{"id":30339,"date":"2018-05-23T20:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=30339"},"modified":"2018-05-23T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T18:14:55","slug":"learning-three-new-words-from-one-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/learning-three-new-words-from-one-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning 3 New Words From 1 Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hier <\/strong>(yesterday), summer weather<\/a> stormed through Paris and it started pouring during the humid afternoon. Le temps<\/strong> (the weather) may seem like nothing but small talk, but it ended up teaching me trois nouveaux mots<\/strong> (three new words)!<\/p>\n

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It was a dark and stormy apr\u00e8s-midi<\/strong> (afternoon) when it started happening. I turned to mon coll\u00e8gue<\/strong><\/a> and said:<\/p>\n

Il pleut des gla\u00e7ons !<\/strong>
\nIt’s raining ice cubes!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That got a nice reaction and after le rire<\/strong><\/a> (the laughter) subsided, mon coll\u00e8gue<\/strong> told me:<\/p>\n

Non, non, c’est la gr\u00eale.<\/strong>
\nNo, no, it’s hail.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I nodded and tried to correct myself:<\/p>\n

Il pleut la gr\u00eale !<\/strong>
\nIt’s raining hail!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My mistake understandably resulted in more laughter from mon coll\u00e8gue<\/strong> who corrected me again:<\/p>\n

Non, non, non… Le verbe est gr\u00ealer !<\/strong>
\nNo, no, no… The verb is to hail!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Voil\u00e0 !<\/strong> Finally I knew what to say. With some newly restored confidence I turned to mon coll\u00e8gue<\/strong> again and looked them dans les yeux<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Il gr\u00eale !<\/strong>
\nIt’s hailing!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mon coll\u00e8gue<\/strong> smiled and after looking out la fen\u00eatre<\/strong><\/a> (the window) to watch the summer weather storming outside, we soon went back to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Later, I wanted to make sure I remembered how to say les nouveaux mots<\/strong> to avoid making the same mistakes twice. That’s when I discovered yet another word that makes remembering les genres des mots<\/strong><\/a> (the gender of the words) a little harder. There’s a word connected to la gr\u00eale<\/strong><\/em>, but it’s un mot masculin<\/strong> (a masculine word) this time:<\/p>\n

Le gr\u00ealon<\/strong> – Hailstone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From une seule faute<\/a><\/strong> (only one mistake) I learned trois nouveaux mots !<\/strong><\/p>\n

La gr\u00eale<\/a><\/strong> – Hail
\nGr\u00ealer <\/strong>– To hail
\nLe gr\u00ealon<\/strong> – Hailstone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Hier (yesterday), summer weather stormed through Paris and it started pouring during the humid afternoon. Le temps (the weather) may seem like nothing but small talk, but it ended up teaching me trois nouveaux mots (three new words)! It was a dark and stormy apr\u00e8s-midi (afternoon) when it started happening. I turned to mon coll\u00e8gue…<\/p>\n

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