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Every Greek I've asked about "having a banana" had the same dirty thoughts as I in this video! 🤣
I would have thought this too, but the French don’t call the penis la banane (the banana), they call it la queue (the tail), which has always puzzled me… although it does explain why French men are always walking backwards…
Hahaha for sure you're not the only one Dimitris 😂
Hey, I thought of it too. And then the next one was about an extra leg? Same thoughts again.
The video was a lot of fun to participate in, thank you for the invitation, Easy French! 😃 But also, since nobody seems to have pointed it out in the comments yet: can we please all take a minute to appreciate the new amazing quality that this episode has come in? 😛 😅 Easy French with the new camera is really something else, great job girls 🙌 🥰 ~J
Haha thank you Justyna and Aga and all the Easy Polish team for everything 🤗🤗🤗
In Brazil, there's a portugues equivalent to 'poser un lapin à quelqu'un'! It is 'dar bolo em alguém', which would translate to 'give a cake to someone', and it also means to not show up for a meeting. Love your channel!
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And holding the candle too! Ficar de vela!
@@giogiogica segurar a vela, hahaha
It's a bit like "do a runner" in English, although that kind of means you arrived and left quickly, perhaps before the meeting. Rabbits are fast, although to be honest I first thought of their reproductive fame.
I'm happy to see you guys meet each others and speak English in different accent. You guys make me more confident to speak English too!
Never be afraid to speak!!🥰
@@EasyFrench 👍🏻❤️
It was super fun to take part in this video! (Even though we were not really successful…) 😂
Thanks a lot for participating!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s great to see hosts from different Easy channels.
Yeeesss ! Watch all their channels !
C’est pratique, cette vidéo. Manuel’s acting like péter un câble just made my day😂
😂😂😂
Love this video! As someone in China and still suffering from lockdowns,its just nice to see natural and sincere human interactions😢😢
08:50 The most German way to say something in French
In Russian:
1. to hold a candle = to be informed very well about somebody's sex life. and it is usually used in negative sentence, because obviously no one can be truly informed about it. for example: "How can you say that? You didn't hold a candle!"
2. hit by the rake = to make the same mistake several times, or again!
That's so funny. In the US, you might say "she doesn't hold a candle to her sister!" Which means you are comparing the two and the sister is prettier. The contest is that she wouldn't hold a candle to her sister because it would show how pretty the sister is, even when you can see her well.
Je suis un francophone du Québec et je ne connaissais pas la signification d'au moins la moitié de ces expressions. Très intéressant! 🙂
Grand bonjour au Québec ! 🤗🤗🤗
J'en connaissais déjà la moitié, mais je les ai toutes aimées! 😁
Il est vrai que, pour ce qui est des expressions intéressantes, drôles et déconcertantes, le français en est *plein à craquer* : _un ange passe_ , _avoir une case en moins_ , _sucrer les fraises_ , _couper la poire en deux_ , _avoir la pêche_ , _mettre du beurre dans les épinards_ , _envoyer quelqu'un sur les roses_ , _avoir une araignée au plafond_ ...ça mérite bien une deuxième partie! 😉
Perso, j'aime particulièrement "Il en a une qui dit merde à l'autre". Ca peut se dire quand quelqu'un louche, par exemple. "Il a un oeil qui dit merde à l'autre".
"il a un oeil qui scie le bois, l'autre qui l'empile" 😁
@@crissandra58 Ou "Ca m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre", que Chirac aimait bien :) Il semble qu'il ait même inventé celle là, que je trouve vraiment énorme. Rare de voir un Président de la République inventer une expression graveleuse qui fait référence aux burnes... Mon vieux en avait inventé une autre, vraiment conne:
"Je m'en tape le coquillard avec des queues de langoustines".
I love that some of these idioms are so figurative or sarcastic. Right up my alley of humor and self expression.
3:39 love Judith laughing in the background
To be honest, this video gives me a beautiful leg because I am not learning French... But I find the Easy French team very fun and entertaining!
