#french masterpost

Since is its Pride Month and the Start of Pride celebrations around the world, I’m doing an LGBTQ+ for those travelling to French speaking countries for Sun, Sea and Sex. Full of terminology for sex, dating, celebrating and insults to listen out for. 

Identity

To be heterosexual / Être hétérosexuel to be straight / Être hétéro To be homoseuxal / Être Homosexuel(le) to be gay / Être Gay to be a lesbian / Être Lesbienne To be bisexual / Être bisexuel(l) to be bi / Être bi To be pansexual / Être pansexuel To be transgender / Être Transgenre

Pride

Gay Pride / La Gay Pride A Protest / Protestation Injustice / Injustice Equality / Égalité Homophobia / La homophobie Homophobe / Le Homophobe Discrimination / La Discrimination

Sexual Health

Condom /Capote To put a condom on / Mettre une capote Do you have a condom? / Tu as un capote? I have a condom / J’ai un capote I don’t have a condom / J’ai pas un capote Do you have? / Tu as..?

STD: Sexually Transmitted Disease

IST: Infection Sexuellement Transmissible

Hepatitis / L’hépatite Herpes / De l’herpès AIDS / Le sida

Gay Men

Types

Bear / Ours Bottom / Passif Cub / Ourson Daddy / Daddy Geek / Geek Jock / Sportif Otter /Loutre Poz / Séropo Smooth / Imberbe Top / Actif Twink / Minet/Crevette A Queen / Folle or Follasse

Bear Chaser - chaser

Sugarbaby - Giton

Insults

Ass-fucked / Enculé Ass Fucker / Enculeur Fag / Pede Faggot / Fifi

Sex

Discreet / Discret Dominant / Dominant Hook Up / Plan Cul Kink / Trips Leather / Cuir Submissive / Soumis /Sub

Have a quickie / Tirer un coup rapidos Fill you up / Te bourrer Pound your ass / T’exploser la rondelle Fuck in the ass /Enculer To Have a Hard On / Bander To Wank / Se Branler To Screw / Niquer To Fuck / Baiser To Get Laid / Se Fair Sauter To Cum - Jouir To Bend Someone Over / Baiser en levrette Suck my… / Suce moi.. Lick my… / Lèche moi Eat my / Bouffe-moi

You have such a tight..  / Ta .. est vraiment étroite Your … is so wet / Ta .. est tellement mouilée I wanna finger your / Je veux Mettre le doigt dans ta Can i eat your / Je peux bouffer ton/ta Can i drink your / Je peuix boire ton/ta Can i swallow you / Je Peux  t’avaler Can i suck you /Je peux te sucer

Take me from behind and cum in my ass Prends moi par derrière et jouis dans mon cul

Body Parts

Dick / Bite A big dick / Une grosse bite  A tiny dick / Une petite bite  A limp dick / Une bite molle  A half-boner / Un bande-mou

Balls / Les Couilles Nuts / Les bonbons Hung like a horse / Monté comme un âne

Ass / Cul Booty / Croupe Ass hole / Trou du cul

Orgasm.

Cum Jouir Shoot my load Lâcher la marchandise Bust my nut Balancer la sauce

Can I cum…? Je peux jouir…? in your mouth dans ta bouche in your ass dans ton cul on your face sur ton visage

Gay Women

Types

Butch / Butch Lipstick Lesbian  / Lesbienne Lipstick Gold Star / Étoile D’Or Feminine / Fem Futch / Futch/Bem Grazer / Brouteuse

Insults

Balasko Lesbian Bolès Lesbienne Derograty Term Truck Driver Camionnesue Grazer- brouteuse

Sex

Discreet / Discret Dominant / Dominant Hook Up / Plan Cul Kink / Trips Leather / Cuir Submissive / Soumis

Have a quickie / Tirer un coup rapidos To do cowgirl / S’emplarer la foufoune Go down on my pussy / Va t’occuper de mon minou Suck my… / Suce moi.. Lick my… / Lèche moi Eat my / Bouffe-moi

You have such a tight..  / Ta .. est vraiment étroite Your … is so wet / Ta .. est tellement mouilée I wanna finger your / Je veux Mettre le doigt dans ta Can i eat you / Je peux bouffer ton/ta Can i drink your / Je peuix boire ton/ta

Look at her nails, they’re too long, she's definitley single Regarde le bout de ses doigts, ils sont trop long, elle est définitivement célibataire!

