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What does " de quoi " mean in French ?

Avoir + de quoi + verbe à l'infinitif = to have the means/the equipment to do something - Vous avez de quoi faire des lasagnes chez vous ? // Do you (plural or formal) have the ingredients to make lasagna at home ? Note : When talking about food, it will usually mean "do you have the ingredients to make...." but it might also refer to the equipment required, such as an oven/a wok... - T'as de quoi prendre des notes ? // Do you have something to take notes on/with ? - T'as de quoi payer sur toi ? // Do you have any money on you? You can also use this structure with other verbs like "acheter" (to buy) ou "prendre" (to bring) for example : - J'ai acheté de quoi faire des crêpes. // I bought the necessary ingredients to make some crêpes. Note 1 : It might also refer to a specific kind of pan used to make crêpes. Note 2 : Crêpes and pancakes are absolutely not the same thing and I refuse to use those words interchangeably. - J'ai pris de quoi lire. // I brought something to read with me. - J'ai pris de quoi manger. // I brought something to eat with me.

Avoir + de quoi + verbe à l'infinitif can also be translated as "to have enough (of something) to do something : - J'ai de quoi vivre confortablement pendant un an sans travailler // I have enough (money) to live comfortably for a year without working. - J'ai, dans mes placarts, de quoi manger pendant un mois. // I have, in my cupboards, enough (food) to eat for a month.

Other uses of "de quoi" -> À la suite de quoi = Whereupon -> Some verbs might require the use of "de quoi" in certain cases : - Il n'y a pas de quoi s'inquiéter. // There is nothing to worry about. - Il n'y a pas de quoi s'énerver. // There is nothing to get worked up about. - Je ne comprends pas de quoi on parle. // I don't understand what we are talking about. - Mais de quoi tu parles ? // What the hell are you talking about ? Note : Be careful with "mais" at the beginning of a question, it is the equivalent of "what the hell"/"what on earth" Mais qu'est ce que tu fais encore là ? // What the hell are you still doing here ?

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#16 + 4 + (7-4=3)= 23

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have my first final in 2 hours hate it here </3

#girl same #good luck 🍀🤞

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𝕮𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖎𝖓𝖘 𝖉'𝕳𝖊𝖐𝖆𝖙𝖊 • 𝕬𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖆 𝖅𝖔𝖌𝖗𝖆𝖋𝖔𝖚

L'intégrale en français...je savais pas qu'il était dispo! Je vais mourir de joie 🧙

The whole book in french...

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Pʜᴏᴛᴏɢʀᴀᴘʜʏ ʙʏ Nᴏɴᴀ Lɪᴍᴍᴇɴ.

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The internet is so filthy tellement dégoûtant

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Savage expressions

Avoir été bercé-e trop près du mur (having been rocked too close from the wall as a baby) : being very stupid

Être fini-e à la pisse (being finished with piss, during conception) : being a crappy/completely useless human being 

Avoir une tête de vainqueur (looking like a winner) : looking dumb

Con comme la lune/un balai/un manche/ses pieds/une chaise (dumb like the moon/a broom/a handle/feet/a chair)

Ne pas être une flèche/lumière (not being an arrow/light) : being dumb

Marie-Chantal : generic name of a rich snob despicable lady

Ne pas se prendre pour de la merde (not thinking of one as shit) : acting entitled, proud, selfish

Pompe à merde (shit pump)

Saoul-e comme un Polonais (drunk like a Polish man)

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Famous sayings #1

À bon chat bon rat (To good cat good rat) : train cats to hunt rats and they’ll become great rat hunters but the rats great cat avoiders as well

À coeur vaillant, rien d’impossible (To a brave heart, nothing’s impossible)

À la guerre comme à la guerre (To the war like to the war) : when you’re In need, use whatever you can find and don’t expect help

Après la pluie le beau temps (After rain comes fine weather)

Après l’effort le réconfort (After effort comes solace) : you deserve a treat after working hard

Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois (In the kingdom of the blinds, the one-eyed are kings)

Aux grands maux les grands remèdes (To big problems big solutions)

Ce n’est pas à un vieux singe qu’on apprend à faire la grimace (You don’t teach old monkeys to make funny faces) : elders know better than you

Ce n’est pas tombé dans l’oreille d’un sourd (It didn’t fall in a deaf man’s ear) : I’m happy/intrigued/excited about what you said

C’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait les meilleures soupes (It’s in the old pots we make the best soups) : the old methods are often the best

C’est en forgeant qu’on devient forgeron (Forging makes you a blacksmith) : you have to practice to become a pro

C’est l’hôpital qui se fout de la charité (That’s hospitals mocking charity) : don’t speak ill of someone about something you do too 

Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop (Chase away nature and it’ll be back at full speed)

