Langblr stuff

Avoir- expressions

Avoir quelqu’un à l’oeil - keeping an eye on someone

Avoir bon coeur - being good-hearted

Avoir bon dos - being a good excuse

Avoir quelqu’un dans le nez - being mad at someone

Avoir d’autres chats à fouetter - having better things to do

Avoir de la merde dans les yeux - not seeing the obvious (rude)

Avoir de la veine - being lucky

Avoir des cornes - being cheated on

Avoir des couilles - being brave (rude)

Avoir des étoiles dans les yeux - being amazed

avoir des fourmis - having pins and needles

Avoir des yeux derrière la tête - being able to see abs everything

Avoir du bol/du pot - being lucky

Avoir du chien - looking good (old)

Avoir du cran - being brave

Avoir du nez - having a good intuition

Avoir du temps à perdre - having time to waste

Avoir été bercé trop près du mur - being another level of dumb

Avoir faim - being hungry

Avoir la chair de poule - having goosebumps

Avoir la conscience tranquille - having a clear conscience

Avoir la gueule de bois - being hangover

Avoir la langue bien pendue - being chatty

Avoir la main - being the one who plays/leads (in games, usually)

Avoir la main verte - being a good gardener

Avoir la patate/la pêche - being smiley, happy

Avoir la peau dure - being hard to break

Avoir la peur au ventre - being super scared

Avoir la puce à l’oreille - having suspicions

Avoir le bras long - having a lot of influence

Avoir le cafard - feeling blue

Avoir le cœur gros - feeling sad

Avoir le compas dans l’œil - having an accurate eye (measurements)

Avoir le feu au cul - being horny

Avoir le sang chaud - being hot-blooded

Avoir le vent en poupe - being successful

Avoir les dents du fond qui baignent - being drunk

Avoir les dents longues - being overly ambitious

Avoir les foies - being scared (old)

Avoir les jetons - being scared

Avoir les mains liées - having one’s hands tied

Avoir les oreilles bouchées - having blocked ears

Avoir les oreilles qui saignent - having bleeding ears after hearing something awful

Avoir les oreilles qui sifflent - having ringing ears

Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre - taking too much food

Avoir les yeux qui saignent - having bleeding eyes after (…)

Avoir l’estomac dans les talons - being super hungry

Avoir l’œil - having a good eye (for outfits, flowers, etc)

Avoir mal aux cheveux - being in pain after a night of drinking

Avoir mangé du lion - being super energetic

Avoir soif - being thirsty

Avoir toute sa tête - being mentally heathly

Avoir un balai dans le cul - being uptight

Avoir un chat dans la gorge - having a frog in the throat

Avoir un cœur d’artichaut - falling in love easily

Avoir un coup de foudre - falling in love at first sight

Avoir un mal de chien - having a hard time doing something

Avoir un œil qui dit merde à l’autre - squinting (rude)

Avoir un oursin dans sa poche - being miser

Avoir un poil dans la main - being lazy

Avoir un polichinelle dans le tiroir - being pregnant

Avoir une araignée dans le plafond - being nutty

Avoir une brioche au four - being pregnant

Avoir une case en moins - having a screw loose

Avoir une cervelle de moineau - forgetting things easily

Avoir une dent contre quelqu’un - being mad at someone

Avoir une faim de loup - being super hungry

Avoir une mémoire d’éléphant - having a great memory

Avoir une peur bleue - being super scared

En avoir plein le cul - being super annoyed (rude)

Ne pas avoir gardé les cochons ensemble - way to tell someone who’s being overfriendly or touchy to back off

Ne pas avoir les yeux en face des trous - being too tired to think straight

Le calendrier

Les jours

Lundi, from the old French Lunsdi/the Latin Dies lunae, the day of the moon

Mardi, from the Latin Martis dies, the day of Mars, god of war

Mercredi, from the Latin Mercurii dies, the day of Mercury, god of merchants

Jeudi, from the Latin Jovis dies, the day of Jupiter, the king of gods

Vendredi, from the Latin Veneris dies, the day of Venus, goddess of beauty and love

