This is an early-1990s French Canadian commercial for a cleaning product called Hetel Plus. The commercial continuously repeats “plus propre, plus vite”, cleaner, faster. Lots of cleaning vocabulary here: essuyer (to wipe), la tache (stain), rincer (to rinse) and much more.
Video text and translation
- Plus propre, plus vite. C’est Hertel Plus.
Cleaner, faster. It’s Hertel Plus. - Pour les taches de doigts de la p’tite Julie.
For the stains on the fingers of little Julie. - Vaporisez et essuyez.
Spray and wipe. - Hertel Plus est puissant et pas besoin de rincer.
Hertel Plus is powerful and there’s no need to rinse. - Avec Hertel Plus, c’est plus propre plus vite, et biodégradable comme tous les produits RTR.
With Hertel Plus it’s cleaner, faster and biodegradable like all the RTR products. - Plus propre, plus vite. C’est Hertel Plus.
It’s cleaner and faster. It’s Hertel Plus. - Pour la saleté sur le barbecue, vaporisez et essuyez.
For dirtiness on the barbecue, spray and wipe. - Hertel Plus veille à vous des pires travaux et pas besoin de rincer.
Hertel Plus takes care of the worst jobs and no need to rinse. - Avec Hertel Plus, c’est plus propre plus vite.
With Hertel Plus, it’s cleaner and faster. - Maintenant avec 200 millilitre en prime.
Now with a bonus of 200 milliliters.
Vocabulary and grammar of interest
- Propre (adj). means clean. When placed before a noun it means my own, e.g. ma propre voiture – my own car.
- Une tache means a stain. With a circumflex accent, tâche (f.) means chore or task.
- Puissant (adj) means powerful, related to the verb pouvoir (can, able)
- Pas besoin de – This is short for il n’y pas besoin de, meaning there’s no need to.
- la saleté – noun for dirtiness, related to the adjective sale (dirty) and verb salir (to make dirty).
- essuyer – verb: to wipe, dry. Related to les essuie-glaces, windshield wipers.
- veiller à faire quelque chose (verb): to make sure to do something, to be careful or ensure to do. This verb has lots of meanings.
- En prime – means as a bonus or more.
