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2020 dictionary additions

Adulescence: keeping the behaviour of a teen as an adult

Alphabète: who can read and write (from Burundi and Switzerland)

Antispécisme: rejection of the notion of hierarchy between different animal species and of the superiority of the human specie

Apatridie: absence of legal nationality

Bigorexie: unhealthy exercise addiction

Bioplastique: biodegradable plastic

Bore-out: burnout caused by boring jobs/daily tasks/lack of work

Charge mentale: situation where someone, usually a woman, is expected to supervise everything regarding the house and children, generating physical and psychological exhaustion

Cryptomonnaie: virtual payment method that uses cryptography to stay safe and avoids being regulated and controlled by banks

Cyberdjihadisme: using the internet to promote jihadism

Dagobert: sandwich (from Belgium)

Darknet: anonymous network that can only be accessed using special software, configuration, or authorization

Datacratie: political weight of digital data

Dédiésélisation: process of trying to reduce the number of Diesel vehicles

Divulgâcher: to spoil (from Québec)

Emportiérage: action of unintentionally injuring a cyclist by opening a car door without looking (from Québec)

Fachosphère: whole of fascist/far-right political parties

Inclusif/ve, adj: integration a person or group to end their exclusion

Iridescent-e: iridescent

Hackaton: working marathon where a group of people work constantly for 24-48h to find new ideas, usually in digital innovation jobs

Locavorisme: eating only local/seasonal fruits+vegs to protect the planet

Nounoune: a bit naive, stupid (from Québec)

Raguiller: to put back on track (from Switzerland)

Sentience: possession of consciousness or sensory awareness

Slasheur: person, usually young, who works several jobs

Smicardisation: increase of the number of employees paid minimum wage on the long-term (SMIC in French)

Sorteur: party animal (from Belgium)

Suprémacisme: supremacism

Survivalisme: lifestyle of a person or group of people who get ready for a catastrophy on a local or world scale

Taxieur: cab driver (from Algery)

Traceur: satellite geo-locating tracker

Ubériser: making an existing business model obsolete, usually by using a virtual platform

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cooperandbaby_corgi on ig

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hi could you share the names or works of french+ black people pls

Hello,

In music:

Corneille

Oxmo Puccino

Booba

Soprano

Maître Gims

Aya Nakamura

Ninho

Sexion d’assaut

Wejdene

NTM

Hatik

Passi (...)

In literature:

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo + Les Trois Mousquetaires - Alexandre Dumas

Hosties noires + Ethiopiques - Léopold Sédar Senghor

Cahier d'un retour au pays natal 1939 - Aimé Césaire

Le rocher de Tanios - Amin Maalouf

Négritude et négrologues - Stanislas Spero Adotevi

Allah n’est pas obligé - Ahmadou Kourouma

Batouala - René Maran 

Histoire de la littérature négro-africaine - Lilyan Kesteloot

Les enfants du nouveau monde - Assia Djebar

La Grève des bàttu ou les déchets humains - Aminata Sow Fall

Mémoires de porc-épic - Alain Mabanckou

L'intérieur de la nuit - Léonora Miano

Matins noirs - Karfa Diallo

Poètes d'expression française - Léon-Gontran Damas

Le temps du martyre - David Diop 

From la Créolité movement: L'éloge de la Créolité (collective), Texaco - Patrick Chamoiseau, Le nègre et l’amiral - Raphaël Confiant, Le Partage des ancêtres - Jean Bernabé

In movies/shows:

Négritude : Naissance et expansion du concept - Jean-Baptiste and Nathalie Fave (documentary about négritude)

Bande de Filles - Céline Sciamma (and many more movies about growing up in the Parisian suburbs (la banlieue) and experiencing racism)

Intouchables - Olivier Nakache (staring Omar Sy)

30° couleur - Lucien Jean-Baptiste (about a man who forgot his roots)

Validé - Franck Gambastide (about rap music/culture)

Polisse - Maiwenn (staring Joey Starr)

Âme noire - Martine Chartrand (canadian, about black culture/music)

In art:

Etude d’homme (Joseph) - Théodore Géricault 

Joseph le nègre - Adolphe Brune

Le Noir Scipion - Paul Cézanne

Etude de nègre - Théodore Chassériau

Portrait de Laure - Edouard Manet 

Seïd Enkess - Charles Cordier

Portrait d’une négresse (Madeleine) - Marie-Guillemine Benoist

La chasse au nègre - Félix Martin

I’m afraid I wasn’t able to find black artists in painting or sculpture. Also, I’m sorry about using slurs in this last paragraph, just copying the titles.