Look at her nails, they’re nice and short Regarde le bout de ses doigts, ils sont bien et courts.

Body Parts

Tits / Les Nichons or Les Nénés Hooters / Les Nibards Boobs / Les Lolos Titties / Les Tétés Nipples / Mamelons Nips / Tétons Clit / Clito

Ass / Cul Booty / Croupe Ass hole /Trou du cul

Orgasm.

Who is she? What does she do? Why does anyone who knows anything about French know her?

Lemme tell you. She’s a little annoying and frustrating but man is she helpful. She’s always got your back. When in doubt, just refer to her, she’ll clear it up for you.

She lives a different life than most. While others live in the house of Avoir, she sits pretty in the house of Etre cause she bouji like that. Shes complicated like that, she doesn't follow the rules.

Now let's get for real cause I can't explain it using this metaphor anymore.

When you want to put things into past tense, you gotta use either Avoir (to have) or Etre (to be). Avoir is used most commonly, but in a special few cases, you gotta you Etre.

Let's start with the basics

AVOIR CONJUGATED

JE ‘AI

TU AS

IL/ELLE A

NOUS AVONS

VOUS AVEZ

ILS/ELLES ONT

ETRE CONJUGATED

JE SUIS

TU ES

IL/ELLE EST

NOUS SOMMES

VOUS ETES

ILS/ELLES SONT

Now we know how to conjugate the auxiliary verb! Yay!

In order to build a sentence in past tense you gotta have a past participle. There is a general rule on finding the past participles for any verb, but just like most things in french there are always exceptions.

For any verb that is not included in DRMRSPVANDERTRAMP, meaning the auxiliary used is Avoir, here’s how you would approach it:

For regular verbs ending in ER: Remove the “er” ending and replace with “é”

For regular verbs ending in IR: Remove the “ir” ending and replace with “i” 

For regular verbs ending in RE: Remove the “re” ending and replace with “u”

Next up, the Etre verbs and their past participles.

Let's break down DR MRS P VANDERTRAMP, both the verbs in the present tense and their past participles.

PRESENT TENSE- PAST PARTICIPLE

DEVENIR- DEVENU

REVENIR- REVENU

MOURIR- MORT (THIS ONE DOESN’T FOLLOW THE PATTERN, EASY TO FORGET)

RESTER- RESTÉ

SORTIR- SORTI

PASSER- PASSÉ

VENIR- VENU

ALLER- ALLÉ

NAITRE- NÉ (THIS IS A WEIRD ONE TOO, ALSO EASY TO FORGET)

DESCENDRE- DESCENDU

ENTRER- ENTRÉ

RENTRER- RENTRÉ

TOMBER- TOMBÉ

RETOURNER- RETOURNÉ

ARRIVER- ARRIVÉ

MONTRER- MONTRÉ

PARTIR- PARTI

So now we all know what an auxiliary is and what the past participles are for Etre verbs.

There’s a basic formula for how to form a phrase in the past tense, and it looks a little something like this:

SUBJECT + PRESENT TENSE AUXILIARY + PAST PARTICIPLE

example:

E- Henri ate an apple

FR- Henri a mangé une pomme

(This formula applies to both etre and avoir verbs)

That’s all for now. If there’s anything else you want to see, please let me know and I will try my best to help you out!

Hey guys! Movies helped me a lot to improve my French. I love French movies and French cinema and now I wanna share a few of my favorite movies and must-sees with you! I hope they’ll help you!

La peau douce (a bit older, about a man who has an affair with a young girl, black&white, a bit dramatic)

La vie d’Adèle (LESBIANS!)

