Today’s lesson explores the masculine noun bouchon, which means both cork and traffic jam. I’ve also included embouteillage, which also means traffic jam. bouchon cork, traffic jam Pronunciation: [buʃɔ̃]
French Word of the Day
Today’s lesson explains how to pronounce and use the adjective peuplé, which means “populated” or “densely populated”. We also include an example sentence using la population (population). peuplé populated Pronunciation [pœple]
Today’s lesson focuses on the French informal and somewhat slang interjection “Bah ouai !”, which translates to “yeah”. Bah ouais is essentially slang for oui (yes) and is used for putting emphasis on the obvious. Bah ouais ! Yeah!
Today we’ll have a look at the commonly used French adjective sublime, which translates to magnificent, great, wonderful and sublime. The Modern French sublime comes from sublimis (elevated, high, exalted, sublime) in Latin. sublime magnificent, great, wonderful, sublime Pronunciation [syblim]
Today we’ll focus on the advanced C1/C2 masculine noun apogée, meaning apogee, height, peak, zenith, culmination and hayday. Apogée comes from apogeus in Latin, which in turn comes from ἀπόγειος (apogeios) in Greek, meaning “far from the earth”. apogée apogee, height, peak, zenith, culmination