Learn French 17: Quarante

Learning a new language is like a quirky question, you can answer only if you understand the question. Let's be quirky.

Quarante

The word quarante means the nunber forty (40).

Il y a quarante élèves dans la classe.
There are 40 students in a class.

Il faut rester chez vous pour quarante jours.
It is necessar to stay home for 40 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWe1FkLLUSI

Conversation:

Marc: Il y a combien d'élèves dans la classe?

Annie: Il y a quarante élèves dans la classe.


      The words il y a and dans have been discussed in the earlier sessions.

https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-9-il-y-a.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-4-dans.html

Culture tip:

Quarante has a connect with the word quarantine. 

The word quarantine is defined as a strict isolation, originally of 40 days of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quarantine

The words il y a and dans have been discussed in the earlier sessions.

https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-9-il-y-a.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-4-dans.html

Learn French 13: Marché

Learning a new language is like looking for something new. You never know what you will get.
Let's start.

Marché - Market

This is a very common word.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7SYOD9eTQ

Je vais au marché
I go to the market.

Le marché se trouve au centre-ville.
The market is in the centre of the city.

J'achète des fruits et légumes au marché.
I buy fruits and vegetables at the market.


In France, going to the market is an important part of weekend routine.The French look forward to the Sunday market. Chef along with assistants go to the market to buy the freshest fruits and vegetables.

Culture tip:
Paris was one of the first European cites to implement a system of formal, centralized and covered market places. Les Halles, a vast centralized wholesale market, was known to be in existence at least by the 13th century. The French system of organised, designated central retail markets was extensively studied by architects in London with a view to emulating the system and ultimately eradicating the informal supply of produce via street vendors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace

French Class 9: Il y a

Learning a new language is like waking up early and doing an extra task. Here is a new word is at your behest

Il y a - there is/there are
This phrase is used often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdUIYyw5e4

Il y a is a phrase.
It means there is or there are.
The words il, y, and a have individual meanings.
il - he/it
y - there
a - has
We collectively use it as a phrase here.

It also means it has been.
Here the examples discussed are w.r.t there is or there are.

Il y a un hôtel près d'ici.
There is a hotel near by/close by.

Il y a beaucoup d'étudiants dans la classe.
There are many students in the class.

Il y a un bon café au centre-ville.
There is a good café in the centre of the city.

Some words here have been discussed earlier.
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-8-hotel.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-5-etudiant.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-4-dans.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-3-cafe.html
https://srishtirajeev.blogspot.com/2020/04/french-class-2-bonjour.html

Next time you want to say there is, use this phrase.
The word Voilà is also used to say there is.


Culture tip:

The Louvre, located in Paris, France, is the largest art museum in the world with an area size of 782,910 square feet. This museum is considered a historic monument in Paris and is part of the Louvre Palace, which was built in the 12th century.Today, it is home to around 38,000 pieces of art. The Louvre is also the most visited museum in the world, receiving 7.4 million visitors every year.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-art-museums-in-the-world.html

French Class 4: Dans

Bonjour! Learning a new language is like dancing. One step at at time, each one in sync with the other. Let's roll!

Dans means in. It is a preposition. It show the relation between 2 nouns.

J'habite is a phrase used here. J'habite means I stay.

J'habite dans un appartement.

J'habite dans une maison.

                                        

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqI87diVCfM

                                 

un appartement - an apartment

une maison - a house

J'habite dans un appartement - I stay in an apartment.

J'habite dans une maison - I stay in a house.

Conversation: 

Marc: Bonjour, je m'appelle Marc. Et vous?

Annie: Bonjour, je m'appelle Annie.

Marc: J'habite dans une maison. Et vous?

Annie: J'habite dans un appartement.

...

Marc: Bonne soirée Annie

Annie: Bonne soirée Marc.

Vocabulary is as important to a language as grammar. As children, we picked up new words that eventually led to sentences. Happy learning!

Culture tip:

The apartment culture which is an integral part of today's housing options came from Paris. 

Paris embraced the apartment in 1800's. It was initially called "Parisian flats" by the Americans who came to Paris for their cultural education.

Throughout the nineteenth century "the apartment house" dominated Parisian urban landscape.

Two reasons were primarily identified for its success:

1. Apartments provided spatially compact housing in a city with increasing population.

2. Apartments provided opportunity for investing in relatively inexpensive and profitable properties.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/american-apartments-came-from-paris/381590/

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