While the vocabulary of the love language is known for being charming and sophisticated, French language is also pretty ridiculous sometimes. Let's celebrate a few of French grammar moments that really made us mort de rire.
French is spoken by an estimated 274 million people in the world, but that doesn't mean it's a walk in the park. French pronunciation has up to 17 vowels depending on the dialect, and most of them are nasal. Many words sound the same but mean completely different things. Everything has a gender. It can take days of examining your relationship to someone before you figure out if it's more polite to call them tu or vous. Oh, and also we must not forget the funny French way of counting! Adding all of this together, French sure seems like the hardest language to learn.
Whether you consider yourself a Francophile, or you've barely mastered bonjour, these struggles will be all too real. To make the French learning process a bit easier we've compiled some really funny jokes about it, so at least you can practice your laughing in French.
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French Cats
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French School Years
They are counting how many years left before they can go to uni and do dru- I mean study hard.
The French Numeric System
But it's pronounced 'kes ke say' a lot of French autograph has silent letters
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French Numerals
Not all french speaking countries count this way. Belgium and Switzerland still use, septante (70), huitante (80) and nonante (90)
Funny French Expressions
"Go on and cry, you'll p**s less". Great! I will use it in italian
It is used in Hungarian language too :)) I remember my gran saying that to me.
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i just learned how to say "my a*s" in french. Thanks boredpanda! *The More You Know! music theme*
"And my a*s is made of chicken" -- I want to hear a reporter say that to Kellyanne when she drops one of her "alternative facts"!
When you talk to someone and he is not listening: "Parle à mon cul ma tête est malade" Talk to my a*s my head is ill (My mother in law uses this a lot :-))
when you didnt close the door: do you live in a barn/horse-barn? when you stand between them and something [like tv :D] you're not transparent! when you lie too obviously: yeah, and i'm a ballerina [though, not sure if this isnt peculiar for my region only] when you are in a bad mood: why aren't you in a gravy/sauce? - I've known this my whole life and until know I've never checked the origin, so here it goes: formerly people thought there are four different liquids in the human body that may affect mood/temper: blood, bile, black bile and phlegm, and also the liquids were called that way: mood or temper. and people believed it so much they started to use sentences like `to be in a good/bad gravy', nowadays only the `bad mood` part remains in polish language, so `to be in a bad gravy/sauce` literally means `to be in a bad mood`:)
accually, some of this are used in Estonia too...the one about glazier and pissing less when crying...
When you are too familiar On n’a pas gardé les cochons ensemble à ce qu’il me semble We have not herd the pigs together I think
Parents in Sweden says a variation of "is your father a glazier?", they say "your dad isn't a glazier" (in swedish "din pappa är ingen glasblåsare" )
"Is your father a glazier" is used also in italy in a similar form (you are not made of glass "non sei di vetro")
Oh my gosh, I just got mind-blown - my grandpa always made me smile when I was sad, saying 'it's okay to cry, you'll pee less', and I never knew where it was from since it wasn't common in our country. Reading this I remembered that he actually KNEW FRENCH (studied in school and in uni, and kept reading French throughout his life) and THIS is where it's from...wow
"Well, eat your hand and save the other one for tomorrow" LMFAO! And, "my a*s is made of Chicken"
"Well, eat your hand and save the other one for tomorrow" BAHAHAHAHA! And, "my a*s is made of Chicken"
ha ha ha My mother said it to me , I said it to my 3 sons and 4 grand daughters. YES I am French born and raised. :)
In our family, we say, "You make a better door than a window." Does anyone else use that, or is it just us?
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I have to say that the majority of those expressions are also used in Portugal... 😄
Come backs (bi-lingual spellcheck can't keep up)!
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Southeastern U.S. mountainous region... walk in on gossiping adults. Who? Who? Answer: Does your foot fit a limb.
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La Petite Mort
Tu vs. Vous
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Actually more like "oil of nut of coco", or else French would be "huile de la noix du coco" whereas it's "huile de noix de coco". Makes sense.
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but then again he spelled it as "handfull". how we know if he meant handful or hand full? it's ok to be confused! ;)
The Law Is The Law
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I'm fairly certain that "breaking my balls" is also an English phrase. Not sure what country it originates from.
Word Similarities
Until you meet "actually" "actuellement" "eventually" et "éventuellement" or dramatic/dramatique which ended with different meanings xD
French Language Jokes
Oui = yes in french + ja = yes in german = oui+ja = ouija. Sorry, mate
Minute Changes
One Big Ooof, Please
Ne vous inquiétez pas, vos expressions idiomatiques sont hilarantes aussi. Do not worry, your idiomatic expressions are hilarious too.
