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28/08/2008 18:02:29
 
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Miscellaneous
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>>>>>>>>>"Je ne comprends pas vraiment le français. Je sais simplement quelques expressions."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>"Je ne comprends pas vraiment de français. Je sais simplement quelques expressions."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Not trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, and assuming you're a francophone, as i understand it wouldn't it be "...Je connais simplement quelques expressions."?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Savoir is to know a fact, whereas connaitre is to know a thing: person, phrase, city, etc.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>eg "je sais que tu parts demain" vs "je connais votre destination" ???
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Merci, Terry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>De rien, Dmitry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This means "not at all", right? Because I found another expression for "you are welcome"
>>>>
>>>>literally "of nothing". like "'tis nothing".
>>>>
>>>>You found "Je t'en pris", right?
>>>
>>>Can you use "silvu ple" (sorry I don't know how to spell it <g>) for the "you are welcome"?
>>
>>S'il vou plait = "please" - literally "if it pleases you"
>
>Thank you for clarifying this. I thought (mistakenly) that in french as in Russian there is the same word for "please" and "you are welcome".

Oops! "S'il vous plait" or, to a familiar or friend "S'il te plait"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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