French Phrases

cson

Just over 20 hours to French. To say I'm extremely worried would be a major understatement. Me being a lazy bum and my teacher being a useless bum has to conspired to leave my up faeces creek sans un paddle.

So heres my SOS; Any of you who are linguistically gifted out there, could you post your classy/flashy french phrases so at the very least I have something to write down for the essay.

And if anyone wants to write a general opening and closing paragraph to the essay/reaction qs/diary/letter that would be great. I'd do it myself but its guaranteed I'd fúck it up.

Merci

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Parce-que je le vaux bien - Because I'm worth it ....l'oreal

powerofone

Putain- WHORE!!!

Ah no, just learn the basics like "I agree with the statement" - Je suis tout a fait avec ca

In my opinion- A mon avis

Firstly- premierement

And sorry about the lack of accent marks, this keyboard is pretty merde.

Haven't a Clue

En ce qui concerne, je pense que... = As far as _____ is concerned, I think that...
Il s'agit d'honneteté - it's a question of honesty
Il faut prendre les choses du bon coté - you must luck on the bright side
Le problem est devenu plus repandu - the problem has become more widespread
Á la suite de - as a result of
C'est un question difficile a résoudre - it's a difficult question to answer
Je doute que ce sont vrai - I doubt this is true
Qui plus est - what's more...
Toute réflaxion faite - when all is said and done
En revanche - on the other hand
Qu'on le veuille ou non - whether we like it or not

cson

Éxcellent!

Heinrich

sean_keevey wrote:

Parce-que je le vaux bien - Because I'm worth it ....l'oreal

je vaux
tu vaux
il vaut
nous valons
vous valez
ils valent

donc: je le vaut (I it worth)

SamHamilton

Je suis tout a fait d'accord avec ca

No?

Cson, I don't think you should rely on the information you get from this forum because, no offence to the people in this forum, we're not always right whereas you can be assured that a book will be.

Learn the layouts of formal letters and know the ending - dans l'attente de votre réponse etc.

For the questions on general topics like politics and the environment, this usually works nice:

Il faut que le gouvernement fasse quelquechose pour résoudre le probleme.

The government should do something to solve the problem. It uses a subjunctive which will impress the examiners.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

néanmoins - nevertheless

je meurs d'envie d'avoir + [past participle] I can't wait to have

travailler d'arrache pied - to work one's ass off

en dépit de - despite

malgré le fait - despite the fact

le oui-dire - hear-say

Cependant on doit le faire que on aime ou pas - however one has to do it whether they like it or not (bonus marks for use of the subjunctive)

la varieté est l'épice de la vie - cariety is the spice of life

il faut s'en souvenir - it is necessary to remember

se méfier de - to distrust

Citizen_Erased

Actually about that phrase about the government , we were actually warned to avoid it by our teacher because we were told that everybody has used it constantly for the past number of years and so examiners are not only bored senseless of it but it also shows that you are simply regurgatating a phrase.

Heinrich

Haven't a Clue wrote:

En ce qui concerne, je pense que... = As far as _____ is concerned, I think that...
Il s'agit d'honneteté - it's a question of honesty
Il faut prendre les choses du bon coté - you must luck on the bright side
Le problem est devenu plus repandu - the problem has become more widespread
Á la suite de - as a result of
C'est un question difficile a résoudre - it's a difficult question to answer
Je doute que ce sont vrai - I doubt this is true
Qui plus est - what's more...
Toute réflaxion faite - when all is said and done
En revanche - on the other hand
Qu'on le veuille ou non - whether we like it or not

Je doute que ce c'est vrai
Toute réflexion faite
Il faut prendre les choses du bon côté you must look on the bright side

marco_polo

Baaaaaaaaaaa............. Oui. = Ammmmmmmmmm......... Yes

Good phrase for stalling.

**Disclaimer** may not be quite as effective in the written form

Thomas_S_Hunterson

marco_polo wrote:

Baaaaaaaaaaa............. Oui. = Ammmmmmmmmm......... Yes

Good phrase for stalling.

**Disclaimer** may not be quite as effective in the written form

lol

I'm guessing your oral was...interesting;)

JC 2K3

Je m'appelle.... = my name is....

JC 2K3

marco_polo wrote:

Baaaaaaaaaaa............. Oui. = Ammmmmmmmmm......... Yes

Good phrase for stalling.

**Disclaimer** may not be quite as effective in the written form

LMAO.

Heinrich

marco_polo wrote:

Baaaaaaaaaaa............. Oui. = Ammmmmmmmmm......... Yes

Good phrase for stalling.

**Disclaimer** may not be quite as effective in the written form

Argot will not get you brownie points.