You might learn if you keep watching 😜🤗 Thanks for your kind message!
Je m'intéresse beaucoup à ce type d'épisode. Y a bcp d'expressions à connaître. Merci beaucoup pour l'équipe d'Easy French 😊
Such a fun episode! Great to play along, thank you!
Wow! I have studied idiomatic expressions before, but have never heard of any of these before! Very interesting and useful to have these when studying French!
Merci Jeffrey 😁
There’s something exactly like “to put yourself on 31” in English but it’s with a more common number. It’s called “dressed to the nines”. There is the term “to hold a candle”, but it’s completely different. If someone said “He doesn’t hold a candle to her”, it means he can’t be compared to her; he is not as good as her.
They should have said 'to put yourself on your 31st" because it originates to the 31st of December when you get well dressed for the new year's festivities.
@@chucku00 We don't know the exact origin of this expression. It would seem that expression is older than Gregorian Calendar (1582).
So, if we refer to the Julius Calendar (45-1582), the last day of the year was the 28 February, so it doesn't work.
Some peoples says it coming from "trentain" (in ancient french, 750-1400) who refer to a luxurious blanket/sheet, and became "trente-et-un" (31 in french) 'cause the pronouciation is similar.
@@LivariusD Well, there's a linguist who doesn't agree with this hypothesis :
"Une anecdote joliment tissée qui ne convaincra pas toutefois Claude Duneton. Il détricotera une à une les mailles de son enquête en rappelant tout d'abord la rareté du mot trentain avant de souligner un anachronisme. Dommage. Le linguiste évacuera également l'hypothèse avancée par certaines lexicologues, qui auraient vu dans l'expression une «coloration soldatesque», c'est-à-dire, le numéro oublié d'une tenue de cérémonie employée dans les uniformes militaires."
BTW, in the 19th century, French people usually said «se mettre sur son trente-six» (still used in Québec at the beginning of the 20th century) or «sur son quarante deux» before changing to "se mettre sur son trente-et-un", so the "trentain" supposition is quite hollow because this expression is way more recent than the 16th century in its current form.
@@chucku00 Yes, trentain and trentesixain have the same ethymology (the number of yarns layer a textile was made, 30 or 36 x 100). Never heard about "sur son quarante-deux", but yeah, maybe. And i don't know if it was uncommon words, but they was used by Louis XIV, and other Kings on their times.
Claude Duneton also sayed, in 2010, French language gonna disappear in the 50 next years, and all European gonna speak English. I seriously doubt about that, and his credibility.
In any case, the lack of written records shows that's complicated to situate this expression in time.
@@LivariusD He's probably right about all Europeans talking Globish (English language will also be seriously altered during the next 40 years) in addition to their own national language (regional is way more uncertain) as long as there will be more than five million people using them.
"Casser les pieds" was the first french idiom i ever heard and i was so confused. The banane one had me dead 😂
😂😂😂
Une casse-pieds, un casse-cul, des casse-couilles, une casse-bonbons : pain in the.... very sensitive areas...
I was with the first guy when he explained his idea about the banana 😆
Girls from Easy Czech said that the expression "hold a candle" has an equivalent in czech like "fifth wheel" but it is just a person that did not fit in a group. I would say that we have better czech idiom for "hold a candle" and it is "dělat křena" which is literaly "to do horseradish" and something like english idiom "play gooseberry" .
Merci 🤗🤗🤗
In American English, we don't use "play gooseberry", but I would think "fifth wheel" and "play gooseberry" are about the same. But I don't have much experience with "play gooseberry" except British tv.
