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thank you everyone for helping me reach another thousand! 🙌🏻✨ since i haven’t posted in a while, i made these to remind you to stay positive and motivated that you can do anything! i believe in you gal pals!!!

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I found some French sayings associated with the Winter as we are now in December.

S’emmitoufler - to wrap up warmly  

Un coeur de glace - a heart of ice (someone who has no feelings)

Il est givré - he is frosted (he’s gone completely mad)

Un froid de diable - devil’s cold (it’s extremely cold)

Il fait un froid de canard - It’s duck cold (again, this means it’s extremely cold)

Faire la boule de neige - this can be used to express how you’ve made a problem worse i.e the snowball effect

So as you may or may not know already, I’m in Belgium at the moment (and will be staying there for a month), and I’ve been a bit confused about their French.

I mean, I knew there was an accent, especially in Brussels, and that they used some different words and phrases, but still it felt quite weird at first. I think I subconsciously wanted everything to be like in France, since I was in a francophone place. Like, French is my mother tongue, but they speak a different French that I don’t always fully understand, and it’s a really weird feeling. Especially for the 70/90 thing, which comes up quite often in a hospital and in medicine in general (lots of numbers everywhere).

Also a thing that is confusing is that medical terms are not all the same here, and that’s really weird because you’d think that wouldn’t change within the same language, right?

I’ve been now living in Belgium for more than 3 years and I think I’ve adapted fast and quite well, to the point where French people accuse me of having a Belgian accent. Obviously I use Belgian words, phrases, and numbers.

And you know what? I love a cute Belgian accent. I love belgicisms. I love Belgium.

the numbers are obviously more logical in Belgian French (70 septante, 90 nonante)

they use savoir and pouvoir the opposite way as in France, I can’t say it’s more logical but I’ve definitely adopted it

I love the word brol, which means ‘lots of things’ (hard to accurately translate!) and I love the 'medical/anesthetic’ verb derived from it: broler, meaning 'to put all the catheters in the patient’

Être amoureux/amoureuse (de) - To be in love (with)

Tomber amoureux/amoureuse (de) - To fall in love (with)

S'éprendre de - To fall for

Être fou amoureux/Être folle amoureuse - To be crazy in love

Avoir le coup de foudre (pour) - To fall in love (with) at first sight

S'amouracher (de) / S'enticher (de) - To become infatuated (with)

Avoir le béguin pour - To have a crush on

Être secrètement amoureux/amoureuse de - To have a secret crush on

Se toquer (de) - To go crazy (about)

Sortir avec - To date

Faire l'amour (avec) - To make love (with)

Se fiancer à/avec - To get engaged 

Se marier avec - To get married 

Demander quelqu'un en mariage - To propose to someone

Être en couple (avec) - To be in a relationship (with)

S'embrasser - To kiss

Serrer quelqu'un dans ses bras - To hug someone

Faire un câlin à quelqu'un - To cuddle someone

Se blottir contre quelqu'un - To cuddle up to someone

Une âme sœur - Soul-mate

Le/La confident(e) - Person you confide in

Affectionner - To feel affection for

Parler à cœur ouvert - To reveal one’s feelings

Tromper quelqu'un - To cheat on someone

Trahir quelqu'un - To betray someone

Avoir une liaison (avec) - To have an affair (with) [long-term]

Avoir une aventure (avec) - To have an affair (with) [casual]

Ne plus s'aimer - To no longer love each other

Cesser d'être amoureux/amoureuse - To fall out of love

Se désintéresser - To lose interest in one another

Rompre avec quelqu'un - To break up with someone

Avoir le cœur brisé - To be broken-hearted

Divorcer de quelqu'un - To divorce someone

Obtenir le divorce - To get a divorce

keep your head up Love. one day your situation will be okay :)

1. ancien

in front of the noun: former, previous.

Ce ministre est un ancien avocat.

after the noun: old, of another time. 

Je préfère les meubles anciens aux contemporains.

2. brave

in front of the noun: good, honest.

Ce sont de braves gens.

after the noun: courageous.

La peur, c’est ce qui nous rend braves.

3. certain

in front of the noun: particular.

Notre conversation fut interrompue à un certain moment par une visite inopinée.

after the noun: sure, assured.

C’est un fait certain.

4. cher

in front of the noun: dear, cherished.

Mon cher ami d’enfance va me rendre visite demain.

after the noun: expensive.

Le caviar est un produit cher. 

5. dernier

in front of the noun: last in a series.

J'ai beaucoup aimé son dernier livre.

after the noun: preceding.

La nuit dernière, c'était la pleine lune. 

6. différent

in front of the noun: various.

Les différentes rues de la ville sont éclairées la nuit.

after the noun: dissimilar, not the same.

C’est une question différente à celle que je lui ai poseé.

7. drôle

in front of the noun (+ de) : bizarre, strange.

Mon voisin mène quand même une drôle de vie.  

after the noun: funny, amusing

On a éclaté de rire en écoutant la blague drôle.

8. grand

in front of the noun: great, important.

La grande Jeanne d’Arc a sauvé son peuple.

after the noun: large in size

Les enfants sont assis sous l’arbre grand.

9. même

in front of the noun: the same.

Elles portent le même chapeau.

after the noun: pure, exact (used for emphasis).

Le client réalisa le paiement le jour même.

10. nouveau

in front of the noun: another.

Je vous présente un nouvel élève. 

after the noun: new, previously unknown.

C’est une mode nouvelle.

11. pauvre

in front of the noun: unfortunate.

Ce pauvre garçon a le cœur brisé.

after the noun: not rich.

Les enfants pauvres n’ont rien à manger.

12. prochain

in front of the noun: next in a series.

Je descends à la prochaine station.

after the noun: following, but not in a specified series..

On se voit jeudi prochain pour en parler.

13. propre

in front of the noun: belonging to someone.

Ce sont ses propres commentaires.

after the noun: clean.

Utilise une serviette propre.

14. sale

in front of the noun: bad, low-down.

C'est un sale type, fais attention à toi !

after the noun: dirty.

Personne ne veut de tes slips sales.

15. seul

in front of the noun: only, sole.

C'est le seul endroit où vous pourrez trouver ce livre.

after the noun: alone.