FRENCH VERB ‘ LOUER
To expect supposes a sufficient reason to consider that a thing will happen.
Ex. ? I'expect my brother to day. J'attends mon frère aujourd'hui.
Here I use fo expect because I have a reason to believe that he will come.
To wait is used in other cases, Ex. : Wait for me, Attendez-moi.
Wait until he comes.
Attendez jusqu’à ce qu’il arrive.
Louer This verb has several meanings,
lo Meaning to glorify, to proclaim the glory of
some body, something, it is translated by To praise, Praise God, holy angels.
Louez Dieu, £ints Anges.
20 Louer, meaning to obtain for a certain price the temporary use of à thing, is translated by (to hire.
Ex. : L'hired a horse for two days.
Je louai un cheval: pour deux jours.
Je me procurui un cheval pour deux jours.
30 Louer meauing to grant the temporary use of a thing for a compensation, is translated by to let.
Ex. : To let a house to tourists.
Louer une maison aux touristes.
40 To hire out has the same meaning as to let.
Ex. : He has hired bis farm out.
Il a loué (donné à louage) sa ferme.
Plaire Most common expression
We are pleased to go there.
Il nous plaît d'aller là.
The story pleases the boy.
L'histoire plaît à l'enfant.
If you please.
S'u vous plaît.
Se plaire, prendre plaisir à.
To deligth, to take pleasure in.
Ex. : Il prend plaisir à jouer.
He takes pleasure in playing.
II se plaît à se battre.
He delights in fighting.
Empêcher Je n'y puis m'empêcher de pleurer.
Ï cannot help weeping.
Je n'y puis rien faire.
I cannot help it, Il ne pouvait :s empêcher de rire.
He could not help laughing,
Tarder Il tarde à venir.
He is long in coming.
: Il tardait à répondre.
He was long in answering,
FRENH VERB. ‘‘ ARRIVER ”
Il nous tarde de le voir.
We long to see him
Il ne tardera pas à venir.
He will not be long in coming.
Penser Je l'ai fait sans y penser.
I did it without design.
J'ai pensé tomber.
I was near falling.
I had like to have fallen.
J'ai pensé tomber (manqué de tomber).
Tenir Je m'en tiens à ce que j'ai dit, I abide by what I said, Nous ne savons pas à quoi nous en tenir.
We do not know what to think of it.
Il ne tient qu'à vous de le faire.
It rests with you to do that.
Itis in your power to do it.
Arriver
This verb is translated by two words. fo happen— to arrive.
To happen means to take place without being forseen.
Ex. : I happened to see him.
Il m'arriva de le voir.
To arrive means to reach a plare, to be no longer
absent.
Ex.: He urrived in the morning, Il arriva le matin.
Il y à expressing time.
Whon il y a expresses time fully past, the English use the preterit (passé défini) with the abverb ago, which must be placed after the noun expressing time.
Ex. : I saw him two years ago.
Il y u deux ans que je l'ai vu.
It is easy 10 see by this example that the English language makes an inversion just as if wo said in
French Je l'ai vu il y a deux ans.
If the time is not fully past we use the, perfect tenso (passé indéfini) with the adverb now without translating dl y a.
Il y a deux ans que nous tra vaillons 11.
We have now been two years working here.
French gallicisms
… Jui mal à la tête,
I have the headache.
J'ai mal aux dents.
I have the toochache.
J'ai mal aux yeux.
J have sore eyes.
J'ai mal aux oreilles,
I have sore ears,
FRENÇH GALLICISMS
J'ai beau lur dire In vain do I tell him.
Vous avez beau dire, You speak in vain.
Vous allez vite en besogne, You work with precipitation,
Par bonheur,
Fortunately.
Il est gonflé d'orqueil,
He is swelled with pride,
À tout bout de champ,
At every instant. j
Il ne laisse pas d'étre honnéte homme
He is an honest man for all that,
Je voudrais pouvoir parler, I wish I could speak.
Je désirerais aller là, I wish I could go thore,
Il vient de partir, He has just started.
Je viens de parler, I have just spoken.
Il venait de rentrer, He had just come in.
Il en va de.... comme de Itis with ... as with....
Cet homme en «à après moi, This man is angry with me, Tout sage que vous. éles, Wise as you are,
En tout et partout,
In all things.
Après tout. :
After all, upon the whole.
Plus d'une fois,
Mavy « time,
Tout ce que nous avons, {
All thut we have. 1 ]
Nous voici, Here we are.
Les voici qui viennent.
Here they come.
Les voilà qui partent.
There they are starting.
Cet homme a raison, This man is right. Cet homme a tort, This man is Wrong.