Mes amies de l’équipe Easy French - quand la pandémie a commencé, j’avais décidé de voyager en Europe après la normalisation de la situation mondiale, et vers cet objectif, j’avais commencé d’apprendre le français, l’espagnol et le russe. Votre chaîne a été une tres grande resource pour moi, et quelque chose qui m’a aidé tellement pendant les deux années dernières pour ces études. Et vous savez? Je me trouve à Paris maintenant, en parlant le français, mais malheureusement en rétablissant d’une attaque du COVID que j’ai attrapé ici. C’est pas l’histoire parfaite que j’avais voulu, mais voila - je suis ici en fait! :)
Je vous remercie pour tous votre efforts, et vous souhaite des réussites toujours plus grandes!
Cher ami, merci beaucoup pour ce message très touchant ! Nous sommes si heureuses de pouvoir accompagner tant de gens dans leur apprentissage du français 🧡 C'est merveilleux que vous soyez à Paris maintenant !
This one was a lot of fun to watch! 😂 Thx for making these videos 💫
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I like the "you have the banana" for the smiling face..by the way, in my country people used to describe the French brand automobile Peugeot as a "car with the smiling face"..as the front view of most of the Peugeot car looks like a smiling face..so, a car that "have a banana" :p
😅 We didn't expect this one to be hard to guess..
@@EasyFrench In Polish we say the same thing "have a banana on sb's face", however it's not exacly an idiom - it's rather slang, and we sometimes use it pejoratively, as in "what's so funny?!"
@@EasyFrench It's very hard nobody use a banana for a smile , except French
The side effect for me was remembering words like „banana“ and „rabbit“ in languages of the hosts that you were showing (e. g. muz and tavşan in Turkish). Great film, I loved it! :)
Thank you so much for this video about these beautiful expressions. I have now written them in my notebook. ♥️❤️
Great! To learn much more, go to patreon.com/easyfrench !
Love these crossovers.
C'est un épisode très intéressant. J'ai profité beaucoup:)
Great video quality! Keep it up
J'adore cette chaine de RUclips!!!!!! Elle aide mes eleves beaucoup avec leur comprehension orale et les videos sont tellement interessantes et divertissantes. Merci beaucoup!
Merci beaucoup ! Nous sommes toujours ravies et fières que des enseignant(e)s utilisent nos vidéos ! N'oubliez pas de vous abonner pour ne rien rater 😊
J'ai adoré cette video beaucoup!! Merci!
Merci à vous !!!!
In Italian we actually say "hold the candle": reggere il moccolo, that is even better🤣🤣🤣
Merci beaucoup 😊😊
I love this!! Because now I will sound cool when I go to Paris this summer lol
Trop bien ! Essaye de nous écrire quand tu arrives :) !
vous êtes merveilleuses, j'ai adoré la vidéo! très originale et instructive!
Merci ! 🤗
Quelle bonne idée cette video 😭 merci, je le plus
j'ai beaucoup ri avec la premier ... Merci
Great Video Easy French! Keep it up..... 😍👍🏻
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That was fun! Merci 🙏🥰
Thanks for participating Mathias 🧡
4:33 haha such a nice reaction seriously
The little girl behind the anchor was so cute 7:32 .....😍
J'ai besoin d'une nouvelle banane 🤣🤣....encore une vidéo sympa.
Such a great video, I really enjoyed it:)
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lol I am a french speaking Belgian and had no idea what some of these expression meant :p I only recognized se prendre un rateau et pêter un cable, and adding water to the wine...
Très utile
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Nice accents!
How about this one - Mettre l'huile sur le feu......
Se mettre sur son 31 - en anglais on dit "To dress to the nines"
Hello Easy French! i really like your videos and not only does it help me learn french but also makes a lot of fun :) thank you for that.
In the video you forgot to say the french translation of "add water to wine" so is it something like "ajouter de l'eau en vine" ? its the second last expression in the video i think...
Coucou ! Ouiiii, ça se dit « ajouter de l’eau à son vin » 🤗
I'm more familiar with "mettre de l'eau dans son vin", for example, "quand elle était jeune, elle se rebellait contre tout, mais depuis, elle a mis de l'eau dans son vin et est devenue...générale des Armées?"
