There is no "enjoy" in French? No problem. Let's make it do ourselves. *Enjoyer* it is.

This is why English has so many "loan words". If we don't have our own word, we just use someone else's.

Bon matin existe au Québec malgré le fait que c’est un anglicisme

The french word I miss the most in english is "chez". Chez moi" or "chez ma tante" is much more practicle than saying "At my place" or "at my aunt's place".

Another one, in French we don’t have a word to say « both », you just say « les deux » which means « the two of them »

I'm a french acadian and we do say ''Bon matin''

Yeah, I've often noticed that "sibling(s)" is missing in French. It's a bit awkward to say frère(s) et soeur(s) each time you want to express that concept. I guess there are lots of missing terms in English too. I like this one: l'esprit de l'escalier (stairway wit). It’s said when you think of the perfect reply too late, after the fact...when you're halfway down the stairs.

I'd say "enjoy" is "apprécier" and "creepy" is "flippant" personally 🤔

"Malaisant" est un équivalent de cringy, en tout cas en ce moment.

A totally different language but in turkish I love the fact that grand-father and Grand-mother, aunties ans uncles is a different word depending if it is from your mother's side or father's. This way you straightaway know to Who you are referont to!

When I was living in France, an English teacher I worked with said she loved the connotation of “will” as a future-tense auxiliary in English. English and French both have ways to say “I will” or “I'm going to” (future antérieur et futur proche), but she felt that “will” in English carries more of an intentionality to it, as if the person is more determined to do something. That connotation comes from Old English, when “will” and “would” were used as action verbs meaning “to wish”, which no one says anymore (“I will that my mother is well”/“I would that she leave me alone”). You'd only ever hear that in Shakespeare plays and other classic literature from centuries ago. You very occasionally see “will” as an action verb meaning “to bequeath” (“My late grandfather willed me his war medallion”) but that's a different usage. Anyway, back to the idea of “will” and “going to” talking about the future: I'd guess that most Anglophones would say the two are interchangeable. It might be something very subtle that we don't notice, something we think is the same but that actually makes us think someone is still learning the language if they choose the wrong one. I'm not sure. I just thought it was an interesting observation.

Prospère sounds more like prosperous just by the sound of the word.

Mais j'utilise "bon marché" et pourtant je ne suis pas vieille 😢

The one that really bugs me is "brittle". You're stuck with "fragile" which doesn't describe things that are strong but can snap. Whereas fragile things are necessarily not strong at all.

I personally found it hard to find a french equivalent for “awkward”. In Canada/North America, the word “awkward” can be applied to a variety of situations and personalities - even in an endearing manner. I just haven’t quite found a similar word for that in French :(.

It sounds like a mean joke: "There's no word for 'enjoy' in French." No, really! 😄

I just finished the 4th french class i take in university and I just found your channel and I’m learning so much in this one hour of me scrolling through youtube at 3 am, and maybe it’s even more than I’ve learned in class. I’m going to France in spring break and I’m so exciting now that I’m learning more spoken french! ❤️

Whenever i do the french R pronunciation, my acid reflux worsens lol. But I really like their R .

Love your videos! I still can’t accept the fact that in French, the words “mother-in-law” and “stepmother” are both translated as “belle-mère”. Every time my (English speaking) French friend tells me a story (in French) and the word “belle-mère” comes up, I would have to confirm back with him, whether he was talking about his stepmother or his mother-in-law (because he has both). Ça me gêne un peu 🤔

One word that my Parisian friend and I were talking about is skyline. Because in French you would say « l’horizon », but that doesn’t really get at the artificial nature of the word. So we came up with « le découpé de gratte-ciels » :)

The verb “to floss” doesn’t exist either in French.

The word I miss in English is a gender specific word for cousin.

The odd thing about not having a French word for 'enjoy' is that basically it IS a French word :-).

Il existe cependant plusieurs traductions aux mots que tu as mentionnés, en voici quelques unes: Good morning: Bon matin Cheap: Bon marché, abordable, économique Sleepy: Somnolent Successful: Fructueux, prospère, efficace Creepy : Sinistre, Glauque To Cringe: Grimacer Enjoy: Apprécier, jouir, aimer, bénéficier, savourer, déguster, profiter Est-ce que vous êtes d’accord ?

