Today’s lesson examines the commonly used expression pas de souci, which means no worries, no sweat and no problem.
pas de souci – [pa də susi]
no worries
Expression origin
The Modern French masculine noun souci (worry) and verb soucier (to be worried) come from sollicitare (to worry) in Latin. In conversational French the de is often glided over: pas (de) souci.
Example sentences
In French, the noun devoir means duty or homework while devoir as a verb means must or have to.
Je t’aiderai avec tes devoirs, pas de souci.
No worries, I’ll help you with your homework.
Pas de souci combines with il y a (there is) in the negation to form: Il n’y a pas de souci (no problem, no worries).
Il n’y a pas de souci, j’y serai demain matin.
No problem. I’ll be there tomorrow morning.
The expression se faire du souci means “to worry about” or “to fret”.
Étienne se fait du souci pour rien.
Etienne is worried for nothing.
Related lessons
- 7 ways to say “no problem”
- Negation rules
- Demain – tomorrow
- Rien – nothing, anything
- Il y a – there is, there are, ago
- Future tense
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