Samedi, from the Latin Sambati dies, the day of the Sabbath

Dimanche, from the old French dïenenche/the Latin Dies Dominicus, the day of the Lord

Les mois

Janvier, from Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and endings

Février, from the Latin word februarius - purification

Mars (\maʁs\, not /ˈmaʁz/), from Mars, the Roman god of war

Avril, from the Latin word aprilis - opening (of buds)

Mai, from Maius/Maia, the Roman goddess of fertility and growth

Juin \ʒɥɛ̃\, from Junius, the name of the Roman goddess Juno

Juillet (\ʒɥi.jɛ\), from Julius, the name of the Roman general Julius Caesar

Août (\ut\ or \a.ut\), from Augustus, the name of the first Roman emperor

Septembre, from the Latin word september - seventh

Octobre, from the Latin word october - eighth

Novembre, from the Latin word november - ninth

Décembre, from the Latin word december - tenth

Les saisons

L'hiver, from the Old French word hivern + the Latin word hibernus - winter

Le printemps, from the Latin word primus - first

L'été, from the Latin word aestas - summer

L'automne, from the Latin word autumnus - autumn

NB: French days, months and seasons are all masculine and not capitalized.

Movie: Peau d’âne - Jacques Demy, 1970

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

clockworktardis

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

kittydesade

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

wyvyrn

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

bard-llama

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

2411 files and 819 subfolders

flootzavut

Holy shit. OP you are a wonderful human being.

surohsopsisofclouds

O.O Linguistic Holy Grail…

alextheweird

Never not reblog this

lafilledanslaville

💼 vocabulaire métier - job vocabulary

(mf) - masculine & feminine noun

(m) - masculine noun

(f) - feminine noun

acteur (m), actrice (f) - actor, actress

architecte (mf) - architect

artiste (mf) - artist

avocat (m), avocate (f) - lawyer

banquier (m), banquière (f) - banker

boulanger (m), boulangère (f) - baker

charpentier (m), charpentière (f) - carpenter

caissier (m), caissière (f) - cashier

chef (m), cheffe (f) - chef/cook

comptable (mf) - accountant

chanteur (m), chanteuse (f) - singer

entraîneur (m), entraîneuse (f) - trainer/coach

électricien (m), électricienne (f) - electrician

écrivain (m), écrivaine (f) - writer/author

dentiste (mf) - dentist

ingénieur (m), ingénieure (f) - engineer

fermier (m), fermière (f) - farmer

pêcheur (m), pêcheuse (f) - fisherman

jardinier (m), jardinière (f) - garderner

juge (mf) - judge

médecin (m) / docteur (m) - doctor

mécanicien (m), mécanicienne (f) - mechanic

musicien (m), musicienne (f) - musician

serveur (m), serveuse (f) - waiter, waitress

infirmier (m), infirmière (f) - nurse

peintre (mf) - painter

pharmacien (m), pharmacienne (f) - pharamacist

photographe (mf) - photographer

pompier (m), pompière (f) - firefighter

pilote (mf) - pilot

plombier (m), plombière (f) - plumber

policier (m), policière (f) - police officer

professeur (m), professeure (f) - teacher

thérapeute (mf) - therapist

vétérinaire (mf) - veterinarian

spotted on twitter

Do you know why we don’t pay the water bill in a haunted house?

Because the water ghost will pay

(pronounce this out loud)

I DON’T GET IT

Hello what common mistakes would you say english speakers make when speaking french?

Hullo, roughly:

Jumping over Rs because they’re too hard to pronounce (Me’ci)

Mixing up ER and RE (in words like Centre, Théâtre, etc)

Messing up the gender of nouns

Forgetting to make adjectives agree (Une petit fille)

Forgetting about past participles and putting an infinitive as the second element when using perfect (J’ai voir VS J’ai vu)

Forgetting about determiners, especially Des (J’ai mangé pain)

Using a tonic pronoun instead of an object pronoun and putting it after the verb like in English (J’aime toi VS Je t’aime)

Putting adjectives in the wrong place (J’ai les verts yeux)

Keeping their original accent when pronouncing transparent or borrowed words (Utiliser, Burger, Invisible, etc)

Hope this helps! x

Common native mistakes

Comme même instead of Quand même

Using the infinitive instead of a past participle when building the perfect - J’ai manger or imperfect tense - Je mangé instead of J’ai mangé

Messing up verbs - Je buvrais instead of Je boirais*

Possessive Sa instead of demonstrative Ça

Treating Ces, Ses, C’est like synonyms

Writing Acceuil instead of Accueil

Mixing up the gender of Testicule, Pétale, Éloge…

Adding -s to the singular first person to verbs that end with a vowel in the imperative tense - Écoutes!