This is lovely. It is very good for amplifying a student's understanding as they try to learn a language. Also the instructor speaks beautifully. I just enjoy listening even though I am not French! 😂

1:06 We only have "cher", "pas cher". That explains the prices in France and Switzerland XD.

As a French learner this video definitely helped me a lot when It comes to these words especially “enjoy, sounds like and shallow” . Merci pour cette vidéo pour que les mots ne me dérangent plus!

Holy crap, you're the second French channel that I actually like. You're up front about modern french terms that exist and don't exist. Unlike some other channels.

Au Québec, en plus de “bon marché”, nous utilisons le terme “abordable” pour dire “pas cher”.

You don’t have the word “ to like”. In French we can only love everything, lol!!! What a good strategy, way to think positive, France!

This cleared up a lot of things for me. Merci!

This is so helpful! I moved to France and had not been able to figure out how to translate several of these things properly from English. At least now I know it's not just me.

"Bon matin" doesn't exist in France? It's as ubiquitous as "good morning" in Canadian French...

Excited! As in “I’m excited to go to the park” or something like that. It’s such a common mistake for English speaking students to say “je suis excité” and not realize that that does NOT mean what they think it means. I’ve not heard a word that can concisely sum up the feeling of being excited in a non sexual manner-does anyone else have a translation for this word?

Thank you for the pertinent video. Since you asked.... American hippie slang sometimes features the adjective "heavy," which can be understood to mean "serious" or "important" (or "consequential"). Soon after I moved to a Francophone society, I learned that trying to communicate the American hippie adjective "heavy" by saying "lourd" is awkward and misleading. Still slightly awkward--but, likely, not misleading--could be to say, "avoir des conséquences," or, "à ne pas ignorer."

I was looking for someone that teaches french like you and finally I found you 😌 thanks ur way is really good.

sleepy is somnolent and in spanish "Somnoliento/a"

Maybe someone already mentioned it but there's also the word "both" which doesn't have equivalent in French. According to the sentences, we will translate it by "à la fois" or "les deux".

These are so true! Both English and French were my first languages, but because most of the people I speak French with also speak English, we jump back and forth between them, so it's hard to notice these 'missing' words. I wish there was an English word closer to démodé. Like you can say 'oh that shirt was so last season' but it's not really natural to say that a shirt is outdated/old fashioned in English, especially if the shirt isn't at least 10+ years old. My mom and I always use démodé, even if the rest of the conversation is in English.

this reminds me of my French colleagues when I asked them what the word for "food" is in French and it took them a good five minutes to figure it out, because "nourriture" is used so rarely compared to "to eat" etc.

Hi Maia, I would love to thank you for all you do here in your awesome channel trying to teach us French the way it is spoken in France. I really appreciate it. I just wanted to point out a little misspelling on this video for the synonym of the word cheap.There is no English word as "unexpensive"; I think there has been a misspelling there. It should have been spelled as "inexpensive." Thanks again for your excellent channel. Merci.

I've been told it's funny we don't have a word for ''to bake'' since we (french people) bake a lot^^... cuire au four? faire des gâteaux? ''hang out'' ?? passer du temps avec quelqu'un ? se voir? ''design''... il a bien ''concevoir /conception'' mais il y a moins cette idée d'esthétisme ''cheekbones''.. euuh des os de joue? des pommettes? mais les pommettes c'est pas les os en tant que tels ''to ride'' ... chevaucher ? lol.. ça marche pas pour un vélo ou une moto..

As an American living in France, the thing I struggle with is the fact that French doesn't really have a way to express excitement. There's d'être ravi(e), but it's not really the same thing. My friends and I joke that the French are too cool to get excited.

All this was fascinating, but I happened to glance to the right and saw the cushion cover which is exactly like the two I have in my little bungalow in England. Ikea? Incroyable!

"creepy" peut se dire flippant je pense ? idk

C'est drôle, j'avais commencé une liste de mots anglais "intraduisibles" ou difficilement traduisibles. En voici quelques uns. Pour certains il s'agit de certains emplois particuliers de ces mots. Stalker Bully Badass Self-righteous Patronising (quand on cache sa condescendance derrière un compliment par exemple) Feature (le verbe) Care Sake Loose (à ne pas confondre avec lose, perdre) Sassy Challenging Upset (qui recouvre tellement de sens!) Rewarding Fancy Embrace Credit (give him credit)

Fascinating. Thanks!