Coeur qui soupire n’a pas ce qu’il désire (Sighing heart doesn’t have what it wants)

comme le nez au milieu de la figure (Like the nose in the middle of the face) : about something obvious 

Faute avouée à moitié pardonnée (Confessed mistake half forgiven)

Il faut battre le fer tant qu’il est chaud (Strike while the iron’s hot)

Other sayings posts

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About working

To work hard : travailler dur, se donner du mal, v

To get to work : se mettre au travail, v

To hire : embaucher, v ; to fire : renvoyer / virer (fam), v

To quit : démissionner / donner sa démission, v

Being payed : être payé-e

Work experience/internship : stage (m)

Training : formation (f)

Company : entreprise (f), boîte (f, fam)

Bankruptcy : faillite (f), être en faillite, v

Boss : patron-ne, chef-fe, supérieur-e (also an adj)

HR : RH, ressources humaines (f, pl)

Administrator : gestionnaire (ep)

Worker : travailleur/se, employee : employé-e, coworker : collègue (ep)

Receptionist : hôte-sse d’accueil (we usually use the feminine form)

Trainee : stagiaire (ep)

Salary : salaire (m)

Skills : compétences (f)

Profit : bénéfices (m, pl)

Pay slip : fiche de paie (f)

Employment contract : contrat de travail (m)

Project : projet (m)

Office : bureau (m) (also the word for a desk)

Break : pause (f)

Part-time : mi-temps, full-time : plein-temps

Flexitime : horaires aménagés (m)

Freelance : free-lance, indépendant-e

Extra hours : heures supp(lémentaires) (f)

I’m working on something : je travaille sur quelque chose

Busy : occupé-e, adj

Day off : congé(s) (m), vacation : vacances (f, pl)

Paid leave : congé payé

During an interview :

Parlez-moi de vous : tell me about you

Quels sont vos points forts : what are your strengths 

Quelles sont vos faiblesses : what are your weaknesses 

Pourquoi devrions-nous vous embaucher : why should we hire you

Qu’est-ce qui vous motive à propos de ce poste : what motivates you about that job

Avez-vous des questions : do you have any questions

Quand pouvez-vous commencer : when can you start working

Pourquoi devrais-je vous choisir : why should I chose you

Quelles sont vos prétentions salariales : what are your salary expectations

Savez-vous travailler en équipe : can you work in a team

Où vous voyez-vous dans cinq ans : where do you see yourself in five years

Savez-vous parler anglais : can you speak english

Que savez-vous de notre entreprise : what do you know about our company

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Être- expressions

Être à cheval sur les principes - being very serious about one’s principles

Être à la masse - having no idea what’s going on (informal)

Être bête à manger du foin - being extra stupid

Être charrette - being late or overloaded with work (informal)

Être cloué au lit - being sick in bed

Être dans de beaux/sales draps - being in trouble

Être dans la mouise - being in trouble

Être dans le rouge - going into overdraft (bank)

Être dans les bras de Morphée - being asleep

Être dans les pommes - having fainted

Être dans ses petits souliers - being in an embarrassing situation

Être de mèche - being the accomplice of someone

Être dur d’oreille - being hard of hearing

Être en cloque - being pregnant (rude)

Être en couches - being in bed after giving birth

Être en porte-à-faux - being in an embarrassing situation 

Être fait comme un rat - being done for

Être fini à la pisse - being extra stupid (rude)

Être habillé à l’as de pique - being badly dressed

Être le dos au mur - being cornered, having to face consequences

Être pédé comme un phoque - being super gay (rude)

Être pendu aux lèvres de - listening to someone with attention

Être sous les projecteurs - getting a lot of attention

Être sur la bonne route - going the right way 

Être sur la corde raide - being in a complicated situation

Être sur le bord de l’abîme - being in a complicated situation

Être sur les dents - being mad

Être sur une mauvaise pente - making bad action after bad action

Être verni - being super lucky

Être vert de rage - being extra mad

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Hello!

I'm trying to find some resources about gendering language in French, as we do in German with a * between the masculine and feminine ending! I saw some people use les ami.e.s for example, but it's hard to find anything, especially when your French isn't on the level where you can understand what a google search gives you. Do you have any info regarding that?

Hello,

We usually use a point médian (Les agriculteur·rice·s) or regular dots (Les ami.e.s) for nouns and adjectives - I’ve been using a singular dash (Les boulanger-es) since 2014 and adding a slash (Les instituteurs/trices) when necessary because no one was sure what to do at the time. (Yes, mum is an OG.)

When it comes to pronouns, we use Iel(s) and have invented neutral versions of other ones like Toustes (All) or Celleux (Those). You can also just say Celles et ceux or Toutes et tous (the feminine goes first), although it remains binary.

“All my friends are tall” would be Toustes mes ami·e·s sont grand·e·s.

