Favourite French words

pickarooney

What are your favourite French words?
Mine for today are culotte and quincaillerie.

Dun

Anticonstitutionnellement - apparently it's the longest word in French

lili

me, i like to make say at the english people : heureusement.:)
it's impossible to them if they don't have a good accent to say it correctly:D

Dun

C'est facile ça - heureusement - ce que c'est dificile est bouilloire

Samson

Baise.

phreak

i like the word "bijoux" for some unknown reason.

oneweb

malheureusement - fave word

I actually have a favourite sentence (used it in the JC and LC)...

Je m'éxcuse le retard de cette lettre, mais, comme tu sais déjà, j'ai eu beaucoup de choses à faire pendant la semaine.

C'est chouette eh?

Damn pity I didn't keep up the language in college , 'cos I love it

pickarooney

hiboux, blague, mouiller.

lili

i like the word "bijou" too:)
it's a sweet word


my american friend like to say "vachement"

Dun

Originally posted by lili
my american friend like to say "vachement"

I used to like saying that but then I was told that it was 'a bit rude' so I stopped. Is it?


boulangerie - love the sound of that word. So French.

lili

well it's not pretty to say it, but it's rigolo:)

me, i like to say in english "confortable" and "possibility" that's the only words i prononce correctly i think:D

Dun

Originally posted by lili
me, i like to say in english "confortable" and "possibility" that's the only words i prononce correctly i think:D

Hmmm - if you're pronouncing it "confortable" it's not correct!! It's comfortable!

Another phrase I like is "sans souci".

lili

oops! i made a typo:)
but i sweare! i know say it properly:)

pickarooney

Ca chlingue! ? not sure how to spell it.

Ouf malade

Fada!

Fan de chichoune!

Gargouille I think I like all words with '-ouille'

Dun

Originally posted by lili
oops! i made a typo:)
but i sweare! i know say it properly:)

Ok, I believe you

lili

Originally posted by pickarooney
Ca chlingue! ? not sure how to spell it.

Ouf malade

Fada!

Fan de chichoune!

Gargouille I think I like all words with '-ouille'

au sujet de "ouille" ça me rappelle une joke:D

cela se passe dans le wagon d'un train.
il y a couple et 2 nonnes.
ils font chacun les mêmes mots croisés.
et la femme demande tout haut à son mari :
"chéri, le mot en 7 lettres qui se termine par "ouille" ( se vide quand le coup est tiré ) l'as tu trouvé?"
" mais voyons ma chérie, c'est "douille"

et une des 2 donnes demande :
"personne a une gomme?"

pickarooney

Sales réligieuses, va!

Ca me rappelle aussi une blague, si j'arrive à la raconter en français.
C'est le prof de sciences naturelles dans une école privé pour filles qui pose la question à la classe : "Quelle partie du corps humain s'aggrandit par 800% sous certaines conditiones?"
Ayant lu les réponses des jeunes demoiselles il annonce les resultats du teste, plutot exécrable.
"Mesdemoiselles, j'en tire trois conclusions de vos réponses.
1. Vous ne connaissez strictement rien à la biologie. 2. Vous avez toutes des ésprits sales. 3. Vous allez toutes être très déçues un jour. La bonne réponse était la pupille de l'oeil."


Le mot d'aujourd'hui : chien galeux

lili

putréfaction

pickarooney

bachi-bouzouk
That might be Belgian though

misswex

Merde

Pimp Ninja

Didnt know there was a French forum..

I just love the work l'ordinateur Being such a big geek I would wouldn't I

The word Poisson (sp?) goes down pretty well..

And I can be found shouting "Je suis un grand canard" when I'm pretty drunk...

pickarooney

soupçon

lili

tatillon

lili

Originally posted by Pimp Ninja
Didnt know there was a French forum..

I just love the work l'ordinateur Being such a big geek I would wouldn't I

The word Poisson (sp?) goes down pretty well..

And I can be found shouting "Je suis un grand canard" when I'm pretty drunk...

no kidding?
you speak french when you are drunk?:p

phreak

Originally posted by lili
no kidding?
you speak french when you are drunk?:p

i do too tbh. i don't even know why. i also spoke french in my irish oral which can't be a good thing.

Typedef

How about ?

Céline

zynaps

A nice phrase is "soucez mes boules".
Nice words are "conne", "saloperie" (sp?), "éclaircie" (also sp?, but meaning a bright spell or thunderclap I think... there are some beautiful words for weather stuff in French) and "Chronochromie" (time/colour?) which probably isn't a usable word, but the title of some weird music written by the french guy Messaien (who apparently had synaesthesia, the 'condition' whereby your senses mix together and you can smell and taste colours and sounds etc... cool :P)

I have a habit of saying "je suis une pamplemousse" before anything else to french-speaking people...
Et ca me plait generalement

honeymonster

bibliothèque and the French word for Stephen something like Etiene

simu

Some more cool computer-related words in French

un octet = a byte (coz 8 bits in a byte)
a megabyte is un méga-octet etc

un ludiciel = a computer game
from ludique (playful) and logiciel (software)

FAQ stands for foire aux questions !

Beruthiel

putain la vache
I use it all the time

raphaelS

Originally posted by dun_do_bheal
I used to like saying that but then I was told that it was 'a bit rude' so I stopped. Is it?


boulangerie - love the sound of that word. So French.

That's not really rude... if you said it for example in:
C'est vachement bien foutu
it means something like: This is a nice piece of engineering...

Mine will be:
Saperlipopette!

I checked once the English word: Gadzok

Raphael

raphaelS

Originally posted by Samson
Baise.

As in: tu baises?

Or did you forget the accent?
Le baisé... (the kiss)

Raphael

simu

Le baiser = the kiss

le baisé = he who has been F**ked

Sauron

[edit]en[/edit] retard=late (but its how it sounds is the part i like)

similarly......bonne heur =early (say it all together..now isn't that funny two opposites and they both sound funny ,cool):ninja:

zynaps

en retard is late, I think....

I'm guessing un retard means "a retard" :P

Sauron

the wise words of zynaps proclaimed
en retard is late, I think....

I'm guessing un retard means "a retard" :P

duelly noted:p
but i don't think un retard means "retard" but I'm not sure:ninja:

raphaelS

Un retard is a delay

A retard is un retardé...!

And early it's "de bonne heure" to be exact

There's one funny phrase with that:
De bonne heure, de bonne humeur!


Raphael

Sauron

raphael so nicely informed us that:
Un retard is a delay

A retard is un retardé...!

And early it's "de bonne heure" to be exact

There's one funny phrase with that:
De bonne heure, de bonne humeur!


Raphael

indeed. TY


:ninja:

Sev

"Les goldenboys"
"Un Sherlock Holmes"
"Les rubgymen"

lili

Originally posted by raphaelS
Un retard is a delay

A retard is un retardé...!

And early it's "de bonne heure" to be exact

There's one funny phrase with that:
De bonne heure, de bonne humeur!


Raphael

wright:)

and for "le" baise it's "la" baise:D
to much funny when english speakers confuse the gender:)

zynaps

How could confusing "le" with "la" be funny....?

You must have some really bad comedians over in France :P

lili

yes it's funny, i like it when the english speakers confuse it, it's charming:)

commuterised

I really like surtout