Building funny French phrases is a way to learn more vocabulary and even improve your grammar. The challenge lies in finding a root word and then expressing the same word as a noun, adverb, verb and adjective all in the same sentence. Here are some examples:
La commode commode a été accommodée commodément.
Le commentateur a commenté comment ce commentaire aussi commenté?
Les enthousiastes enthousiasment avec enthousiasme l’enthousiasme enthousiasmant.
La traîtresse traître trahit traîtreusement.
Mais, attention! Just as in English, the sentences you make this way would probably not be expressed in French like this, although technically/grammatically it is possible (that’s what makes them funny). Moreover, all four parts of speech can not necessarily be found with all root words. Here is a table with some nouns and their corresponding adverbs, verbs and adjectives.
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NOUN
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VERB
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ADJECTIVE
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ADVERB
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un commentaire / un commentateur
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commenter
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commenté(e)
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comment
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une commode / la commodité
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accommoder
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commode
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commodément
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l’enthousiasme / un enthousiaste
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enthousiasmer
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enthousiasmant / enthousiaste
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avec enthousiasme
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une généralité / une généralisation
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généraliser
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général(e)
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généralement
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une manifestation / un manifestant(e)
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manifester
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manifeste
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manifestement
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la ponctualité
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——-
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ponctuel(le)
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ponctuellement
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une rationalisation / le rationalisme / la rationalité
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rationaliser
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rationnel(le) / rationaliste
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rationnellement
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un scandale
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scandaliser
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scandaleux(euse)
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——–
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un(e) traître / une traîtresse / une trahison
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trahir
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traître
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traîtreusement
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Now, why don’t you try coming up with your own funny French sentence in this way and share it with us in a comment! This will help us all learn more vocabulary.
Comments:
kate hindell:
Hi, are there any publications (online or other) which have a good grid of French words with common roots?
Thanks