Comme Une Francaise Flashcards
T’inquiéte
Don’t worry
Pas de souci
No problem
Aucun problème
No problem
Y’a pas de souci
No problem
une égratignure
une éraflure
a scratch
Comme d’habitude
Comme d’hab
As usual
Á la bonne franquette
With no pretension
Simple, enjoying life
Quoi de neuf?
What’s new?
Un raccourci
a shortcut
au fait
By the way
prounce the t
almost always at begining of sentence, sometimes end
d’ailleurs
By the way
I’m thinking
en fait
Actually
pronounce the t
often singled out by commas
actuellement
now
actuel
current
revenons à nos moutons
Let’s return to the topic at hand.
en réalité
effectivement
actually
le fait
the fact
don’t pronounce the t
C’est bien fait pour toi.
You deserve that.
Negative connotation - not for a good occurrence
la fête
a party
s’effacer
to step, move aside
to fade (photograph, cloth…)
dès
dès que possible
as soon as
when followed by a condition or starting point in the near future
as soon as possible
s is silent
depuis
since, also from
Il nous appelle depuis Paris.
also could be “de Paris”
Ça fait [duration] que [action]
[action] has been going on for [duration]
à partir de
starting from, since
entre quelle heure et quelle heure?
entre quand et quand?
between what times?
une forchette
une forchette horaire
une forchette de prix
a range
a time range
a price range
approximativement
à peu près
en gros (familiar)
à la louche (familiar)
approximately, about
roughly, basically
allô
standard introduction for video or phone call
doesn’t mean hello, just makes sure someone is there
les salamalecs
excessively long greetings
euh
french for “um”
colloquial for whining
ouais
yeah, maybe a little uncertain, no ironically
les yéyés
french baby boomers
nan
no counterpqrt of ouais
mouais
uncertain response
Hein?
surprise, confusing response
close to quoi?
At the end of a statment means “right?” but more definitive.
et puis voilà quoi
expresses you have arrived at the end of your thougt, story, point
envoyer du pâté, lourd, gros, steak
Ça envoie du pâté.
to be awsome, to kick butt
That’s great.
Tu me manque.
Je te manque.
You are missing from me. Instead of “I miss you.”
You miss me.
Il ne fallait pas.
Vous n’auriez pas dû.
he shouldn’t have
you don’t have to
petit
small but also simple in a good way
may express false modesty
plural rule 1
add an s
adjectives also become plural
plural rule 2
words ending in s, x or z don’t change
plural rule 3
- eau, -au, -eu all add an x
- al becomes -aux
plural rule 4
bijou(x) jewelry caillou(x). rocks chou(x) cabbage genou(x) knees hibou(x) owls joujou(x) toys pou(x) lice all male nouns
plural rule 5
un oiel, deux yeux
un porte-monnaie, des porte-monnaie
un arc-en-ciel (rainbow), des arcs-en-ciel
un amour, un orgue, un délice - male singular, feminine plural
venir
to come
i just did this
more general than arriver
3rd group verb
arriver
to arrive more specific than venir close to réussir (to manage) can mean to happen or occur 1st group verb
le ménage
house cleaning
apprivoiser
to tame an animal, not by force, to be a friend
similar to dompter
can be used to mean taking time to make a friend
le dépaysement
seeing things you are not familar with in a good way
le ras-le-bol
the feeling of anger, frustration about to errupt about a situation
feed up
râler
complaining
more forceful than se peindre (to complain)
noun form: un râleur
les retrouvailles
plural, femine noun
people who reunite
tartiner
to spread something (like butter)
une tartine: a piece of something with something else spread on it
