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Comparing Lisa LeBlanc’s lyrics to Québécois French (#805)
(official site) César asks if I can write a little about Acadian French and Chiac on OffQc. I haven’t spent enough time around speakers of Acadian French to be able to do here what I do with Québécois...
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15 examples of the informal verb FEELER used in Québécois French (#806)
«Tu files pas, tu m’appelles, OK?» [heard on the TV show 19-2]In today’s entry, let’s focus our attention on the informal verb feeler heard in Québécois French. We’ve seen the verb feeler come up in a...
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Understand how SUR LES can contract in Québécois French (#807)
We’ve seen in past entries how sur le and sur la have a tendency of contracting during everyday conversations in French. sur le can become su’l sur la can become s’a This means you might hear, for...
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5 usages unique to Québécois French with lots of examples (#808)
stop complaining I have a little birdie who whispers ideas to me for OffQc to keep me inspired (thanks, Maude!), so today I’m going to pick five of those ideas for us to take a look at: 1. sérieux 2....
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Does Québécois French risk getting trout pout? (#809)
This won’t hurt a bit. The people over at the Office québécois de la langue française (OQLF) would tut-tut me if they read this, but you can in fact learn some colloquial Québécois French (you know,...
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Using the Québécois C’EST LE FUN in a way you might not know (#810)
We’ve seen before that the expression c’est le fun can mean “it’s fun” in Québécois French. C’est le fun can mean something else, though. Can you guess what it means in these sentences? C’est le fun de...
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Du pas pire fun — WTF? (#811)
On risque d’avoir du pas pire fun! I really like the wording that Lisa LeBlanc used in her Facebook update: On risque d’avoir du pas pire fun! We just might have some not-bad fun! If this sentence...
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A use of the expression PAS CAPABLE you [maybe] didn’t know (#812)
Pus capab’, moé ! Moi là, l’hiver, pas capable! Literal translation: Personally, the winter, not capable! Huh?? Not capable of what? Not capable of standing the winter, of course! Moi là, l’hiver, pas...
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CRINQUÉ: A Québécois French adjective appearing on OffQc for the first time...
Here’s an adjective we haven’t seen yet on OffQc: crinqué _ _ _ Maude Schiltz uses the adjective crinqué in her book Ah shit, j’ai pogné le cancer (tome 1). Interestingly, she gave two different...
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7 Facebook comments in French deciphered (#814)
You know those sponsored ads that show up in your Facebook feed (do I even need to ask)? I’ve pulled seven comments left on those ads by other people for us to look at. Might as well turn those ads...
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2 photos from Montréal with the words POUCHE-POUCHE and AUTOPHOTO (#815)
I saw this first image — an ad from the SAQ — when walking past a bus shelter. Click on the image to see the full size. The text in the ad reads: Aspergez-vous de bruine en pouche-pouche ou passez à la...
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Go eat a load of shit and bon appétit! (#816)
It’s the truth; a “char de marde” has nothing to do with Arctic char. During your ventures into Québécois French, it’s only a matter time before you hear one francophone tell another to go eat un char...
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Learn French vocab from a funny text message exchange (#817)
This text message exchange comes from the Les Parent Facebook page. Les Parent is a comedy from Québec. The name of the show really is Les Parent and not Les Parents, because Parent is a surname, and...
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3 ways you can use the French verb VIRER (#818)
Let’s look at these three usages of the verb virer: virer fou virer au vert virer à droite In entry #808, we saw the expression virer fou/virer folle, or “to go crazy.” Virer means “to become” or “to...
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Drunk, crazy, flipped over… say it all using one verb in French (#819)
Yesterday we looked at three uses of the French verb virer: virer fou virer au vert virer à droite Tu dois faire quelque chose, sinon tu vas virer folle. You have to do something, otherwise you’ll go...
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Bande de cons! Unflattering Facebook comments written in French (#820)
I’m always on the lookout for good sources of vocab and expressions for you to learn, and I’ve found a pretty good one for learning how people complain and insult others in French: Comments that appear...
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French vocab to learn from a quote about touch-ups to a car (#821)
Below is a random sentence that came up in a Google search. The sentence was posted in an online car forum. The guy who wrote this sentence was looking for someone who could do touch-ups (faire des...
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Is the glass half empty or half full? (#822)
Yesterday morning was warm in Montréal, but it was only partly sunny because of the clouds. We can say that it was partiellement ensoleillé. In the afternoon though, the sun disappeared entirely behind...
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5 new examples of the verb POGNER used in Québécois French (#823)
C’est sûr que tu vas pogner un ticket. I’m of the opinion that we can never have enough examples of the informal verb pogner on OffQc. So here are five more! Remember, the sense behind pogner is one of...
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Stop acting like a sissy! Telling people to stop doing something in French...
A good expression to learn is arrête donc de. With this expression, you can tell people to stop doing whatever it is that’s bothering you. Google is our friend again. I typed arrête donc de to find 10...
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