Hope this helps! x

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Peaches

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Hello! I used to be jeanlucgodard but tumblr terminated my account. I tried really hard to get it back, but they never responded to me. I was very known in the french community for my google drive of french new wave films. Here is the link again! I would very much appreciate if you could reblog so people can know what happened to me and have access to this drive again. Thank you!

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Internet French

As promised, some keyboard slang (we stole a lot from you)(sue us). I wrote what is accurate at the moment, a few years ago it was quite popular to write lik this m8 but it became pretty unhip (I could tell you that you can type “aussi” (: too, as well) “O6″ but literally no one has done that since 2008) most people write normally and add some of the following words :

Basics :

jpp (je n’en peux plus) : I can’t stand it anymore, I’m dying from the lols

osef (on s’en fout) : no one cares

mdr (mort-e de rire) / ptdr (pété-e de rire) : lol

cmb / ctb (comme ma bite/comme ta bite) “like my dick/like your dick” : easy punchline to almost anything, ex : ‘the line was so long!’ ‘cmb’ ‘you have a short memory’ (tu as la mémoire courte) ‘ctb’

cmt (comment) : how / cmb (combien) : how much/many

slt (salut) / bjr (bonjour) / bsr (bonsoir) : hello

bn (bonne nuit) : good night

bcp (beaucoup) : a lot, much, many / tp (trop) : too, too much

mtnt (maintenant) : now / ajd (aujourd’hui) : today / jms (jamais) : never

srtt (surtout) : especially, above all / vrmt (vraiment) : really

jsp (je ne sais pas) : I don’t know / ms (mais) but

pr (pour) : for / pcq / pq (parce que) : because

pq / pk (pourquoi) : why

ss (sans) : without OR (sous) : under / sr (sur) : over, on

tt (tout) : all, everything OR (tant) : so much, as long

mn (mon) : my (m) / tn (ton) : your (m) / sn (son) : his/her

ns (nous) : we OR (nos) : ours / vs (vous) : you (pl) OR (vos) yours (pl) / lr (leur(s)) : their / theirs

fr (faire) : to do, make

tmtc (toi-même tu sais) : you know what I’m talking about, private joke

tkt / tqt (ne t’inquiète pas) : don’t worry

c (c’est) : it is OR (sais/sait) : know (½/3p sg) / ct (c’était) : it was

d (des) : some, ex : mange des chips / t (tes) : your (pl for one person)

h (heure) : time/hour, ex : on se voit à ql h? (at what time do we meet?)

keske (qu’est-ce que) : what is, ex : qu’est-ce c’est?

kesta (qu’est-ce que tu as) : what’s up/wrong with you?

ke / q (que) : that/what, ex : ke ve tu? (what do you want?)

ql / kel (quel(s)/quelle(s)) : what/which

askip (à ce qu’il paraît) : from what I’ve heard, apparently…

oklm (au calme) : relaxed, calm, ex : petite soirée oklm 

Borrowing to english or kids :

go : to leave (j’y go)

dodo (beddy byes) : to sleep, sleeping (je vais dodo)

miam (aka “yum”) : to eat (je vais miam)

lol, the legendary

chiller : to go somewhere and not do shit

fat : something big/amazing, ex : cette soirée est trop fat!

Dropping the vowels : 

It’s hard to explain but since so many words in french contain “ou”, “an”, “ai” or “on” (…), when we need or want to make verbs (or possessive pronouns as we have already seen) smaller, we drop those letters and the other person guesses what’s missing regarding the context.

A few examples (but you can play with lots of other verbs) :

vx / vt (veux/veut) : to want, ½/3psg, ex : tu vx d pom? je ss o magasin (do you want apples? I’m at the store) ; (voit) : to see, meet, 3psg

ss / st (sais/sait) : to know, ½/3psg ; (suis/suit) : to follow, ½/3psg ; (suis/sont) : to be 1psg+3ppl, ex : où st t chats? (where are your cats?)

cns (connais) : to know someone, 1p sg

pvs (pouvons) : to can, be able/allowed to, 1p pl

Please note : I have used 1/2/3psg or pl several times in that post, if you have doubts it means that those forms are the conjugated forms - Reminder : je / tu / il-elle-on (singulier) ; nous / vous / ils-elles (pluriel).

