tu vas sur le site de français d’Anne, tu trouveras des photos de sa ferme ici et là.
• imparfait > conditionnel présent : Si tu allais sur le site de français d’Anne, tu trouverais des photos de sa ferme ici et là.
• plus-que-parfait > conditionnel passé : Si tu étais allée sur le site de français d’Anne, tu aurais trouvé des photos de sa ferme ici et là.

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here we go again – French expression

What does ” c’est reparti ” mean? How do you say ‘ here we go again ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.

c’est reparti comme en 40 – it’s to leave again like in 40. 40 (quarante) is the year 1940 during the second world war. I’m not sure why we use this expression in such a way, but c’est reparti comme en 40 expresses the idea that something big and difficult is starting again. c’est reparti comme en 40 means ‘brace yourself’ or ‘here we go again’ in everyday French.

There is an older version of this expression: c’est reparti comme en 14, beginning of WW1.

• « Aïe aïe aïe ! La rentrée arrive et il va falloir se battre pour trouver toutes les fournitures à temps. C’est reparti comme en 40 ! »
  • “Oh dear ! Back-to-school is here and we’ll have to fight to find all the school supplies on time. Here we go again!”

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