Hope this helps! x

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The reality about spoken french

We don’t use the negation ne. We say Je sais pas (I don’t know) or On a pas à le faire (we don’t have to do it),

Speaking of which, we prefer using on rather than the pompous nous : On est arrivé-es (we’ve arrived), On y va? (shall we go)

Speaking of which, our questions are often affirmative sentences ending with a question mark (i.e. : a high-pitched tone) : Tu viens? (are you coming), T’en veux un-e? (do you want one).

Speaking of which, we chew words. When followed by words starting with a consonant, personal pronouns can lose their final letter : J’te l’dis! rather than Je te le dis (I’m telling you).

Speaking of which, we’re lazy : Je can be Che (chais pas), Il can be Y (r’garde, y’a un chat!) and grunt : many euh (uh), ah, bah (hum), ben (well), hein (tf?) and rhooo/rhaaa (ffs). We often start sentences with but : Mais tu saoules! (you’re annoying) to express displeasure.

Speaking of which, on top of dropping négations, we drop pronouns : You’re being a pain in my ass should be Tu me fais chier but can be Tu fais chier - maybe to make it universal or dramatic.

Speaking of which, we thrive on sarcasm and irony. To someone who’s babbling, we’ll answer It makes my leg look good.

Speaking of which, we repeat (personal) pronouns at the beginning or end of sentences. We’re likely to ask Qu’est-ce qu’il en dit, lui? and answer Moi, je veux bien (tonic pronouns, careful!).

Speaking of which, we like to use the conditional mode to indicate a wish or hypothesis : lots of Si j’avais su, j’aurais dit oui (had i known, i’d have said yes), J’aimerais bien pouvoir- (I wish I could-), etc.

Speaking of which, we add useless words : Bien (j’irais bien), Petit (un petit peu), Très (très vrai), Trop (je ne sais pas trop), ça (C’est quoi, ça?)…

Speaking of which, let’s stop before you all get disgusted and unfollow me. Remember this is spoken, private french and doesn’t apply to formal situations!

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What to do during lockdown

(and work on your French):

FSL homework

Work on your pronunciation

Read some classics

Read some fanfiction

Listen to podcasts

Listen to TED Talks

Listen to music

Listen to the radio

Watch french movies (detailed, by period and type)

Watch dubbed/subtitled movies: The Simpson, Cesar and Cleopatra, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Red Shoes, La Vérité

Watch cartoons

Watch youtubers

Watch let’s plays: 1 2 3 4 5

Work on some MOOCs

Learn about black holes, Pompei, giant animals, gladiators, the Dreyfus affair, Charles Manson, ants, Leonardo da Vinci, Rome, smelly cheeses, Mozart, the Bermuda triangle, meditation…

Follow french subreddits

Search our social media

Visit the Louvre online

Check my practice tag

And make sure your priorities are in order!

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a fantasy

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you know what’s a good feeling? a real good feeling?

when sunbeams do this.

that is all.

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thoughts

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Negations

A

Au grand jamais - never 

Aucun-e(s) - none : Je n’en ai vu aucun / I have seen none of them  

Aucunement (rare) - by no means 

D

Dégun (southern slang) - no one 

E

En aucun cas - under no circumstance 

En aucune façon - under no circumstance 

En aucune manière - under no circumstance 

En rien - under no circumstance 

G

Goutte - nothing (old, rare) : On n’y voit goutte ici / We can’t see anything

Guère - almost not/nothing (old, rare) : Ce n’est guère plus rapide que le train / This isn’t any faster than the train 

J

Jamais - never : Plus jamais ça! / Never again! 

Jamais au grand jamais - never ever (dramatic)

Jamais de la vie - never ever 

K

Keud (slang), short que ‘que dalle’ (slang for Nothing)

Keutchi (slang) 

N

N’ - ne + vowel : Je ne t’aime pas / I don’t love you 

Nada - nothing at all : - Did you hear about that? - Nada! 

Nan (slang) - nah 

Ne - not : Je ne sais pas / I don’t know 

Ni - neither/nor : Je n’ai vu ni le chien ni le chat depuis que je suis arrivée / I haven’t seen neither the cat nor the dog since I got here 

Niet - nope! (often angry) 

Non - no 

Non plus - (n)either : Je ne sais pas non plus / I don’t know either 

Non plus que

Nul-le - none : Nos jeunes filles à nous sont tellement accomplies, que nulle des filles d’Ève ne peut lutter avec elles ! — (Modeste Mignon, Honoré de Balzac, 1844)

Nulle part - nowhere : Je ne le vois nulle part / I can’t see him anywhere 

Nullement - not in any way 

O

Ô/oh grand jamais : never ever (dramatic)

P

Pas - not : Je ne sais pas / I don’t know 

Pas autrement - not any other way : C’est comme ça et pas autrement

Pas encore - not yet 

Pas forcément - not necessarily 

Pas plus que

Pas un-e - not one : - Did they offer their help? - Pas un! 

