#Faux pas plural written movie

People go chez le coiffeur and not au coiffeur. Sentence at 0’07: Au coiffeur / chez le coiffeur The mistake appears in a scene where children are seen lined-up hiding behind a wall before one shouts: Si j’aurais su, je serais pas venu (If I had known, I would not have come) when the correct French is si j’avais su, je ne serais pas venu.

#Faux pas plural written movie

The mistake is famous for appearing in ‘ War of the Buttons’, a 1962-French movie directed by Yves Robert. Some French people confuse j’avais (the imperfect form of to have) with j’aurais (the conditional tense form of to have.) Le Gorafi also ran a satirical article on the decision from the Académie Francaise to ‘validate’ the expression. (They shouldn’t think that people don’t care) Example: ‘ Il ne faudrait pas qu’ils croivent que les gens s’en moquent.’ is wrong ‘ Il ne faudrait pas qu’ils croient que les gens s’en moquent’ is correct. The correct form is qu’ils/elles croient. No, the plural form of croire (to believe) does not take the letter -v between the letter -o and -i.

Note that is a common mistake, the word malgré is irregular and does not take an ‘s’ when plural. You may also see the word malgrés written in French. ‘70% des Français ne maitriseraient pas la langue française malgré qu’ils sont allés à l’école’ (70% of French people do not master the French language despite having gone to school.) Satirical site Le Gorafi, similar to The Daily Mash or The Onion, ran a fake study about French people and their grammar mistakes under the joke headline (to emphasis) the point: Likewise, it cannot be substituted by the French quoique (although, even though.)

However, l'Académie Française, the French council looking to uphold the French language and its rules, said the substitution in meaning between malgré que and bien que is to be avoided. Malgré que is often employed to separate, distinguish or draw a clear distinction between the first part of the sentence and what follows. It was first used in the short-novel ‘ Carmen’ by writer and historian Prosper Merimée in 1847, according to the Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales, a French organisation which publishes linguistic data and information online.įrench people use malgré que to mean bien que, alors que, dans le même temps, as an alternative way to say ‘while’.