Vocab/phrases

Question 1

Je ne comprends pas.

Answer 1

I do not know.

Question 2

i) Tu peux répéter? ou f) Pouvez-vous répéter?

Answer 2

Can you repeat?

Question 3

J’ai une question.

Answer 3

I have a question.

Question 4

Comment dit-on ____?

Answer 4

How do you say ____?

Question 5

i) ça veut dire quoi ___?

Answer 5

What does ____ mean?

quoi= what

Question 6

C’est tout.

Answer 6

That’s all.

Question 7

Donc, alors

Answer 7

so, thus, then, therefore

Question 8

Je suis médecin.

Answer 8

I am a doctor.

pronounced med-sahn

Question 9

en haut

Answer 9

up

kinda sounds like a nasal ‘on-o’ or ‘en-o’ but the n is not really pronounced. haut is pronounced ‘o’.

Question 10

en bas

Answer 10

down

Question 11

Je voudrais aller.

ou Je veux y aller

Answer 11

I would like to go. or

I want to go.

Question 12

On peut se tutoyer?

Answer 12

Can we use ‘tu’ (now that we know each other)?
tutoyer = to use ‘tu’
vouvoyer = to use “vous”

Question 13

gauche / à gauche

Answer 13

left / to the left

gauche also means gawky, unsophisticated, and lacking in grace in french and in english!

Question 14

droite / à droite

Answer 14

right/ to the right

Question 15

Qu’est-que cela veut dire? ou
Qu’est-ce que cela signifie? ou
Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire?

Answer 15

What does that mean?

• -cela = it/that
• -ça = that
• -‘signifier’ and ‘vouloir dire’ = to mean. veut is from vouloir.

Question 16

Merci pour m’aidez.

Answer 16

Thank you for helping me.

Question 17

I’m hot.

Answer 17

“J’ai chaud” (lit : I have hot)

NOT “je suis chaude” (I’m hot said by a woman) means “I’m horny”. YIKES

This is one of many cases where the verb “to be” in English becomes “to have” in French.
I’m hungry => j’ai faim (lit: I have hunger)
I’m thirsty => j’ai soif (lit: I have thirst)

Question 18

i) Tu peux répéter, s’il vous plait? ou

f) Pouvez-vous répéter, s’il te plait?

Answer 18

Can you repeat (what you said) please?

Question 19

Comment dit-on ____?

Answer 19

How do you say ____?

Question 20

i) ça veut dire quoi ___?

Answer 20

what does ___ mean?

Question 21

Can we use ‘tu’ (now that we know each other)?

Answer 21

On peut se tutoyer?

Question 22

What does that mean? (3 different ways to say it)

Answer 22

Qu’est-que cela veut dire? ou
Qu’est-ce que cela signifie? ou
Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire?

Question 23

il y a

Answer 23

there is, there are

Question 24

there is, there are

Answer 24

il y a