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norwegian resources (for @fairuzgf)

Norwegian on the Web — free course by NTNU

Barnebøker for Norge (children’s books for norway) — free norwegian children’s books for a variety of levels & they also have audio! also they have an option to go between bokmål and nynorsk which is pretty fun

Klart Det! — for more advanced lessons (B2+)

Norwegian Teacher Karin on youtube — she doesn’t upload that frequently anymore but her past videos are super helpful

NorwegianClass101 on youtube

Future Learn Introduction to Norwegian — free four week course by the university of oslo

På Vei (textbook) — this is a beginner textbook but it’s entirely in norwegian so a bit of knowledge of norwegian is needed

På Vei Digital — free exercises to go along with på vei

Exploring Norwegian Grammar — free grammar website made by kirsti macdonald who co-wrote på vei 

Loecsen Learn Norwegian — another free (very beginner) course

norwegian dictionary with both bokmål and nynorsk — not a translation dictionary but just a regular one but it has both bokmål and nynorsk

NRK Nyheter — this is a bit advanced obviously but NRK is my go-to if i want norwegian reading practice (it’s just news but also NRK has tv programs as well including skam & they also have radio)

SKAM website full episodes — you’ll need a vpn but they have norwegian subtitles also it’s great for learning how people speak every day

Lovleg episodes — same as above (you’ll need a vpn) also lovleg will be a little hard to understand if you’re learning bokmål bc it’s very dialect-y but another show to watch in norwegian that i think is good

my norwegian playlist on spotify — it’s not super long but good for discovering norwegian music if you don’t know any :-)

edit bc my friend recommended these 2 podcasts:

Norsk for Beginners — for A1-A2 learners

Lær Norsk Nå — for B1-B2 learners

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Expressing pain/symptoms

My (body part) hurts: "I am hurt at the "body part" - we don't use a possessive as the body part is necessarily ours.

Ex: J’ai mal à la jambe: My leg hurts.

Having a hard time doing something: J'ai du mal à + verb

Ex: J'ai du mal à respirer: I have trouble breathing

Acouphènes, f: Tinnitus

Amaigrissement, m: Weight loss

Angoisses, f: Anguish, anxieties

Asymptomatique: Asymptomatic

Ballonnements: Bloating

Bouche sèche, f: Dry mouth

Bouffées de chaleur, f: Hot flashes

Bouton, m: Pimple

Brûlure, f: Burn

Congestion nasale, f: Stuffy nose

Constipation, f: Constipation

Convulsions, f: Convulsions

Courbatures, f: Body aches

Cracher du sang: Spitting blood

Crampes, f (period)/une crampe (muscle): Cramps

Croûte, f: Scab

Délire, m: Delirium

Démangeaison, f: Itch

Douleurs musculaires, f: Muscle pain

Diarrhée, f: Diarrhea

Dysphorie, f: Dysphoria

Engourdi-e: Numb

Engourdissement, m: Numbness

Enroué-e: Hoarse

Enrhumé-e: Having a cold (adjective)

Épuisé-e: Exhausted

Éruption cutanée, f: Skin rash

Éternuement, m: Sneeze

Éternuer: Sneezing

Être malade: Being sick

Essouflé-e: Short of breath

Extinction de voix, f: Loss of voice

Fatigué-e: Tired

Fièvre, f: Fever

Fiévreux/euse: Feverish

Flatulences, f: Flatulency

Fourmillements, m: Pins and needles (Fourmi: ant)

Frissons, m: Shivers

Frissonner: Shivering

Ganglions, m: Swollen glands

Gargouillements, m: Gurgling

Glaires, m: Phlegm

Gonflé-e: Swollen, Bloated (belly)

Gonflement, m: Swelling

Griffe, f: Scratch

Grosseur, f: Lump

Hyperventilation, f: Hyperventilation

Jambes lourdes, f: Tired/heavy legs

Nausée, f: Nausea

Ne pas se sentir bien: Not feeling well

Ne plus goûter/perdre le goût: Not having a sense of taste

Ne plus sentir les odeurs/perdre l'odorat: Not having a sense of smell

Nez bouché, m: Blocked nose

Nez qui coule, m: Runny nose

Oeil qui pique, m: Itchy eye

Oeil qui pleure, m: Watery eye

Oreilles qui sifflent, f: Ringing ears

Pâleur, f: Paleness

Paralysie, f: Paralysis

Perte d'appétit, f: Loss of appetite

Perte de mémoire, f: Memory loss

Perte d'équilibre, f: Loss of balance

Point de côté: Side stitch

Pulsative: Throbbing

Pupilles dilatées, f: Dilated pupils

Rage de dents: Raging toothache

Régurgitations, f: Regurgitations

Rhume, m: Cold

Rougeurs, f: Red patches

Salivation, f: Salivation

Sécheresse, f: Dryness

Sécrétion, f: Discharge

Sensibilité au toucher, f: Sensitivity to touch

Somnolence, f: Drowsiness

Souffle au coeur, m: Heart murmur

Syncope, f: Blackout

Tousser: Coughing

Toux, f: Cough

Toux sèche, f: Dry cough

Transpiration, f: Sweatiness

Tremblements, m: Shaking

Vaginisme, m: Vaginismus

Vertiges, m: Dizziness

Vomir: Puking

Vomissements, m: Vomiting

Vocabulary post about health/illnesses