I think it's nice we can make fun of each other. Laughter makes the world a better place!
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And then people complain because Spanish is weird... Yo hablo los tres idiomas; Français est le plus difficile mais je l'aime tout de même. That's all! Gracias :)
The one thing that makes me crazy is the way that in French, nouns have to be preceded by what in English we would translate as "the", that is "le / la". I'm sure someone will point out something like "you don't have to when speaking French casually, or in this dialect" but you know what I mean - generally "proper".
is nobody here going to talk about the significance of the tu in permets-tu? ok then...
When my grandmother was taking french, she only learned written french, so when she moved schools (either changing schools or going to a higher school (middle to high school, etc) her french class was primarily spoken french, so on the first day the teacher would speak rapid fire french, and she couldn’t understand anything. At one point he pointed to her and asked her a question in french, and she’s like, “Uhhh...” and he was like, ”Oui! Un!” (like the number).
Regarding Tu and Vous, that applies to many other languages. I'm not sure if any of us would like to keep it, though. :-)
Je ne savais pas que ce genre de choses existaient xD c'est enrichissant !
French is diverse. In Switzerland and Belgium 97 is 90 + 7 "nonante-sept" not the funny "quatre-vingt dix-sept".
With the current political, global disarray, the timing of this is left to be desired
Hi, french there. I'd like to say all of this is not true, but i would lie x) Really funny, thanks
And in most others. English is the only language I know that doesn't do that and even though I'm very fluent in english it's incredibly hard for me to use "it" for animals, too. That is completely unnatural.
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Hahhaha aww man this made my sides hurt lol. For any of you people wanting to have a laugh at English, Google: An ode to English plural. I promise it'll give you a chuckle.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm French but have been living in English speaking countries for 13 years now and I always think English has weird rules and words. But it's nice to be reminded of the fun side of French as well! PS: I have ALWAYS thought pineapple was such a weird name for a... well... fruit that is not an apple and does not grow on pine trees.
Pineapples don't even grow in trees. They grow on top of weird stalks.
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Only last week I learned the French say Talky Walky instead of Walky Talky. That's just adorable. xD
Sil-vous plaît, put your opinions somewhere else, not on this page, mon ami.
Load More Replies... Ne vous inquiétez pas, vos expressions idiomatiques sont hilarantes aussi. Do not worry, your idiomatic expressions are hilarious too.
I think it's nice we can make fun of each other. Laughter makes the world a better place!
Load More Replies... And then people complain because Spanish is weird... Yo hablo los tres idiomas; Français est le plus difficile mais je l'aime tout de même. That's all! Gracias :)
The one thing that makes me crazy is the way that in French, nouns have to be preceded by what in English we would translate as "the", that is "le / la". I'm sure someone will point out something like "you don't have to when speaking French casually, or in this dialect" but you know what I mean - generally "proper".
is nobody here going to talk about the significance of the tu in permets-tu? ok then...
When my grandmother was taking french, she only learned written french, so when she moved schools (either changing schools or going to a higher school (middle to high school, etc) her french class was primarily spoken french, so on the first day the teacher would speak rapid fire french, and she couldn’t understand anything. At one point he pointed to her and asked her a question in french, and she’s like, “Uhhh...” and he was like, ”Oui! Un!” (like the number).
Regarding Tu and Vous, that applies to many other languages. I'm not sure if any of us would like to keep it, though. :-)
Je ne savais pas que ce genre de choses existaient xD c'est enrichissant !
French is diverse. In Switzerland and Belgium 97 is 90 + 7 "nonante-sept" not the funny "quatre-vingt dix-sept".
With the current political, global disarray, the timing of this is left to be desired
Hi, french there. I'd like to say all of this is not true, but i would lie x) Really funny, thanks
And in most others. English is the only language I know that doesn't do that and even though I'm very fluent in english it's incredibly hard for me to use "it" for animals, too. That is completely unnatural.
Load More Replies... Hahhaha aww man this made my sides hurt lol. For any of you people wanting to have a laugh at English, Google: An ode to English plural. I promise it'll give you a chuckle.
Thanks for the laugh. I'm French but have been living in English speaking countries for 13 years now and I always think English has weird rules and words. But it's nice to be reminded of the fun side of French as well! PS: I have ALWAYS thought pineapple was such a weird name for a... well... fruit that is not an apple and does not grow on pine trees.
Pineapples don't even grow in trees. They grow on top of weird stalks.
Load More Replies... Only last week I learned the French say Talky Walky instead of Walky Talky. That's just adorable. xD
Sil-vous plaît, put your opinions somewhere else, not on this page, mon ami.
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