"Poser un lapin " c'est une expression que je savais avant. Les autres j'ai essayé de deviner 😂
Et ça a donné quoi?
he he it's funny to hear you guys speak english for a change. :)
Waouh !! Je connais quelques-unes. Oh j'kiffe l'expression "péter un câble" 😄. Ça sera intéressant écouter les expressions de les autres Easy Languages!!! 😉💪👀
Restez connecté, des vidéos similaires sur les autres chaînes arrivent !!
@@EasyFrench 😃💪💯
That one with the number 31 could be very funny in turkish, since that number has different conotations in turkish 😂
Please explain 😝
😎😎😎This video really did make me "laugh out loud." 😎😎😎
Hahahaha we laughed a lot too!
3:35 That guy is my hero. 🤣
A greek hero 🤓
i cant be the only one that think the easy languages group includes cutest people in the world xD
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I look forward to using these! Merci! Un question, pour ajouter de l'eau à votre vin? Is this add a little water to your wine?
Exactement 🤗
@@EasyFrench Merci!
In South Africa 🇿🇦 holding a candle means 'to be a third wheel'
In italiano “to hold the candle” è: “reggere il moccolo” 👩❤️💋👨+🥴
Nous avons le candelle expression aussi en Brésil, mais on parle "être une candelle" x)
Merci du partage !
Voici quelques expressions idiomatiques:
1/ - "casser du sucre sur le dos de quelqu'un" / = parler en mal de quelqu'un en son absence
2/ - "avoir la banane" / = avoir toujours le sourire
3/ - "poser un lapin à quelqu'un" / = ne pas venir à un rendez-vous / et sans annoncer son absence
4/ - "pêter un câble" / = s'énerver, être en colère,
5/ - "tenir la chandelle" / = se sentir en trop quand on est avec un couple
6/ - "se prendre un râteau" / = être rejeté par la personne à qui on a avoué ses sentiments amoureux
7/ - " se mettre sur son trente et un / 31"/ = s'habiller très élegamment pour un événement
8/ - " mettre de l'eau dans son vin" / = il faut être plus modéré
9/ - "ça me fait une belle jambe" / = ça ne m'intéresse pas"
You guys speak perfect English! Quoi!? Fun topic. Gave me a banana!
Casser du sucre : Parler derrière le dos de quelqu'un, je crois ! Mdr
Easy greek got no chill😂😂😂
Theres an old English music hall song going: LETS al...l go down the STRAND/ 'Ave- a ban-an-a/ ...Now at last I know why the second phrase is emphatic, and not about fast food !
I've been speakng French for 60 years,but living in the US, didn't kn a single one. That was fun.
Por favor un día de estos hablen en español.
Salutations du Mexique.
Very very very soon 🤗🤗🤗
La dernière est très française comme attitude. Et après la frase "turist go home" m'a tué mdr
Je pete un cable! We say in English, ''I'm going to blow a fuse!'' 😆
P.S Greek guy is SEXY!
J'aimerais savoir la version originale de la première expression, c'est caisser/rompre le sucre sur le dos de quelqu'un? Je crois que vous n'avez pas dit.
I knew 'poser un lapin a qqn' ( get stood up) and ca me fait une belle jambe. ( that's really usefull.. I don't thinlk)
To begin with, the peculiar counting rules that exist in French can only be seen as a harassment to foreign learners. Only those who are good at mathematics can overcome it without difficulty.
Haha or people become better at math when counting in French, Danish etc ? 😝
très utile😍 , très drole😂
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Very weird expression in the french language but it is nice to know them
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Judith 😀
10:42 in Czech is “to be the 5th wheel”? 😂 I guess if you are the 5th in a double date…
Δημήτρη, σε λατρεύω ♥️😆
The expression "péter un câble", would that be the same as "péter les plombs"?
En vouloir a quelqu'un, etre en froid avec quelqu'un, se mettre quelqu'un a dos, ce sont les memes significations? Meaning to be mad with somebody?