Adding -s to the singular first person in the present tense - J’arrives

Common mistakes from foreigners

*There’s a reason for that. Certain verbs, like Être, Avoir, Faire, Aller, Vouloir…, have had two bases since the Middle Age. People then expect other verbs to be irregular when they’re not and destroy them (like Boire here).

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ending a story in other languages

kurdish: “my story went to other homes, god bless the mothers and fathers of its listeners” (Çîroka min çû diyaran, rehmet li dê û bavê guhdaran.)

greek: “and they lived well, and we lived better” (και ζήσανε αυτοί καλά και εμείς καλύτερα)

afrikaans: “whistle whistle, the story is done” (fluit fluit, die storie is uit)

goemai: “my tale has finished, (it) has returned to go (and) come home.” (tamtis noe lat / dok ba muaan yi wa)

amharic: “return my story and feed me bread” (ተረቴን መልሱ አፌን በዳቦ አብሱ::)

bengali: “my story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat” (aamaar kothati furolo; Notey gaachhti murolo) *means something is irreversibly ended because goats eats herbs from the root

norwegian: “snip snap snout, the tale is finished” (snipp snapp snute, så er eventyret ute”

polish: “and i was there [at the wedding] too, and drank mead and wine.” (a ja tam byłem, miód i wino piłem.)

georgian: “disaster there, feast here… bran there, flour here…” (ჭირი – იქა, ლხინი – აქა, ქატო – იქა, ფქვილი – აქა)

hungarian: “this is the end, run away with it” (itt a vége, fuss el véle)

turkish: “lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for our story’s heroes, one for the person who told their tale, and one for those who listened and promise to share. And with that, they all achieved their hearts’ desires. Let us now step up and settle into their thrones.” (Gökten üç elma düşmüş; biri onların, biri anlatanın, diğeri de dinleyenlerin başına. Onlar ermiş muradına, biz çıkalım kerevetine.)

Latin?

Hiii!! I hope you're having a good day today!

Hiiii! Thank you :)

May I offer you a Latin cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit

volumina-vetustiora

sorry if I'm hijacking this but

ya want Latin song recs? Latin translations of existing songs are some of my favourite things ever, but if you want songs composed specifically with Latin lyrics:

Renaissance composers like Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Gregorio Allegri have written some incredibly beautiful hymns, setting words from the Latin Vulgate Bible to music - I love their stuff, and I'm saying this as someone who is not religious at all - I particularly recommend Palestrina's Sicut Cervus and Alma Redemptoris Mater, and Allegri's Miserere (there are of course a ridiculously huge number of Latin hymns out there, I'm just talking about the ones I like the most)

I also can't not mention the Carmina Burana, a set of Medieval poems (not hymns at all, and some of them quite dirty) written in Latin, including some Medieval German and French, which were set to music by Karl Orff in the 1930s

there are also modern composers of choral hymns in Latin, such as Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, and many others - I recommend Gjeilo's Northern Lights and Ubi Caritas, Whitacre's Lux Aurumque, and Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium

finally, did you know that John Linnell of the rock band They Might Be Gaints has released an album of songs with original Latin lyrics called Roman Songs? - his accent in Latin is, well, very American, but the idea and execution are very good

#latin

Historical youtubers

Les revues du monde by Charlie Danger

Nota bene by Ben

C’est une autre histoire by Manon Bril

Axolot by Patrick Baud

Horror humanum est by Cédric Villain

#german #german vocabulary #vocabulary

crazy-languages

I found this online and I love it.

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

clockworktardis

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.