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How do you say "he's cheap" in French?
It has been stated many times on the Internet that French doesn't have a word for 'cheap', but what do you do when you don't want to say that someone is 'greedy' but still they have problems with money?
For example, there's Bernie Madoff and Gordon…
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How do you translate 'trivia question' into French?
If I say in English "I have a question" that means I need help, but if I have say: "I have a trivia question" that means I'm getting ready to ask a question whose answer I already know and hopefully will somehow be interesting to the listener.
One…
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How do you say "The snake is hissing at the man."?
How do you say "The snake is hissing at the man."?
Is it « Le serpent siffle sur l'homme. » or « Le serpent siffle vers l'homme. » or is a different preposition used?
I have looked at various French dictionaries but I still can't find an…
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French translation of: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
J'ai précédemment lu Man's Search for Meaning de Viktor E. Frankl et cette question m'est restée en tête assez longtemps avant que je la pose.
Comment traduiriez-vous en français : "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how"
Ma tentative est…
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Why does "enceinte" mean both "pregnant" and "speaker"?
I just came across the phrase "enceinte bluetooth", which caught me off-guard, since I had only heard the word "enceinte" to mean "pregnant".
Why do these ideas share a word? Is there some reasonable explanation that would be apparent to a native…
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How do you say “Ours is a bond which cannot be cut.” in French?
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Younger brother: I can’t believe you’re leaving. When will I see you?
Elder brother: Often. Ours is a bond which cannot be cut.
How do you say “Ours is a bond which cannot be cut.” in French?
I want to say the answer is « Le nôtre est un…
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What is the connotation of using "lui" as the subject of a sentence?
Content Warning: Explicit Depiction of Domestic Violence
The following is a passage from a book1 I'm reading:
Le beau-père derrière l’attrape par les cheveux, Roxane devine un cri sous l’archet voluptueux. Roxane, prisonnière de la scène, avale…
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What's the translation of "trust fund kid" in French?
A trust fund kid is a:
a kid [whose] whose parents put money in a trust for their child to use.
The connotation is that the family is rather wealthy.
What's the translation of "trust fund kid" in French?
Google Translate and Linguee didn't help.
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Quel est la différence d'usage entre « nous » et « on » ?
Il me semble qu'en général on utilise on là où en anglais on utiliserait we.
Quelle est la différence entre les deux, on et nous ? Quand doit-on utiliser nous en lieu de on ?
(Répondez en français et en anglais, s'il vous plaît, si vous avez du…
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How to translate "so to speak"?
I would like to know how to translate “so to speak” in French. So far, the only thing I can come up with is disons que.
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How to understand "c'est l'affaire de tous"?
Specifically, what is the meaning of affaire in this sentence?
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How to interpret "faire" + activities
We use "faire" for sports and activities. The exact meaning of these phrases isn't 100% clear to me. When you see a sentence that goes:
Elle fait du judo.
Does this sentence mean only that she practices judo regularly, or is it equally possible…
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Que veut dire « fais pas ton p.d. » ?
J'étais avec mon ami chez lui l'autre jour et il m'a invité à manger au restaurant. Puis je lui ai dit que je ne pouvais pas y aller car je devais manger avec ma copine. Il a répondu avec « fais pas ton p.d. » (qui a fait rire mon autre ami) mais…
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'À avoir eu' : what kind of form is this?
I have seen one form of using avoir, recently, like this: à avoir eu.
I forgot the phrase itself, but, for example in this phrase I just found in Google:
Les jeunes de l’OM sont 2 sur 14 à avoir eu le bac cette année.
What kind of form is it?…
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Orthographe disparate d'« étiquette » et « étiquetage »
Ces deux mots ont la même origine et pourtant il faut deux t à étiquette et un seul à étiquetage.
Qui peut me dire pourquoi ?
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