Sur mes lèvres (a very nice thriller about a deaf girl and a criminal)

Dans la maison (a high school student writes stories about the mother of his buddy and it escalates)

8 femmes (lesbians, bisexuals, drama, a dead man, nice clothes, takes place in the 50ies)

Swimming Pool (you see boobs sometimes, a British writer spends a few days in the South of France and writes about mysterious things that happen there)

Sagan (a biopic about Françoise Sagan, dramatic and a bit gay)

Le placard (a guy pretends to be gay so he doesn’t lose his job)

Poltergay (gay disco ghosts from the 70ies mess up a man’s life and relationship)

Une nouvelle amie (great movie about a trans woman)

Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (y’all know this one)

Belles familles (family drama about a house and feelings, a man falls for his very young step sister)

La femme d’à côté (a man discovers that his new neighbour is his ex girlfriend, a lot of amour fou, sad film, dramatic)

Le dernier Métro (a Jewish theater director hides in his theater and his wife falls for an actor, during WW2, nice clothes, 2 gay characters (not main characters but still...))

L’enfer (1994 version) (a jealous man turns his wife’s life into a real nightmare, very interesting film)

L’homme qu’on aimait trop (based on a true story, takes place in Nice, crime, mystery)

Lila dit ça (drama, 2 teenagers living in Marseille, sad love story, a bit nsfw, about a writer)

La belle saison (Lesbians in the 70ies, unshaved arm pits for the win, cute yet sad, takes place on a farm)

Rien à déclarer (a very funny film about French and Belgian ppl and stereotypes)

Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (y’all should know this one!!! a classic! watch it with French subtitles!!!!)

Persepolis (animation film, an Iranian girl tells us about her life in Iran, France and Austria, very moving, based on real events)

Les innocents aux mains sales (older movie, with Romy Schneider!! a woman kills her husband but he’s not as dead as she thinks he is)

A la folie... pas du tout! (You think this is a cute romatic lil film? you are SO wrong!!)

As we’re in the middle of summer and a lot of us have time to read, I thought it would be great to list all the great french books I know and I’ve read if you want to practice french or read french books!! (or just if you don’t have books to read now) note : the list is faaar from being complete !

POETRY

Apollinaire - Alcools, Calligrammes André Breton & Philippe Soupault - The Magnetic Fields Charles Baudelaire - The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), Paris Spleen (Le Spleen de Paris) Paul Éluard - Capitale de la Douleur, Les Mains Libres Paul Verlaine - Poèmes Saturniens, Romances Sans Paroles Arthur Rimbaud - Illuminations Victor Hugo - The Contemplations Stéphane Mallarmé - Poésies Comte de Lautréamont - The Lay of Maldoror Louise Labé - Poésies Pierre de Ronsard - Les Odes Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - Elegies et romances Alphonse de Lamartine - The Meditations

NOVELS

Albert Camus - The Stranger, The Plague, The First Man Jean-Paul Sartre - Nausea, The Words Annie Ernaux - The Years, The Possession, Shame, Happening, A Woman’s Story Stendhal - The Red and the Black Victor Hugo - The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables Madame de La Fayette - La Princesse de Clèves Madeleine de Scudéry - Clélie Honoré de Balzac - The Unknown Masterpiece, Old Goriot Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education George Sand - Story of my Life Alfred de Musset - The Confession of a Child from the Century Laurent Binet - HHhH, The Seventh Function of Language Jean Teulé - The Suicide Shop, Eat Him if You Like, Monsieur Montespan, Charly 9 Voltaire - Zadig, Candide Chrétien de Troyes - Yvain, The Knight of the Lion + Lancelot, The Knight of the Cart Marguerite Duras - The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein Marguerite Yourcenar - Memoirs of Hadrian Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Night Flight, The Little Prince, The Wisdom of the Sands Jean de la Fontaine - The Fables Émile Zola - The Beast Within Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time André Gide - The Counterfeiters, The Immoralist, The Vatican Cellars, The Pastoral Symphony François-René de Chateaubriand - René, Atala, Memoirs from Beyond the Grave Aragon - Aurélien Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Reveries of a Solitary Walker

PLAYS

I’ve been struggling with it since day one and even now I don’t think it is perfect, but with some help, it got better and better every time. Here are a few links with tips that definitely helped me out!

