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The verb marcher is used to describe:
*️⃣ the general action of walking
*️⃣ the way in which a person walks
➖J’aime marcher lentement.
I like to walk slow.
➖Valérie marche dans la rue.
Valerie is walking on the street.
➖Clara marche sur le boulevard.
Clara is walking on the boulevard.
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🇫🇷 Excuse-moi
🇬🇧 Excuse me
DEFINITION
It literally means:
• Excuse → Excuse
• moi→ me
"Excuse-moi" is a common way to express "Excuse me" in French. It's useful to express apologies in informal contexts or when talking to someone you already know.
HOW TO USE
Just like in English, "Excuse-moi" (excuse me) is typically used when apologizing for interrupting a friend or a family member, few examples:
• Excuse-moi, il est quelle heure ?→ Excuse me, what time is it?
• Excuse-moi de te déranger... → Sorry to bother you...
• etc.
But it can also be used to apologize in every other formal situation, to express "I am sorry":
• Tu m'as fait mal ! → You hurt me!
• Excuse-moi, je ne l'ai pas fait exprès → I am sorry, I didn't do it on purpose
Finally, when you need to express apologies in formal contexts, you can use instead: "Excusez-moi" (Excuse me) or “Toutes mes excuses” (All my excuses/apologies)
SYNONYMS
• Excusez-moi → Excuse me (Formal)
• Je m'excuse → I apologize
• Désolé → Sorry
• Pardon → Sorry
• Toutes mes excuses → All my excuses/apologies (Formal)
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🇫🇷 J'ai du pain sur la planche
🇬🇧 I have a lot to do
Literal meaning: I have bread on the board
🗣️ IPA: / ʒe dy pɛ̃ syʁ la plɑ̃ːʃ /
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🇫🇷 Casser la croûte
🇬🇧 To have a snack
*Literal meaning: To break the crust
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SYNONYMS
Neutral
• Ce n’est pas grave. — That doesn’t matter
• C’est rien. — It’s nothing
• C’est pas grand-chose. — It’s no big deal
Informal
• Pas grave. — No harm
• Ça va. — It’s okay
• Tranquille. — All good
• Rien de grave. — Nothing serious
• Pas de souci. — No worries
• Pas de problème. — No problem
• Y’a pas de mal. — No harm done
• Y’a pas mort d’homme. — Nobody died
• Y’a pas de lézard. — No issue (very colloquial)
• C’est pas la mort. — It’s not the end of the world
• C’est pas la fin du monde. — Same idea, slightly stronger
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🇫🇷 C’est pas grave
🇬🇧 It doesn’t matter / No problem
DEFINITION
Literally:
• C’est → it is
• Pas → not
• Grave → serious / severe
“C’est pas grave” is the French equivalent of “No problem”, “Don’t worry about it”, “It’s not serious”, or “That doesn’t matter.”
It’s one of the most common reassuring phrases in French used when you want to play something down, clear up a misunderstanding, or tell someone you’re fine after something goes wrong.
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Check if you have correctly done the previous test.
Here are the correct correspondences of French and English phrases.
1️⃣Je n'y arriverai jamais. (I will never make it.)
2️⃣Je ne peux pas le faire. (I can not do it.)
3️⃣Je veux le faire. (I want to do it.)
4️⃣Comment puis-je le faire? (How can I do it?)
5️⃣Je vais essayer de le faire. ( I will try to do it.)
6️⃣Je peux le faire. ( I can do it.)
7️⃣Je vais le faire. ( I will do it.)
8️⃣Oui. Je l ai fait. (Yes. I did it)
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8 marches de la confiance en soi
8 steps to self-confidence
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If you want to express “trust”, then you will use the following idiom:
*️⃣faire confiance à 🟰 to trust
➖Je fais confiance à Paul.
I trust Paul.
➖Il ne fait pas confiance à ses amis.
He doesn’t trust his friends.
➖Tout le monde fait confiance à Annabelle.
Everyone trust Annabelle.
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«À un de ces jours» = The answer to this question will affect how to say goodbye.
➖If the next time you will see the person is not defined, you can use:
*️⃣ À un de ces quatre → Later (Undefined)
*️⃣ À un de ces jours → Later (Undefined)
*️⃣ À plus tard / À plus / A+ → Later (Undefined)
*️⃣ À la prochaine → Next time (Undefined)
*️⃣ Au revoir / Salut → Goodbye / Bye
➖And here are the ones you can use if you know when you will see the person again:
*️⃣ À tout de suite / À toute / Je reviens tout de suite → 1 to 30 minutes*
*️⃣ À tout à l’heure / À toute / Je reviens → 30 minutes to later today*
*️⃣ À ce soir → This evening
*️⃣ À demain → Tomorrow
*️⃣ À lundi / mardi / mercredi… → Next Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday…
*️⃣ À la semaine prochaine → Next week
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❕ Complete the sentence
Le serveur travaille dans un______ français.
