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Rouler dans la farine (to roll in flour) : to fool someone

Tomber dans les pommes (to fall in the apples) : to faint

C’est du gâteau (it’s cake) : it’s easy

Se mêler de ses oignons (to meddle with one’s onions) : to care about one’s own business - and not anyone else’s

Avoir la pêche (to have the peach) : to be cheerful, lively

Raconter des salades (to tell salads) : to tell lies

Bête comme chou (dumb as cabbage) : very simple, obvious

Cracher dans la soupe (to spit in the soup) : to be ungrateful

Jus de chaussette (sock juice) : bad, tasteless coffee

Ne pas mâcher ses mots (to not chew one’s words) : to speak frankly

2018. 11.

Extiendes tu mano por el pan y coges una piedra. Tocas piedra, sientes el sudor que corre por tu cuerpo. El sudor que corre, el día se vuelve negro, es un momento que no se mueve. Cómo desperdicié y agoté mi corazón. Algo más oscuro parece correr por el cuerpo del santo en la fotografía, pero es sólo un efecto del filtro de luz que utilizábamos en la meseta. No hay nada más oscuro (que la segunda muerte).

- Tipos de agua. El camino de Santiago. Anne Carson. Vaso Roto Ediciones. Traducción: sara Cantú Pérez de Salazar

Thai has its own numerals. Pictured (and audio) above is 1-9, followed by 0.

Vergangenheit (f) - past  Gegenwart (f) - present Zukunft (f) - future 

Zeit (f) - time Zeitreise (f) - time travel Wurmloch (n) - wormhole schwarzes Loch (n) - black hole Maschine (f) - machine Zeitmaschine (f) - time machine

Kind(-er) (n) - child(-ren)  Elternteil (m) - parent Fremder (m) - stranger Polizei (f) - police

Selbstmord (m) - suicide Brief (m) - letter Höhle (f) - cave Wald (m) - forest Atomkraftwerk (n) - nuclear power plant

vermisst [inf. vermissen] - missing [inf. to miss]  verschwinden - to disappear

zweitausendneunzehn - 2019 neunzehnhundertsechsundachtzig - 1986 neunzehnhundertdreiundfünfzig - 1953

Acquérir (to acquire) → acquis

Apprendre (to learn) → appris

Atteindre (to attain) → atteint

Asseoir (to sit) → assis

Avoir (to have) → eu

Boire (to drink) → bu

Comprendre (to understand) → compris

Conduire (to drive) → conduit

Connaitre (to know) → connu

Construire (to build) → construit

Courir (to run) → couru

Couvrir (to cover) → couvert

Craindre (to fear) → craint

Croire (to believe) → cru

Décevoir (to deceive; to disappoint) → déçu

Découvrir (to discover) → découvert

Devoir (to have to) → dû

Dire (to say) → dit

Écrire (to write) → écrit

Etre (to be) → été

Faire (to do; to make) → fait

Falloir (to have to) → fallu

Instruire (to instruct) → instruit

Joindre (to join; to affix) → joint

Lire (to read) → lu

Mettre (to put) → mis

Mourir (to die) → mort

Naître (to be born) → né

Obtenir (to obtain) → obtenu

Offrir (to offer) → offert

Ouvrir (to open) → ouvert

Peindre (to paint) → peint

Permettre (to allow; to permit) → permis

Plaire (to please) → plu

Pleuvoir (to rain) → plu

Prendre (to take) → pris

Produire (to produce) → produit

Pouvoir (to be able to) → pu

Recevoir (to receive) → reçu

Réduire (to reduce) → réduit

Rire (to laugh) → ri

Savoir (to know) → su

Souffrir (to suffer) → souffert

Suivre (to follow) → suivi

Tenir (to hold) → tenu

Vivre (to live) → vécu

Valoir (to be worth) → valu

Voir (to see) → vu

Vouloir (to want) → voulu

А какой петух ты сегодня? Which rooster are you today?

дерзкий- cheeky, daring, audacious

игривый- playful

загадочный- mysterious

грустный- sad

решительный- decisive, determined

серьёзный- serious

яркий- bright

удивлённый- surprised

опасный- dangerous

лихой- sinister, bold, daring, dashing, gallant, nimble, smart, or criminal (thanks Russian)

дикий- wild, odd, bizarre, outrageous

The character 人 (rén) means person.

So, what could 从 (cóng) mean?

You see, there are two people, one is following the other and yes! This character means "to follow".

Next character.

众 (zhòng). You see, there are three people, so what could this mean?

It means "crowd"!

Last word.

从众 (cóng zhòng). So, we know that the first character means follow and the second means crowd. Mh... Follow crowd... What could this mean?

It means conformity.