It surely comes as no surprise to you — Montréal gets a lot of snow in the winter: de la marde blanche (the white shit)!
If you drive a car, you’ll need a shovel, une pelle, to dig yourself out after a snowfall, une bordée de neige.
If you have a driveway, you’ll need to shovel that too, pelleter l’entrée. To pronounce pelleter, say it with two syllables: pelter. You can also say pelleter la neige.
When snow is fresh, it looks clean. But when it begins to melt on the roads, it turns into slush, de la slush (de la sloche).
At street corners in downtown Montréal, you’ll often need to jump across a pool of water.
If you get your feet wet in the slush and water, you’re going to be pretty miserable.
Be sure to choose a good pair of winter boots for walking around in Montréal, choisir une bonne paire de bottes d’hiver.
If you’re new to Montréal, walking on slippery sidewalks requires practice. You’ll need those good boots to avoid breaking your back by falling down on the ice, se péter le dos en pognant une débarque sur la glace!