Very nice channel ! Thanks for sharing this.
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I like you both ❤️❤️
Alors je pense que j'ai compris le sens " d'avoir la banane"car une banane a la forme d'une sourire " 🤔😊😅 ou peut être j'ai torte !
Michael Douglas in *Fatal Attraction* has a whole different meaning for getting a rabbit. 🐇 🥵 @0:53 Is that Russell Crowe’s long-lost German son? 🤓
avoir un banane lol good one
Bonjour et j'espère que vous allez très bien. Ces expressions seraient équivalentes en espagnol mexicain à ce qui suit :
1.- casser du sucre sur le dos de quelqu'un = "Hablar pestes" de alguien aussi "Hablar a espaldas o mal de alguien"
2.- Avoir la banane: Estar sonriente
3.- Poser un lapin à quelqu'un = "Dejar plantado a alguien" aussi " Dejar vestido y alborotado a alguien"
4.- Péter un câble = "Perder los estribos", "Estallar de coraje", "Perder la cabeza", "Estar rabioso" , "Desesperarse", "Perder la paciencia"
5.- Tenir la chandelle = "Ser mal tercio" aussi "Estar de mal tercio"
6.- Se prendre un râteau = "Rechazar a alguien" , "Batear a alguien", "Mandar a freir esparragos a alguien"
7.- Se mettre sur son trente et un = "Estar reluciente", il y a une autre expression informelle que nous disons comme un compliment : "Que bien te ves cuando te bañas" littéralement en français "Comme tu es belle quand tu te baignés"
8.- ça me fait une belle jambe = "ay ,me vale" , "no me importa", "me vale gorro"
Salutations du Mexique
Merci beaucoup pour ces traductions !!
put yourself on 31 : Am I the only one who was thinking about Baskin Robbins?
3:42 omg mdr😂
Et quelle est la traduction de "put the water to the wine"? Mettre l'eau dans le vin? Merci 🙂
It means to soften up your stance and not come across so strongly, to literally weaken your drink by adding water, making it more mellow.
In Russia the expression "pour" a lot of water" means don't tell important information, give more useless details. And we have one strange expression: " have noodle on ears" or "someone put noodle on my ears) . What does it mean? For exemple, someone tells you a story and you say" oh, how much noodle I have on my ears... "
Pardon jajajajaja " a blonde moustache" avec une banane jajajajajajaja
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
We say you're being a lightbulb lol
4:21 "something that can be the shape of a banana on the face" my god im too dirtyminded for this
Mathias is so cute!
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American here thinking that if you have the banana is if someone is appealing. :D I know bad pun, but it sort of fits.
"Chaque fois que j'étais autour mon ami et sa copine, je sentais comme si je tenais la chandelle" did that sound right?.
"Chaque fois que j'étais AVECmon ami et sa copine, je ME sentais comme si je tenais la chandelle" (petite correction, c'était presque parfait ! Pour pratiquer encore plus, n'hésitez pas à devenir membre de notre communauté sur patreon.com/easyfrench 😁)
est ce qu'il y a Easy Indonesia ? :D. je suis indonesian et je voudrais bien apprendre la langue francaise. je trouve easy french et c'est super. merci boucoup a vous tous.
Je connais seuelement poser un lapin, tous les autres etaient nouvelles!
Je suis à deux doigts de faire quelque chose: just about ready to do something ,tomber dans le panneau: fall into the trap, ne manque pas de sel: couldn't be more different, reste de marbre: stay still like stone.
Super 👏
Les filles d'Easy Czech.
😅😂😂🤣j'ai aimé l'expression " tenir la chandelle " ou to hold a 🕯️ " car en Brésil on utilise cette expression de la même façon qu'en Europe . J'ai déjà tenu la chandelle une ou deux fois 😭😅. En Brésil on dit : " segurar vela " très frustrant et triste expression pour ceux qui sont célibataires comme moi 😳