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[rwd716]

Originally Posted by garçoncanadien

hmmmm je ne sais pas. Peut-être qu'il va falloir dire merci beaucoup toute la lune

As a help to those of us who are trying to grasp French, could you translate. About all I can understand is: I don't something Blah blah blah...thanks very much moon-men. LOL

[Seapaddler]

Peut-être means perhaps
qu'il means that it or that he
va means go
falloir means needed (i think)
dire means to say

"perhaps that it is going to be needed to say"

[HibyPrime]

Originally Posted by rwd716

As a help to those of us who are trying to grasp French, could you translate. About all I can understand is: I don't something Blah blah blah...thanks very much moon-men. LOL

hmmmm je ne sais pas. Peut-être qu'il va falloir dire merci beaucoup toute la lune

I dont know. Perhaps it will be necessary to say thank you very much moon-men (lol moon-men)

[rwd716]

So sais means know? Thanks Sea and Hiby. Now that I think about it i prolly coulda looked this up, but I'm currently trapped on this site

[garçoncanadien]

merci beaucoup tout le univers should cover us for the next few billion years

no that should say tout l'univers

As a help to those of us who are trying to grasp French, could you translate. About all I can understand is: I don't something Blah blah blah...thanks very much moon-men. LOL

Perhaps it will be necessary to say thank you very much moon-men

That translation is exactly right in the beginning, I said "I don't know".

So sais means know? Thanks Sea and Hiby. Now that I think about it i prolly coulda looked this up, but I'm currently trapped on this site

That is exactly right, it is the Je conjugation of savoir, to know.

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by Cooney

When verbally spelling a word that contains accents, how would one speak them?

When spelling a "é" you say "e accent aigu" and sometimes just "é" (sounds a bit like "ay"). It's the exception, all others are always said "the letter + accent type".
- è : "e accent grave"
- ï : "i trémas"
- û : "u accent circonflexe"
- ç : "c cédille"

[Cooney]

Ok, so you actually say the word "accent" when spelling it. Fair enough :-)

I'd never ceen a circumflex (circonflexe) referred to with the word "accent" on it, I've always heard it just by itself. I'm glad you used that example! :-)

The trémas is fairly rare in French, isn't it? I'd completely forgotten it existed in French at all until a couple days ago when I saw a word with it and it surprised me.

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For those who were working on:
"hmmmm je ne sais pas. Peut-être qu'il va falloir dire merci beaucoup toute la lune"

"Hmmm, I don't know. Maybe it'll be necessary to say thanks very much all-the-moon"

"Toute la lune" is hard to translate literally. "Toute la monde" literally translates as "all the world," but it means "everybody" in speech. To say "toute la lune" would be unnecessary, I think, though it might be usable in jest, or in a nationalistic (planetalistic?) sense - all moonpeople.

[garçoncanadien]

mdrrrrr Cooney c'était une blague!! je ne sais pas si l'on a vraiment cette phrase en français. je l'ai inventée.

[Rocket]

'i' before 'e' except after 'c'. Except for words like THEIR then it all goes out the window.

[RMJ]

Originally Posted by Cooney

The trémas is fairly rare in French, isn't it? I'd completely forgotten it existed in French at all until a couple days ago when I saw a word with it and it

Rare maybe, but common enough that even I know words with trémas. And my vocabulary isn't good.

Noël
Naïve
Loïc (name)