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 …
Today we’ll have a look at the slang noun truc. In French, truc is slang for “thing” and can also translate to “thingumajig” or “trick” (as in magic). truc thing (slang)
