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0:00What was to send, like to envoy?
0:05Envoyer So the en of envoyer and the en of manger, to eat, is the same sound.
0:13That en and that en, envoyer, to send.
0:17How would you say, I can't send it, I cannot send it?
0:24Je ne peux pas l'envoyer.
0:28Very good.
0:29Je ne peux pas l'envoyer.
0:32I can't, je ne peux pas, to send it.
0:36L'envoyer, that contracts together.
0:38L apostrophe, envoyer.
0:40I can't send you it.
0:46Je ne peux pas te l'envoyer.
0:52Very good.
0:53Je ne peux pas te l'envoyer.
0:56So we have te, le in French.
0:59The person comes first.
1:01In English we can have both orders.
1:02No, I can't send you it, I can't send it to you.
1:05But in French, te, le.
1:08To go, like aller, how was that in French, to go?
1:14Aller The station was la gare.
1:18G-A-R-E, la gare.
1:20How would you say, she wants to go to the station.
1:28Elle veut aller à la gare.
1:32Very good.
1:33Elle veut aller à la gare.
1:36So we have gare, which is station, with our feminine e ending, la gare.
1:43But we can also make that into a verb, gare, g-a-r-e-r, gare, which means to
1:50park.
1:51What was the car?
1:56La voiture.
1:58How would you say, I must park the car.
2:03Je dois garer la voiture.
2:11Very good.
2:12And I can't park the car?
2:17Je ne peux pas garer la voiture.
2:22Very good.
2:23Je ne peux pas garer la voiture.
2:28And the ne, in spoken French, is often left out, not in written French.
2:33But in spoken French, you can say, and you will also hear, je peux pas.
2:38Je peux pas garer la voiture.
2:41To find, in French, to find, is trouver.
2:45Trouver This is spelled T-R-O-U-V-E-R, trouver.
2:52The T-R, rather than giving us tr, which it can, most commonly gives us tr.
2:58These sounds blend together, and we get trouver, trouver.
3:03Just like in montrer, to show, like in number three, trois, T-R-O-I-S.
3:12Treasure trove, if you've heard that in English, actually means a treasure
3:16find, not a treasure hoard, as is usually thought, of course, from trouver.
3:22Treasure trove is a treasure find, rather than a hoard of treasure.
3:26So we have trouver, to find.
3:29I can't find it.
3:31I cannot find it.
3:34Je ne peux pas le trouver.
3:39Je ne peux pas le trouver.
3:43And the i sound of ne, it should sound just like je.
3:48Je, ne, le, same sound.
3:50Je ne peux pas le trouver.
3:54What was to close?
3:56A little bit like to confirm, confirmer.
4:00To close was?
4:02Fermer.
4:03Very good.
4:04Fermer, fermer, with an i rather than an i, like in confirmer.
4:09And we had to lock, which was to close to qui?
4:13Fermer, a clé.
4:15So clé was the word for key, clé.
4:18How would you say, he can't find the keys?
4:25Il ne peut pas trouver les clés.
4:31Very good.
4:32Il ne peut pas trouver les clés.
4:36And he can't find them?
4:39Il ne peut pas les trouver.
4:44Il ne peut pas les trouver.
4:48How was the marriage?
4:51Mariage.
4:52Le mariage.
4:54And the husband?
4:57Le mari.
4:59My husband can't find the keys.
5:04Mon mari ne peut pas trouver les clés.
5:09Very good.
5:10Mon mari ne peut pas trouver les clés.
5:15What was the word for house?
5:17Maisonette was a little house in English.
5:22Maison, with a z sound.
5:26We would have maisonette in French and then maison, la maison for the house.
5:33My husband cannot find the house keys.
5:36For the house keys, we would just say the keys of the house in French.
5:42My husband cannot find the house keys, the keys of the house.
5:48Mon mari ne peut pas trouver les clés de la maison.
5:58Very good.
5:59Mon mari ne peut pas trouver les clés de la maison.
6:05Very good.
6:06My husband can't find them.
6:11Mon mari ne peut pas les trouver.
6:15Mon mari ne peut pas les trouver.
Etymology
Etymology connections will appear here as they are discussed