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Favourite French words

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  • 30-03-2003 1:12am
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    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Anticonstitutionnellement - apparently it's the longest word in French :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


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


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭Samson


    Baise.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭phreak


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭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 :)

    It is what it's.



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    hiboux, blague, mouiller.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


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


    my american friend like to say "vachement"


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭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? :confused:


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭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".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


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


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Ca chlingue! ? not sure how to spell it.

    Ouf malade

    Fada!

    Fan de chichoune!

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


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


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

    Ok, I believe you :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭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?"

    :p


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Sales réligieuses, va! :D

    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


    putréfaction


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    bachi-bouzouk
    That might be Belgian though :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 745 ✭✭✭misswex


    Merde :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,130 ✭✭✭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...


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    soupçon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


    tatillon


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,216 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,564 ✭✭✭Typedef


    How about ?

    Céline


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 601 ✭✭✭honeymonster


    bibliothèque and the French word for Stephen something like Etiene


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭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 !


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    putain la vache :D
    I use it all the time


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  • Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭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? :confused:


    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 :confused:

    Raphael


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