1. Bus
2. Journaliste
3. Restaurant
4. Taxi
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🇫🇷 Merci de tout mon coeur
🇬🇧 Thank you with all my heart
✅ DEFINITION
The literal meaning is:
• Merci → Thanks
• De tout → From all
• Mon coeur→ My heart
✅ HOW TO USE
Imagine someone offers you an amazing gift and your heart is full of gratitude, then instead of a classic "Merci." you can use "Merci de tout mon coeur !" or any other variations you will find in the next section.
All of them are fine with formal contexts, so you can use them in a professional environment too.
✅ SYNONYMS
Powerful gratitude:
• Merci beaucoup ! ("Thanks a lot")
• Merci pour tout ! ("Thanks for everything!")
• Merci bien! ("Thanks a lot!")
• Un grand merci ! ("A big thanks!")
• Mille mercis ! ("Thousand thanks!")
• Merci mille fois ! ("Thanks a thousand times!")
• Merci infiniment ! ("Infinite thanks!")
• Merci du fond du coeur ! ("Thanks from the bottom of my heart!")
✅ Normal gratitude:
• Merci. ("Thanks")
• Je vous remercie. ("Thank you")(Formal and/or plural)
• Cimer. ("Thanks")(Slang)
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🇫🇷 Comment vous appelez-vous ?
🇬🇧 What is your name?
✅ DEFINITION
"Comment vous appelez-vous ?" is a formal way to ask "What's your name?" in French.
✅ HOW TO USE
In French, there are many ways to say "What's your name". So, if someone asks you one of these:
• Comment tu t'appelles ?
• Comment t'appelles tu ?
• Comment vous appelez vous ? (Formal)
• Quel est ton nom ?
• Quel est votre nom ? (Formal)
• C'est quoi ton nom ?
• C'est quoi votre nom ? (Formal)
• Ton nom ?
• Votre nom ? (Formal)
• Nom ?
Then you can answer :
• Jean Dupont → Jean Dupont
• Je m'appelle Jean Dupont → My name is Jean Dupont
• Mon nom est Jean Dupont → My name is Jean Dupont
• Je suis Jean Dupont → I am Jean Dupont
And if instead of "Nom" (Name) we asked you specifically for your "Prénom" (First name):
• Jean → Jean
• Je m'appelle Jean→ My (first) name is Jean
• Mon prénom est Jean→ My first name is Jean
• Je suis Jean → I am Jean
Finally, if we asked you specifically for your "Nom de famille" (Last name / Surname):
• Dupont → Dupont
• Je m'appelle Dupont→ My (last) name is Dupont
• Mon nom de famille est Dupont→ My last name is Dupont
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🇫🇷 J'ai du pain sur la planche
🇬🇧 I have a lot to do
DEFINITION
• Avoir → To have
• Du pain → Some bread
• Sur la planche → On the board
Finally! A French idiom with bread! But where is it coming from and why does it mean: "To have a lot of work"?
Few centuries ago, it meant "To have a lot of resources" and it was a sign of prosperity/capacity to survive.
But weirdly, with time it became a way to say "I have a lot to do". Just like every morning, the baker sees all the uncooked bread on the board as a sign of the hard work he still has to accomplish.
HOW TO USE:
Whenever someone asks you if you are available for something, but you can't because you have a lot of things to do. You can say: "Je ne peux pas, j'ai du pain sur la planche". (I can't, I have some bread on the board)
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HOW TO USE IT
Scenario 1 — Your boss asks if working Sunday is okay:
👉 “Oui, c’est pas grave, je serai là.”
(Yes, don’t worry, I’ll be there.)
(Or the honest alternative: “N’y pense même pas, dimanche je dors.” — Don’t even think about it, I’m sleeping on Sunday.)
Scenario 2 — Someone checks on you after you fall:
👉 “C’est pas grave, je vais bien.”
(It’s not serious / I’m fine.)
Note:
The full, formal version is “Ce n’est pas grave.” But in everyday speech, we drop the ne → “C’est pas grave”. You’ll also hear the ultra-short “Pas grave”, which is casual but very common.
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Today we have a difficult, but very exciting and useful task.
In the post above, you see 8 steps to building self-confidence.
Try to write them in English in the comments!
Good luck! And believe in yourself!
You can do it!!!
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If you want to say that someone trusts me/you/him/her/us/them, then you will use
*️⃣me/te/lui/nous/vous/leur + faire confiance
Please have a look at the following three examples, to better understand how to say “trust” in French with indirect object pronouns.
➖Est-ce que tu me fais confiance ?
Do you trust me?
➖Je te fais confiance.
I trust you.
➖Vous ne devriez pas lui faire confiance.
You shouldn’t trust her.
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Replace the expression «À un de ces jours» in this phrase with a synonym.
«Quand je quitte le bureau, je dis «À un de ces jours».»
(When I leave the office, I say "See you later".)
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