Monday, April 12, 2010

Past tense reflexive verbs

In the imperfait, reflexive verbs take être as their auxiliary verb; consequently the past participle needs to agree with the subject, as with other être verbs.

Je me suis dit - I told myself.

But compare the ordinary use of imperfait with a non-être verb:

J'ai lui dit - I told him.

Other examples:

Je me suis réveillé (e)


Nous nous sommes réveillé(e)s

Tu t'es réveillé (e)


Vous vous êtes réveillé (e) (s)

Il s'est réveillé


Ils se sont réveillés

Elle s'est réveillée


Elles se sont réveillées

On s'est réveillé

Plus reflexive verbs en francais.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un m'a dit



Elle est l'épouse de Nicolas Sarkozy, Président de la France.

Lyrics

On me dit que nos vies ne valent pas grand chose,
Elles passent en un instant comme fanent les roses.
On me dit que le temps qui glisse est un salaud
que de nos chagrins il s'en fait des manteaux
pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit...

Someone tells me that our life is not worth much,
It passes in an instant as the rose fades.
Someone tells me that the passing time is a bastard
as our sorrows, he makes coats (???)
But someone told me ...

Refrain

Que tu m'aimais encore,
C'est quelqu'un qui m'a dit que tu m'aimais encore.
Serais ce possible alors ?

That you still loved me
Someone told me that you still loved me.
Could that be possible?

On me dit que le destin se moque bien de nous
Qu'il ne nous donne rien et qu'il nous promet tout
Parais qu'le bonheur est à portée de main,
Alors on tend la main et on se retrouve fou
Pourtant quelqu'un m'a dit ...

They tell me that destiny makes fun of us
It gives us nothing and promises us everything
That happiness is within reach,
So we reach out, and we find ourselves crazy
While someone told me ..

Refrain

Mais qui est ce qui m'a dit que toujours tu m'aimais?
Je ne me souviens plus c'était tard dans la nuit,
J'entend encore la voix, mais je ne vois plus les traits
"Il vous aime, c'est secret, lui dites pas que j'vous l'ai dit"
Tu vois quelqu'un m'a dit...

But who is it that told me that you still loved me?
I don't remember any more if it was late at night,
I still hear the voice, but I do not see the face
"He loves you, it is a secret, and do not tell him that I told you"
You see someone told me ...



Que tu m'aimais encore, me l'a t'on vraiment dit...
Que tu m'aimais encore, serais ce possible alors ?


That you still loved me someone truly said ...
That you still loved me, could this be?

Friday, April 9, 2010

Je sais pas - Celine Dion



Paroles et musique: Jean-Jacques Goldman

De tourner des rivires, porter des poids
Traverser des mers, je saurai faire

Turn away the rivers, carry the load
Cross the seas, so I would know

De fier des machines, narguer des lois
Les foudres divines, ces m'effraie pas

The pride of machines, flouting the laws
God's wrath, don't scare me at all

Je sais prendre un coup, le rendre aussi
River des clous, ca j'ai appris

I know how to take a hit, and give it back
To hammer some nails, that I have learned)

Je pas victime, je pas colombe
Et pour qu'on m'abîme, faut que je tombe

I'm no victim, I'm no dove
And to break me, I have to fail

Je sais les hivers, je sais le froid
Mais la vie sans toi, je sais pas

I know the winter, I know the cold
But life without you, I don't know

Je savais le silence depuis longtemps
J'en sais la violence, son goût de sang

I knew the silence, for a long time
I know it's violence, it's blood taste

Rouges colère, sombres douleurs
Je sais ces guerres, j'en ai pas peur

Hot anger, shadows of sorrow
I know these wars, I am not afraid

Je sais me défendre, j'ai bien appris
On est pas des tendres par ici

I can defend myself, I learned well
One can't be tender here

Je sais les hivers, je sais le froid
Mais la vie sans toi, je sais pas

I know the winter, I know the cold
But life without you, I don't know

Lutte apres lutte, pire après pire
Chaque minute, j'ai cru tenir

Fight after fight, worst after worst
Each minute, I thought I could keep

Je voudrais apprendre jour après jour
Mais qui commande a nos amours

I wanted to learn day after day
But who commands our love

Je sais les hivers, je sais le froid
Mais la vie sans toi, je sais pas

I know the winters, I know the cold
But life without you, I don't know

Je sais pas
Je sais pas

I don't know
I don't know

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

VEVO

Vevo has better videos than I do. Vevo is an online music video website developed and hosted by YouTube, Sony, and Google. I am obsolete or will be shortly.

Amel Bent avec VEVO

Ma philosophie - Amel Bent



I have a philosophy
Be accepted as I am
Despite all that is said
I still raise a fist
For better or worse
I am Mestisos not a martyr
I walk inside the light
But always raise a fist

Raise my head, shake my body
Constantly redouble efforts
Life does not give me a choice
I'm the ace that beats king
Despite our troubles, our differences
And all these incessant insults
I will raise my fist
Even higher, further

(Refrain:)
Targeting the Moon
It does not scare me
Even wear
I still believe and heart
Sacrifices
If necessary I will do it
I have already done it
But always raise my fist

I'm not like all these girls
As they stare, as they undress
I have shapes and curves
It is used to warm the hearts
The daughter of a popular neighborhood
I learned to be proud
Much more love than misery
Although most of that heart of stone

I have a philosophy
Be accepted as I am
With the strength and smile
The fist raised towards the future
Raise the head, torso bomber
Constantly redouble efforts
Life does not give me choice
I'm the ace who beats the king

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mariage

Une femme dit à son mari:

- "Demain, fête ses 30 ans de marriage.Sur les circonstances, nous devions tuer le cochon?

- Pourquoi?
répondit le mari n'est pas sa faute! "

Internaute

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Lost in translation

When he wrote Life on the Mississippi in 1876, Mark Twain was not an old man. At the age of 41, he was not even fully mature.`But his memoir of his days on the Mississippi as a river boat captain were the musings of one who knew life. Someone who, in his own words, had "mastered the language of the water [the Mississippi] and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet..."

Age brings both wisdom and sadness. A sadness that professionalism eliminates a youthful sense of wonder at the newness of the world and all its mysteries. For Mark Twain the grace, beauty, and poetry of the river became currents, depths and weather. And his loss was the loss of marveling at sunset at seeing colors of sun and water - reflections, golden hues turning red, sparkling eddies dancing like so many ballerinas, waves fanning out in radiating lines and circles. With time and knowledge, sun and water become a banal sign there would be wind tomorrow.

Twain wondered, as I often have, whether we who learn a trade gain or lose more in the bargain. Love which in its youth is a burning flame becomes a faint and dying ember.