French Pedigree Dog Food Commercial

Great recent French commercial for Pedigree Dog food. This commercial is packed with lots of fun adjectives describing different dog personalities. The commercial also does a lot with the word tous (everybody or all). Frenchtoday.com has a wonderful blog post explaining the word tous.

commercial text and translation

Tous les chiens, les frileux, les audacieux, les grands sportifs, les grands gourmands, les touts foux, les touts calmes…
All dogs, the faint-heated, the bold, big athletes, big eaters, the crazy ones, the calm ones…
Tous les chiens méritent une alimentation de qualité.
All dogs deserve quality nutrition.
Aujourd’hui Pedigree met la nutrition professionnelle à la portée de tous avec ses nouvelles croquettes Pedigree Vital Protection.
Today Pedigree is putting professional nutrition within everybody’s reach with its new Pedigree Vital Protection dry food.
Nouveau Pedigree Vital Protection, tous les chiens méritent une nutrition professionnelle.
New Pedigree Vital Protection, all dogs deserve professional nutrition.

vocabulary and grammar of intesret

Tous les chiens. This is tous les + noun, meaning all of a specific noun. Tous les garçons – all the boys, or simply all boys.
frileux (adj.) – translates to fearful, timid, unadventurous, timorous, faint-hearted.
audacieux (adj). – translates to daring, bold, audacious.
les grands sportifs – here grand (adj.) doesn’t mean big in its traditional sense. This is big as in “a big eater”.
gourmand (adj.) – translates to big eater, likes to eat a lot or greedy for food.
tout fou (adj.) – This means crazy but with a strong emphasis. Il est tout fou! He’s nuts!
mérieter (v.) – means to deserve. It’s followed by de. Nous méritons de gagner. We deserve to win.
alimentation (n.f.) – translates to diet, nutrition, eating and drinking, feeding, food and groceries.
à la portée de quelqu’un – expression meaning within somebody’s reach or grasp.
à la portée de tous – tous here means everybody or all (in this case, all dogs). Pronounce the -s.
croquettes (n.f.) – noun for dog or cat biscuit or dried dog or cat food.

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