Le Mot du Jour

Le Mot du Jour

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  • on s’éclate – Mot du Jour
    we’re having a blast – French expression
    Part of All Levels | French Expressions – Daily Practice
    on s’éclate – we’re ourselves smashing, exploding. In everyday French, on s’éclate means “we’re having a blast”. It’s a familiar expression, yet it’s very common.

    * « J’ai envie de rester un peu plus longtemps car on s’éclate. »
    * “I kind of want to stay a bit longer because we’re having a blast.”

    Tenses and Modes
    présent : je m’éclate, nous nous éclatons
    passé composé : je me suis éclaté.e , nous nous sommes éclatés.es
    futur : je m’éclaterai, nous nous éclaterons
     
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    3 min
  • demain la veille – Mot du Jour
    c’est pas demain la veille – that will be the day – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | Day in and Day Out – Lesson
    c’est pas demain la veille – that’s not tomorrow the day before. c’est pas demain la veille means that something is not likely to happen soon, ‘that will be the day’, ‘don’t hold your breath’.

    * « C’est pas demain la veille que tu me verras manger du pop corn car je suis allergique au maïs. »
    * “Me? Eating pop corn? That will be the day. I don’t think so because I’m allergic to corn.”


     
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    3 min
  • à l’eau de rose – Mot du jour
    sappy, mushy – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | Valentine’s Day
    What does ” à l’eau de rose ” mean? How do you say ‘sappy’ or ‘mushy ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com
    à l’eau de rose – at the water of rose. In everyday French, à l’eau de rose means ‘sappy’, ‘mushy’.

    * « Je suis d’humeur romantique aujourd’hui et je lis un roman à l’eau de rose. »
    * “I’m feeling romantic today and I’m reading a mushy novel.”


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    In love – Amoureux
    C’est quoi, l’amour ?
    Mots d’amour – Liste


     
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    2 min
  • bonnes résolutions – Mot du Jour
    new year’s resolutions – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | French New Year
    les bonnes résolutions – the good resolutions. That’s the way French people talk about new year’s resolutions. les bonnes résolutions means ‘the New Year’s resolutions’.
    The verb used with ‘les bonnes résolutions’ in French is PRENDRE: prendre des bonnes résolutions.

    * « Cette année, mes bonnes résolutions sont de ne pas prendre de bonnes résolutions. Comme ça, je ne serai pas déçue. »
    * “This year, my new year’s resolutions are to not make any new year’s resolutions. That way, I won’t be disappointed.”

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    Thank you for learning French with me since 2007!
     
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    les bonnes résolutions – Step dictation
    Who benefits from New Year’s Resolutions – Shuffle Exercise – Bitesize
     
     
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    2 min
  • les étrennes – Mot du Jour
    New Year’s Gifts – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | The New Year
    les étrennes – New Year’s gift. Traditionally, grand parents, uncles and aunts give little ones leurs étrennes, their New Year’s gift around new year’s day. Depending on the giver’s means and the age of the person who receives les étrennes, it goes from a Euro or two for a little one, to a lot more.
    Étrennes are also given to the local post(wo)man and fire(wo)man, who come to the door in December to sell a calendar, often featuring a kitten or a snowy landscape on the front page. The money goes to their social committee and they go to a restaurant or take a trip together later on in the year.


    * « Je vais voir mes nièces cet aprème et je leur donnerai leurs étrennes. »
    * “I will see my nieces this afternoon and I will give them their New Year’s gifts.”

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    Thank you for learning French with me since 2007!
     
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  • sabrer le champagne – Mot du Jour
    to celebrate with champagne – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | French New Year
    sabrer le Champagne, to saber a bottle of Champagne, to open it with a saber. It’s quite thrilling, and yet, surprisingly easy. All you need is a sharp knife – or a spoon, nobody around you, and you have to want to giggle a lot. Watch the video below and try it yourself. The expression, which dates from the Napoleon era, has evolved to just mean to celebrate with Champagne wine.