7 French Pronunciation tips to avoid sounding like a tourist 

How to sound more like a native french speaker

How to pronounce R in French

How to pronounce “EN, EM, AN & AM” sounds in French 

How to pronounce “AI & EI” sound in French

How to pronounce “Œ” sound in French

How to pronounce “EU” sound in French

How to pronounce “EAU” sound in French

How to pronounce “GN” sound in French

How to pronounce “AIN” sound in French

How to pronounce “OIN” sound in French

How to pronounce “OI” sound in French 

How to pronounce “ON” sound in French

How to pronounce “OU” sound in French

How to pronounce “TH” in French 

How to pronounce the “CH” sound in French

How to pronounce PSY, PSO & PSEU in French

Vowel Sounds in French

Phonétique : les nasales

Phonétique + Phonétique opposition + Phonétique visuelle + Syllabes

French Pronunciation Awareness: 8 Major Points You Should Learn ASAP

200 MINUTES TO MASTER FRENCH PRONUNCIATION

5 COMMON FRENCH PRONUNCIATION MISTAKES

How to Improve Your French Accent: 6 Practical Tips 

French Mistakes to Avoid - French Pronunciation

10 TRICKS TO TALK LIKE A NATIVE FRENCH

Introduction to Perfect French Pronunciation 

4 Great tips for easy french pronunciation 

Pronounce French brands like a pro

French pronunciation - The accents

What NOT to pronounce in French 

How to Pronounce the French “R”

Lesser seen french tips

French Podcasts 

Also, if you want a fun way to do it, I recommend listening to music and singing along.

Maître Gims - Est-ce que tu m'aimes ?

Sindy - Sans rancune ft. La Fouine

Frozen - Let It Go (French version)

Lara Fabian - Je Suis Malade

Black M - Je suis chez moi

Kendji Girac - Andalouse

Simon Morin - Elle veut

Indila - Dernière Danse

Lara Fabian - Je t'aime

Black M - Sur ma route

Stromae - Formidable

Simon Morin - Reste

Stromae - Papaoutai

Sindy - Aïe Aïe Aïe

Maître Gims - Bella

Willy William - Ego 

Stromae - carmen

Alma - Requiem

Zaz - Je Veux

Zaz - On ira 

I saw a few masterposts like this going around in the langblr community, but some genres are left out sometimes, and also I wanted to give my own perspective on it so here’s a little list of some french artists that I like (and that sing in French) by genre, with a link to one of their songs on Youtube. I left the most famous french artists out cause I don’t want to repeat what you have already seen, some here are quite well-know, some not, and also some are pretty old but idc. And also some are nsfw, especially in the rap and punk section.

PS : Imma add a metal/hardcore section but I’m gonna ask some friends first because I personnally don’t know of any bands that sing in french in this category

indie pop/rock

Requin Chagrin

Vendredi sur Mer

Baden Baden

Éléphant

Feu! Chatterton

La Femme

Odezenne (ps : this song is totally nsfw)

Isaac Delusion

Jean-Baptiste Maunier

Merci Beaucoup

variété

(it’s what we call kind of pop or folky songs with an emphasis on lyrics)

Yépa (you’ve gotta watch this music video)

Arman Méliès

Da Silva

Laurie Darmon

Laurent Lamarca

Ridan (I linked this music video cause so french)

Clarika (my mom loves her)

Renan Luce

Autour de Lucie

Émilie Simon

punk

Justin(e)

No one is innocent

Guerilla Poubelle

Bérurier noir

Les Sheriff

pop rock

Al.Hy

Eiffel

Alcest

Dolly

Louise Attaque

Noir Désir (keep in mind : it is seen as controversial for some people in France to listen to them since the frontman killed his girlfriend by beating her up in the head (yeah...). I think liking music is detached from that, but if you don’t well I warned you)

rap

Lucio Bukowski (gosh this song has probably the meanest lyrics in all french rap but it’s soooo good)

Deen Burbigo

Virus

Damso

Fixpen Still

Luni (trap)

Columbine (I don’t really like them but lots of people do so)

other genres/miscellaneous

Odeurs (80′s upbeat synthpop)

Camille (I would say vocal pop but she has her very own style really)

Christophe (70′s psychedelic rock)

Essaie Pas (weird electro artsy shit + I think they’re french canadians)

Sylvain Chauveau (classical)

Ibrahim Maalouf (also classical/jazz)