Pas un chat - not one cat : Il n’y a pas un chat / There’s no one here 

Personne - nobody : Il n’y a personne ici / There’s no one here 

Plus : no more - Je ne t’aime plus / I don’t love you anymore 

Point - not : Je ne sais point / I don’t know (rare, old)

Q

Que dalle (slang) - nothing : - Did you know about that? - Que dalle! 

Que nenni - no (old) : - Are they here yet? - Que nenni! 

Que tchi (slang) - nothing 

Queude (slang, short for Que dalle) - nothing 

R

Rien - nothing : Je ne vois rien / I don’t see anything 

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Luna is enjoying the sun ☀️🌸🐥

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flower shop moodboard

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a few useful expressions #2

i wouldn’t know : je ne saurais (or pourrais) pas dire

it doesn’t ring a bell : ça ne me dit rien (du tout)

i believe so : je crois/il me semble (bien) que oui

clockwise : dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre

don’t pull out that on me : arrête tes conneries (rude)

when i think about it : quand j’y pense

you shouldn’t have done that : tu n’aurais pas dû faire ça

i don’t want to : je n’ai pas envie

i don’t mind : ça ne me dérange pas/ce n’est pas grave

i have to go : je dois y aller

next week : la semaine prochaine

the following week : la semaine suivante

last week : la semaine dernière

the week before : la semaine précédente 

i can’t remember : je ne me rappelle pas

i’m happy i did : je suis content-e de l’avoir fait

i’m going to bed : je vais me coucher

it doesn’t matter to me : je m’en fiche/m’en fous (rude)

i’m not interested : ça ne m’intéresse pas

i’m not mad : je ne suis pas fâché-e/en colère après toi

you’re so extra : tu en fais trop 

if we’re lucky : avec un peu de chance

how did that happen : comment est-ce que c’est arrivé ?

what do you mean ? : qu’est-ce que tu veux dire ?

what are you doing ? : qu’est-ce que tu fais ?

what did you do ? : qu’est-ce que tu as fait ?

why did you do that : pourquoi as-tu fait ça ? 

a few useful expressions #1

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ten expressions

- le truc, le bidule, le machin : the thing (when you don’t remember what something is called) / truc, bidule, machin-e, machin-chouette (when you don’t remember someone’s name)

- genre : like (j’étais, genre, super énervé)

- y’a pas le feu au lac (the lake isn’t on fire) : there’s no need to hurry

- on a pas élevé les cochons ensemble (we have not raised the pigs together) : you’re being way too familiar

- être présenté-e à : to be introduced to (someone) 

- au jour le jour (as in ‘vivre au jour le jour’) : without worries

- de jour en jour : a bit more every day (ex : je m’améliore de jour en jour = i’m getting a bit better every day).

- avoir le melon (having the melon) : thinking you’re too good for this world (to say with your hands on both sides on your head to mimick swelling)

- con-ne comme un balai/une chaise (as dumb as a broom/a chair) : dumb 

- tu m’en diras tant : dog my cats

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I was soaked and freezing cold by the time we reached this alpine lake, but something about the sound and tranquility kept me completely unbothered.

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i’ve had enough

here are sentences you can use when you are really done with something or someone :

- j’en ai marre (i’m fed up)

- j’en ai assez (i’ve had enough)

- je n’en peux plus (i can’t carry on anymore)

- c’est bon (that’s enough)

- j’en ai plein le dos, le cul, les bottes (my back/my ass is covered in it/my boots are overloaded with it)

- j’en ai ma claque (untranslatable)

- j’en ai ras les baskets, le bol, le cul, la casquette (my trainers, bowl, ass, cap are/is full of it)

- ça me gonfle/gave/saoule (it’s blowing me up/stuffing me/making me drunk)

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Un peu de internet slang

Tqt or tkt = Don’t worry (lol I hate people who say “tkt”)

Mdr = Mort de rire, lol

Jsp = Je sais pas, I don’t know

A tout = (short for “à tout à l’heure”) See ya

Ciao = Like the Italian way, bye

Ptdr = Pété de rire, lmao