Peabrain

For someone called "mashed potatoes eater," I imagine you've already heard the exclamation "Ah, purée!", a nicer, albeit slightly old-fashioned way of expressing one's irritation than by having recourse to the other p word.

dmu

Thanks to EuroTrash on another thread, I've discovered that "go figure" is the current English equivalent of "Va savoir, Charles...".

howiet01

I hear people at the creche say ' comment c'est passé la journee?' when they collect their children. Can someone explain the 'c'est' part as I'm confused.

MashedPotatoesEater

Comment s'est passé la journée means how was your day. The verb is "se passer" because it is a pronominal verb ("se" ) you use the auxiliary "être" in the past tense.

MashedPotatoesEater

Sorry the correct form should be comment s'est passée la journée. As the verb agrees with the noun la journée

howiet01

Thanks for the reply.

How would I say 'how was his day?' as in how was my son in creche today?

MashedPotatoesEater

Comment s'est passée sa journée ?

howiet01

Thanks

Blackladder

said by my neighbour, originally from Franche Comté, when his wife spilt some sangria down her White T shirt 'Ah mon dieu, tu es insortable' meaning 'can't take you anywhere'

dmu

Yes, I often tell my OH "tu n'es pas sortable", which comes to the same thing!

Aggie ann

petits appareils——small appliances
Je t'aime--I　ｌｏｖｅ　ｙｏｕ

Tweedpipe

Whoa!
I do hope you were not with a bunch of Frenchman when you mentioned, "petits appareils". Said in the wrong place at the wrong time they certainly wouldn't have loved you for that.......
(For the uninitiated, it also means, small 'tackle').

And don't ask me how I know!

dmu

I've just just discovered the expression "ne te formalise pas", meaning "don't be offended".

Nora77

It could be different meaning as well, I got very confused few times using this

dmu

what's the other meaning? The first time I heard the reflexive verb in the context of taking offence, was when a French friend told me not to (take offence).
While I'm at it, the expressions "je suis à la bourre" and "je me suis gouré(e)" shouldn't be muddled up.
The first means "I'm late", the second "I boobed/made a mistake"