{"id":30551,"date":"2018-07-31T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=30551"},"modified":"2018-07-22T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T00:02:22","slug":"on-a-wing-and-a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/on-a-wing-and-a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"On a wing and a prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I wrote a post<\/a> about contemporary musicals in France. One of the songs featured got me thinking about the word\u00a0ailes <\/strong>(wings)<\/em> and all the things that fly – or don’t! – with wings.<\/p>\n

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Aile<\/strong> (wing)<\/em><\/p>\n

Before we get to the song, a few examples of the different ways the word\u00a0aile\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>can be used (along with some useful vocabulary for things that have\u00a0ailes<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Fran\u00e7ais<\/b><\/th>English<\/i><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
une aile<\/b>
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a wing<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
ailes<\/b>
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wings<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
avion<\/b>
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airplane<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
voler<\/b>
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to fly<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

<\/div><\/div><\/div>Les avions<\/a> ont des ailes.**\u00a0<\/strong>[Planes have wings.]<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div><\/div>Les oiseaux ont des ailes aussi.\u00a0<\/strong>[Birds have wings too.]<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/strong>Un b\u00e2timent peut avoir une (ou m\u00eame plusieurs) aile(s).\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>[A building can have a (or even a few) wing(s).]<\/em><\/p>\n

J’aime bien voler<\/a> en avion. <\/strong>[I love flying in planes.]<\/em><\/p>\n