Zoufris Maracas (”world music” I guess ? though I dislike this name of genre)

Fatals Picards (it’s parodical music with funny/ridiculous lyrics)

Cet article se réfère à la/au - This article refers to

D’après cette déclaration - According to this statement

A mon avis - In my opinion*

Selon moi - In my opinion*

Quant à moi - In my opinion/As for me

Je suis tout à fait d’accord avec l’affirmation - I totally agree with this statement*

Je ne suis pas tout à fait d’accord avec l’affirmation - I do not totally agree with this statement*

C’est bien un problème de nos jours - It is a current problem

Ce problème augmente de jour en jour - It is getting worse day by day

Premièrement - Firstly

Tout d’abord - First of all

En premier lieu, examionons… - Lets examine

Franchement - Frankly

En général - Generally*

En effet - In effect

Par exemple - For example*

Il y a le pour et contre - There are pros and cons*

Ce qui me choque, c’est… - The thing that shocks me

Je pense que… - I think that *

He crois que… - I believe that

C’est vrai que… - It is true that

Il est  évident que… - It is evident

A vrai dire - True to say*

Actuellement - Presently

De nos jours - Today/These days

Sans doute - Without a doubt

A l’avenie - In the future

Personnellement, je… - Personally, I… *

Deuxièmement - Secondly

Un autre aspect c’est que … Another aspect

En revanche - On the other hand

Pas contre - On the contrary*

Néanmoins - None the less

Cependant - However

De plus - What’s more

Puis - Next

Ensuite - Then

Donc - So*

Alors - Well

Ill est inacceptable de dire que … Unacceptable to say

J’ai l’impression que tout le monde ignore ce  problème - I get the feeling the world is ignoring the problem

Personne ne veut pas parler de ce  problème - Nobody wants to discuss the problem

Il faut admettre que… - You have to admit that…

Pour conclure - To conclude*

Finalement - Finally

Pour finir - Finally

Pour résumer - In summary

En somme - In short/In summary*

C’est atroce - It’s atrocious

C’est scandaleux - It’s scandalous*

C’est insupportable - It’s unbelievable

C’est inadmissible - It’s unacceptable

C’est captivant - It’s captivating

C’est polémique - Controversial

Quelle horreur - The horror*

Quelle catastrophe - A catastrophe*

Ce n’est pas juste - Not fair*

C’est une question difficile  à  résoudre - Difficult to respond to

C’est un  problème facile/difficile  à  résoudre - Easy/hard to fix*

Face à ce  problème, on se sent impuissant - As we face this, we feel powerless*

Il faut trouver une solution  imméiatement - Immediate solution

Le gouvernement doit  résoudre ce  problème - Government has to fix the problem*

La solution pourrait  être… - The solution could be…

Hey guys! Movies helped me a lot to improve my French. I love French movies and French cinema and now I wanna share a few of my favorite movies and must-sees with you! I hope they’ll help you!

Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources (takes place in the 1930s, tragic story about 2 families, that plot twist tho) 

Naissance des pieuvres (teen love, a girl falls for another girl) 

Jeune & Jolie (nsfw, might be triggering for some people!!, a girl has sex for the first time, it’s very unpleasant and then she starts to sleep with men for money)

Le prénom (choosing the wrong name for your baby might end up like in this movie)

Tomboy (the title says everything! very good film!)

17 filles (17 high school girls decide to get pregnant at the same time)

Nathalie... (a woman wants a prostitute to sleep with her husband because she wants to find out if he’s really able to cheat on her)

La famille Bélier (lots of singing, about a girl and her family - everyone is deaf except for that girl, her dream is to sing but her family isn’t that supportive at first, also involves teen love and a latex allergy)

Respire (2 best friends who don’t stay best friends for the entire film and things escalate)

La cérémonie (lesbian vibes, a woman who doesn’t tell anyone that she cannot read and write gets into trouble, a bit bloody at the end)

L’homme de Rio (old movie, adventure and love in Rio de Janeiro, very cute main actress)

Les demoiselles de Rochefort (movie about 2 sisters, lots of singing and dancing)

Paulette (a racist granny starts to deal with drugs and turns into a nice person, awesome comedy)