{"id":23933,"date":"2016-07-04T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=23933"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T10:55:45","slug":"les-comptines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/les-comptines\/","title":{"rendered":"Les comptines"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my house, we sing lots of comptines<\/em>, or French nursery rhymes.<\/p>\n

I’m partial myself to\u00a0Au clair de la lune<\/em>, which coincidentally, is\u00a0the song featured on one of the earliest recordings ever made in 1860. (You can listen to it here<\/a>, although it is somewhat difficult to hear.) However, there is a simpler (and newer) song that, once it gets into your head, it gets stuck! My son is partial to this song, in particular, and often sings it during car rides. Called “Les petites poissons dans l’eau,” it features only four lines of lyrics, or\u00a0paroles:<\/em><\/p>\n

Les petits poissons dans l’eau<\/em><\/p>\n

Les petits poissons dans l’eau, nagent, nagent, nagent, nagent ,<\/em>
\nLes petits poissons dans l’eau nagent aussi bien que les grands.<\/em><\/p>\n

les grands, les petits nagent comme il faut<\/em><\/p>\n

Nager<\/em>, here conjugated in the third person plural\u00a0nagent<\/em> means “to swim.” Note that, as in many French songs and poetry, the typically silent “e” at the end of\u00a0nagent\u00a0<\/em>is pronounced. You can listen to it here:<\/p>\n