{"id":32299,"date":"2020-09-15T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=32299"},"modified":"2020-09-10T03:13:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T01:13:29","slug":"french-vocabulary-here-there-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-vocabulary-here-there-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"French Vocabulary – Here, There, & Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I linked to a post about the differences between encore<\/em> and toujours<\/em><\/a>. It got me thinking about other words in French that you can use for things that are frequent.<\/p>\n

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Here, there, & everywhere<\/strong>1<\/a><\/sup>Did you know that the ampersand (&, called une esperluette<\/em> in French) comes from the merging of the e<\/em> and t<\/em> in the word et\/and<\/em>?!! Click<\/a> to see the names of other signes de ponctuation en fran\u00e7ais.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Partout<\/strong><\/p>\n

When something isn\u2019t just happening i\u00e7i<\/strong> (here<\/em>) or l\u00e0-bas<\/strong> (there<\/em>) but is happening everywhere,<\/em> then it is happening partout. <\/strong><\/p>\n

C\u2019est incroyable comme les gens sont\u00a0<\/strong>partout\u00a0<\/strong>sur leur portable aujourd\u2019hui, m\u00eame au th\u00e9\u00e2tre ! <\/strong>\/ It\u2019s crazy how people are on their mobile phones everywhere today, even in the theater!<\/em><\/p>\n

The expression passe-partout<\/strong> can be an adjective that means can go anywhere<\/em> (or is appropriate anywhere<\/em>) or a noun referring to a key that opens many different locks. It is also a tv show for kids in Quebec<\/a> and, with his partners Passe-Muraille and Passe-Temps, one of the recurring characters on Fort Boyard<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Tout le monde<\/strong><\/p>\n

If eveyone <\/em>is doing something, not just moi<\/strong> (me<\/em>), or toi<\/strong> (you<\/em>), elle ou lui<\/strong> (her or him<\/em>) then tout le monde le fait<\/strong> (everyone is doing it<\/em>)!<\/p>\n

Tout le monde est pr\u00eat\u00a0? <\/strong>\/ Is everybody ready\u00a0?<\/em><\/p>\n

Tout le monde aime les frites.<\/strong> \/ Everyone loves French Fries. <\/em>2<\/a><\/sup>Which everyone also knows are not actually French, but Belge<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

But what if no one is ready \u2026 or worse, no one likes French Fries?!!<\/p>\n

Personne<\/strong><\/p>\n

Personnne<\/strong> is a very flexible word in French. It can mean one thing \u2026 and the opposite! As a noun, personne<\/strong> means person, <\/em>or individual<\/em> \u2026 as in Il y a deux personnes \u00e0 la porte<\/strong> (There are two people at the door.)<\/em> or J\u2019aimerais une table pour quatre personnes<\/strong> (I would like a table for four people)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But as a pronoun, personne <\/strong>means no one, anyone, or anybody.<\/em> Je suis arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019heure, mais il n\u2019y avait personne l\u00e0 <\/strong>(I arrived on time, but there was no one \/ there wasn\u2019t anybody there.)<\/em> Or Personne est venue au match \u00e0 cause de la pluie <\/strong>(No one came to the game because of the rain.)<\/em> Or Personne aime les frites.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Want to go further? Here are some other posts you can review to see other useful expressions related to where and when things are happening:
\nWhere and When<\/a>
\nHere and Now<\/a><\/div>\n

Photo by\u00a0slon_dot_pics<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Pexels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n