Stalling... alors euh

Mushy

Nous sommes éngages dans une suerre contre un ennemi sans visage--We are engaged in a war against an enemy without a face

Thats a good one for drugs. Heres hoping for some miraculous B tomorrow:rolleyes:

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Mushy wrote:

Nous sommes éngages dans une suerre contre un ennemi sans visage--We are engaged in a war against an enemy without a face

Thats a good one for drugs. Heres hoping for some miraculous B tomorrow:rolleyes:

Guerre?

fallon54

Informal Letters:
• Il me tarde recevoir de tes nouvelles
• Je m’excuse d’avoir + PP
• Je te remercie de tout coeur de ta lettre
• J’espere que tu as fait bon voyage
• J’aimerais savoir si...
• Il est tres sympa
• Je ne sais pas comment je vais me debrouiller
• Est-ce que tu es libre en juillet
• Ecris-moi le plus vite possible
• Je dois te quitter maintenant
• Il commence a se faire tard
• El commernce a se faire tard
• En ce qui me concerne
• J’aimerais bien a avoir de ses nouvelles
• Je vous souhaite un joyeux anniversaire

Insert accents where appropriate

Heinrich

Mushy wrote:

Nous sommes éngages dans une suerre contre un ennemi sans visage--We are engaged in a war against an enemy without a face

Thats a good one for drugs. Heres hoping for some miraculous B tomorrow:rolleyes:

"Faceless enemy "would be the expression.

engagés would be the word:rolleyes:

on peut aussi dire "on est engag dans une guerre"

guerre, bataille, conflict armé

fallon54

Anyone else think the whole booking a campsite/hotel or applying for a job could come up?

also, how the hell do you put accents into word in MS word

Heinrich

fallon54 wrote:

Anyone else think the whole booking a campsite/hotel or applying for a job could come up?

also, how the hell do you put accents into word in MS word

In the toolbar

Insert - symbol. Select the font and character from the window.

Mushy

Whoops, I did mean guerre, speeling was off in the typing. I just translated it literally too. My spelling is really off. It was egagés, not éngages. Ah screw this, but ya get the idea. I was thinking engaged.

mathew

Heinrich wrote:

je vaux
tu vaux
il vaut
nous valons
vous valez
ils valent

donc: je le vaut (I it worth)

Eh.. nope!!

Je vaux... I earn
Je le vaux... I earn it
Je le vaux bien... I earn it well... ie I am worth it
parce-que je le vaux bien... because I'm worth it.

The verb agrees with the personal pronoun, ie the 'je'

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Mushy wrote:

Whoops, I did mean guerre, speeling was off in the typing. I just translated it literally too. My spelling is really off. It was egagés, not éngages. Ah screw this, but ya get the idea. I was thinking engaged.

Ya know Heinrich(and fallon54) you can get the accents just using Alt Gr and the vowel, although just the basic fada styley ones

Actually while you're all on about vaut, heres decent phrase.
'Il ne vaut pas le coup'-It isn't worth the blow(when referring to nuclear energy or summit

Edit once more- If you are saying 'il faut dire que...' do you still have to use the subjunctive after?

Thomas_S_Hunterson

mathew wrote:

Eh.. nope!!

Je vaux... I earn
Je le vaux... I earn it
Je le vaux bien... I earn it well... ie I am worth it
parce-que je le vaux bien... because I'm worth it.

The verb agrees with the personal pronoun, ie the 'je'

Cheers mat

Vindicated at last!

nedward

playa3 wrote:

Edit once more- If you are saying 'il faut dire que...' do you still have to use the subjunctive after?

On n'en a pas besoin.

Heinrich

sean_keevey wrote:

Cheers mat

Vindicated at last!

oops:o

eily

la question épineuse ~ the thorny question
on peut constater que ~ one can see that
on doit debrouiller les faits ~ sort out the facts
il faut tirer l'affaire au clair ~ shed light on the matter

personal favourites ha!

Heinrich

playa3 wrote:

Ya know Heinrich(and fallon54) you can get the accents just using Alt Gr and the vowel, although just the basic fada styley ones

The question asked was how to get accents in Word.

There is also the character map in Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map.

And of course if you have a continental keyboard of a specific country you get the accented characters directly from the keyboard.:D

• alt+0224 gives à
• alt+0225 gives á
• alt+0226 gives â
• alt+0232 gives è
• alt+0223 gives é

That is the way it is done!:D

Of course you already knew that:rolleyes:

Mushy

playa3, that about sums up my day of writing out words. At least I didnt have to do it for maths

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Heinrich wrote:

The question asked was how to get accents in Word.

There is also the character map in Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map.

And of course if you have a continental keyboard of a specific country you get the accented characters directly from the keyboard.:D

• alt+0224 gives à
• alt+0225 gives á
• alt+0226 gives â
• alt+0232 gives è
• alt+0223 gives é

That is the way it is done!:D

Of course you already knew that:rolleyes:

Yeah and what i said is also applicable in word, sheesh...:rolleyes:

Marshy

On doit appeller un chat un chat - one must call spade a spade

Ce n'est pas le Pérou - it's nothing to write home about

Je ne tournerai pas autour de pot - I wont beat around the bush

Ce n'est pas la mer a boire - it's not asking the impossible

nervous_twitch

mathew wrote:

parce-que je le vaux bien... because I'm worth it.

Just worth noting that parce que is not hyphenated