Learn how to use puisque in French to say “since” and “as” with clear, real-life examples. Includes simple explanations and native audio to help you use it naturally in conversation.
French is full of lots of fun and colorful expressions. Today we’ll look at one of my all time favorites: Pisser dans un violon (literal translation: “to piss in a violin”). Meanings of this expression mean “to waste your breath” and “to talk to a wall”.
In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at the adjective sûr, meaning sure, certain and safe. This word can cause some confusion because it changes to the preposition sur (on, on top of) when the -u is written without the circumflex accent. sûr(e) sure, certain, safe
Today we’ll focus on a simple yet extremely useful French expression: “avoir du mal à”, which means to have difficulty/trouble or to find it hard to do something.
Level A2/B2 (Upper beginner, lower intermediate) The French word of the day is joindre (A2/B1), meaning ‘to join’. This verb can cause a lot of confusion as joindre means ‘to join together’ or ‘to reach’ while the reflexive form se joindre à means to join a person or group of people. We’ll also cover se …
