Transcript
0:00What was to find like treasure trove in English?
0:04He said the treasure trove wasn't the treasure hoard, but actually a treasure
0:08find.
0:11If you draw them blank You can just look at trove and try to make that look
0:16like a French verb and that will start taking you there Apply what you know,
0:25don't guess.
0:26What do you know about French verbs?
0:28How do most French verbs end in the to form?
0:33trover trover trover So don't guess don't be nervous When I don't think The
0:42word in my mind I get nervous Yeah, so don't do that.
0:47No, that's not gonna help you find it What's gonna help you find it is looking
0:51at what you know, you know, French verbs tend to end in er in the to form So
0:57going from trove, that's enough No, so trover to find and to look for to search
1:04is chercher chercher So this is c h e r c h e r So c h
1:14now gives us ch like in le chat the cat like in chose thing c h o s e So
1:23c h mostly gives us ch in French and here we have the same c h e r Repeated
1:29twice.
1:30No Cherchez is c h e r c h e r, but they sound different.
1:36No these two c h e r Cherchez cherchez to search to look for Cherchez cherchez
1:43Very good.
1:45What was the word for my like in my friend?
1:49Mon When you say it by itself, does it sound like mon?
1:55Mon mon good, but when you say my friend, how is my friend?
2:02Mon ami mon ami good So because ami starts with a vowel and because mon and ami
2:09my friend are very connected in meaning My friend mon ami referred to one thing
2:15this a will bring out that n as if they were one word Mon ami mon ami your
2:22friend Tonne ami tonne ami tonne ami the keys is le clé we saw Fermé a clé for
2:32example to close to key to close by key, which was to lock So le clé the keys
2:38Le clé your friend must look for the keys so Cherchez is already to look for to
2:47search for so we don't need for here Your friend has to search for the keys Tonne
2:55ami doit Cherchez le le clé.
3:00Very good.
3:01Tonne ami doit chercher le clé What was your husband?
3:08like in le mariage the marriage your husband was Tonne mari tonne mari very good.
3:18Tonne mari your wife is ta femme ta femme Ta femme ta femme.
3:24So we have ta for Your if we're referring to something feminine and my wife is
3:31ma femme ma femme ma femme So for feminine words, no, we have ma and ta rather
3:37than mon and tonne for my and your Can you look for my wife?
3:44I can't find her So the first bit can you search my wife search for but you
3:50know, we don't need the for but Cherchez ma femme.
3:58I can't find her.
4:00I cannot find her Je ne peux pas la la trouver Very
4:10good Cherchez ma femme je ne peux pas la trouver Very good.
4:18So for the negation now, we saw how in French we have ne and pa For not je ne
4:25peux pas la trouver So we saw ma femme, ta femme, my wife, your wife, and femme
4:32is literally woman.
4:35Ma femme is my woman.
4:38So femme is also the word for woman.
4:41Wife, in English, actually means the same thing.
4:43Wife is just the German word for female vibe spelled W-E-I-B.
4:49The B changed to an F as is common between German and English.
4:53How is the car, the car in French?
5:01Can you look for my car?
5:04Can you search my car?
5:13Very good.
5:14Ma, no, because we have la voiture.
5:16It's feminine.
5:17Peux-tu ou tu peux chercher ma voiture?
5:23How would you say, I can't look for the car now.
5:26I can't look for the car now.
5:29How would you say that?
5:30I can't look for the car now.
5:33Je ne peux pas chercher la voiture.
5:39No.
5:41Maintenance.
5:42It was spelled like this, no, but it sounded quite differently.
5:48Maintenance?
5:49No.
5:50Maintenance.
5:50No.
5:51All of maintenance, no, we have the I-N syllable there.
5:56Then we have the A-N-T at the end, no, all becoming un, so we get maintenant.
6:01Maintenant.
6:03Maintenant.
6:05Maintenant.
6:05So, I can't look for the car now.
6:09Je ne peux pas chercher la voiture maintenant.
6:14So, we have mon and ma, mon and ma, for masculine and feminine, my, depending
6:20on if we're referring to something masculine or feminine, or a male or female,
6:26when we say my.
6:28Maybe most non-French speakers have heard the words monsieur and madame, and
6:34although it's lost on us in the sound of monsieur, this is actually spelled
6:40like mon-sieur, very literally my sire, just with years of use, it's become
6:47monsieur, and also madame, which is of course, if we look at it, my dame, ma
6:54-dame, my lady.
6:56It's actually what Madonna means.
6:58In fact, in the Hunchback of Notre-Dame, no, Notre-Dame de Paris, of course we
7:05don't pronounce the final s of Paris, no?
7:09So, Notre-Dame, as we say in English, Notre-Dame, just means our lady, our
7:15dame, and refers to the virgin.
7:17How would you say our car?
7:22Notre voiture.
7:24Very good.
7:25Notre voiture.
7:27Notre works for both masculine and feminine nouns.
7:32So again, we have the T-R-E, like in the verb we saw, attendre, which was D-R
7:37-E, to wait, attendre, and I was talking about that R and that E all getting
7:43swallowed into the D, we can also think of it as a R sound.
7:47So, notre, for example, you can think of it as not-re, not-re, notre, notre.
7:55I have to look for our car.
7:59I have to look for our car.
8:07Very good.
8:08Je dois chercher notre voiture.
8:12What was the message?
8:14This word ends A-G-E, like village.
8:19Le message.
8:23And to send, or to envoy, literally in French, to send.
8:30Envoyer.
8:31You have to send our message.
8:34You have to send our message.
8:38Tu dois envoyer notre message.
8:43Very good.
8:44Tu dois envoyer notre message.
8:48We saw à la fête, for example, to the party, so we have A for to in this sense,
8:55no?
8:56This sense of to the party.
8:57And it also works for the sense of to my friend, like I want to send it to my
9:03friend.
9:04How would you say that?
9:05I want to send it to my friend.
9:09Je veux l'envoyer à mon ami.
9:16Very good.
9:17Je veux l'envoyer à mon ami.
9:20You must send them to our friend.
9:27You must send them l'envoyer à notre ami.
9:36Very good.
9:36But when you say l'envoyer, what's going to happen?
9:44Les envoyer.
9:46Very good.
9:47We hear the S.
9:49It reappears because of the vowel envoyer, but not just because of this, but
9:54because l' and envoyer are very connected in the meaning that they are
9:58transcribing there, to send them.
10:01And like I mentioned, in many other languages, that would be just one word, to
10:05send them.
10:06And French makes them one word in sound.
10:09Tu dois les envoyer à notre ami.
10:13Les envoyer.
10:14Les envoyer.
10:16So with l' and envoyer, we had the contraction, no?
10:21L'envoyer.
10:22And with l' and envoyer, we had the liaison, les envoyer.
10:26And it is generally the case that where we have contractions, like in l
10:31'envoyer, we'd also have liaisons occurring, like in les envoyer.
Etymology
Etymology connections will appear here as they are discussed