    * « Tu as eu ton diplôme, on va sabrer le Champagne ! »
    * “You got your degree, let’s celebrate (let’s saber the Champagne)!”

    French tenses and modes
    présent : je sabre le Champagne, nous sabrons le Champagne
    imparfait : je sabrais le Champagne, nous sabrions le Champagne
    Command forms: Sabre le Champagne ! Sabrez le Champagne !
     
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    Further your French – Allez plus Loin
    Happy New Year in French
    Champagne Bottles – Quiz
    New Year – French Vocabulary and Quiz – Bitesize
    Comment sabrer le Champagne – Exam Prep
    Verbs Tenses and Modes – The Course

    ANNE’S STUDENT SABERS HIS BOTTLE
     
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    2 min
  • la fève – Mot du Jour
    the lucky charm – French expression
    Part of Le Mot du Jour | The New Year
    la fève. une fève is a fava bean, or a broad bean. However LA fève, with the definite article LA means the lucky charm, lucky bean that you find in the galette des rois traditionally on January 6. The tradition is so popular in France that pâtisseries sell the galette des rois throughout the whole month of January. My friend Corinne has her birthday on January 22 and she always has a galette des rois – with la fève – for her birthday cake. La fève is a little figurine made out of ceramics, glass, plastic, or even diamond!

    * « J’ai eu la fève ! Je suis la reine ! »
    * “I got the lucky charm! I’m the queen!”

    Tenses and Modes
    présent: j’ai la fève, nous avons la fève
    passé composé: j’ai eu la fève, nous avons eu la fève
    futur: j’aurai la fève, nous aurons la fève
     
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    tirer les rois – French expression
    King’s Cake Festivities – Le Blogue
    Galette des Rois – January 6 King Cake – Recipe – Bitesize
     
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    2 min
  • à plus d’un titre – Mot du Jour
    in more ways than one – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | French Pronunciation
    français – at more of one title. In everyday French, français means ‘in more than one way’, or ‘in more ways than one’

    * « C’est difficile de s’occuper des enfants à plus d’un titre : il faut avoir de la patience et du temps. »
    * ‘It’s hard to take care of children in more ways than one: you have to have patience and time.’

     
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    plus or pluS – Pronouncing the S or not – Bitesize
    Saying final consonants – Today’s French
     
     
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    3 min
  • Les cotillons – Mot du Jour
    noise-makers and streamers – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | French New Year
    The word cotillon is an old word that used to mean a petticoat, or raggedy skirts poor women would wear in the old days. Today, it’s often plural les cotillons, and it means sets of noise-makers, confetti and streamers you get when you go to a silly party.

    * « Eh, tu prendras les cotillons pour le réveillon du nouvel an? »
    * “Hey, will you get the noise-makers and streamers for the New Year’s party?”

    Note: ‘le réveillon’ is a special word for either Christmas or the New Year’s eve party in France.
     
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    Watch Mike, Anne’s student, saber a bottle of Champagne
    Verbs Tenses and Modes

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    2 min
  • Bonne année – Mot du Jour
    Happy New Year – French expression
    Part of Mots Du Jour | French New Year
    What does the French expression ‘ bonne année ‘ mean? How do you say ‘ happy new year ‘ in French? Listen to Anne.
    bonne année et bonne santé – good year and good health. That’s the way French people say ‘happy New Year’.

    * « Je vous souhaite une bonne année et u ne bonne santé ! »
    * “I wish you a happy new year!”

     
    Une bonne année de mon jardin
     
    Merci à tous de votre fidélité depuis 2007 !
    Je vous souhaite une année FranSationnelle !
    Thank you for learning French with me since 2007!
    I wish you a FrenchSational année !
     
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    sabrer le Champagne – French Expression
    les cotillons – French Expression
    Who benefits from New Year’s Resolutions – Shuffle Exercise – Bitesize
     
     
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    2 min

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