Very informative, subscribed!

I think it's so funny that enjoy is such an English word now, and there is no modern French equivalent, when Middle English borrowed the word "enjoy" from Old French enjoier/anjoier/enjoer and also the word "joy" from French "joie."

In Dutch "cheap" is "goedkoop" its pretty much a direct translation of "bon marché"

Tu m’as bien surpris avec des mots qui existent en anglais, mais qui n’ont pas d’équivalent en français. J’ai trouvé ce sujet vachement inter. Merci beaucoup encore une fois...

Enjoy: late Middle English: from Old French enjoier ‘give joy to’ or enjoïr ‘enjoy’, both based on Latin gaudere ‘rejoice’.

Hi. I really enjoy :) your videos! And my question is: doesn't "jouir de quelque chose" means "to enjoy"?

If you want these, you can have them. That's what makes English so powerful: if it wants a word, it just takes it. The pronunciation and spelling are slightly modified, and that's it; new word. French should start doing this too.

Another interesting video. I wish I knew about you when I was still teaching French. I'm now retired after 30 years.

Vidéo sympathique et intéressante. Merci.

Hey, great video but just so you know: - "it sounds like" --> "ça sonne comme" is generally accepted for songs and music - "to cringe, cringy" --> grimacer, grimaçant Also, "bon matin" should exist and I even say it all the time :)

I had the same reaction you did when I started working as a translator and realized there was no French word for "successful". It's the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of your video and I'm glad to see you mentioned it.

I find you really engaging to watch!

As far as sound verses appearance thing goes, in English people often say “look” when they want to clarify something. When talking on the phone you might hear “look, I want it sent to my business address, not my home”, when the interjection should be “listen”.

I have struggle finding an equivalent for "Regarding" as in while writing subject for an email, like: Regarding Next Appointment, Regarding Recent Application, Regarding Voldemort's Missing Nose etc.

1:39 want to sleep = somnolente 2:57 A word used by young = Flippant (idk why) 3:25 In French we used a word “not specific” but “specific” idk how to describe it >~< Avez vous des proches ? Do you have some family/friends ? Pour Cringy a new word is used by young (yes French use/create actually new word) It’s too cringy now C’est trop malaisant (This word is used to say you don’t feel good ;-;) And yes we need to create a word for Enjoy but I don’t feel it will create because people love variety in there word then if you have 1000 ways to say enjoy it good ? That stupide 😅 Pour répondre à certain mots qui n’existe pas ou n’ont pas de précision précise on utilise dés expressions (que je déteste toujours autant >~

A couple of English universal words that don't seem to exist are "off" and "on". Every context for "off" and "on" seem to have a different word. The save with the verb "to get". "Get" is kind of a "catch all" word. I've also seen where English words are adopted into French, like "Stop, Parking, Weekend, etc." Once on a French cop show a cop was talking on the radio and she said, "Ok, standby". And when chasing a suspect the cop yelled "Stop!" instead of "Arrêtez!"

Thanks very much. Yes, I'll subscribe. Your content and presentation is very good.

are there words in french that don't exist in english?

How about the word "full" as in "I'm full" after eating? I've always said it "j'ai bien mangé" which translates to "I have eaten well" which sounds more polite than "I'm full".

J'ai réfléchi à la remarque sur ressembler. En effet on utilise ressembler dans toutes les situations mais c'est parceque la définition du mot nous le permet. Tu as donné les exemples des situations visuelles et sonores mais c'est valable pour tout ! On va dire ça ressemble à du poulet (alors qu'en anglais it tastes like chiken) ou ca ressemble à de la fourrure (pour le toucher) etc. Encore une fois il s'agit d'une façon de s'exprimer. Il y a des qui utiliseraient d'autres mots exemple: ça à le même goût que du poulet, etc.

I think this was a great videos because not a lot of people know that. The first word that i was confused about and didnt know that was not used or unheard of was bonne matin.

We have the word "siblings" but we usually say the same thing you do. "Do you have any brothers and/or sisters?"

What really bothers me is that in French there is no word for nuts. You alsways have to say the specific kind of nut like noisette or noix or cacahuète but you cant say nuts in general. Of course there is fruits sécs/ séchés but that also includes litteral dried fruit like raisins. (I really don’t even get why nuts are considered fruits sécs in the first place) Anyway this annoyed me quite often when I was living in France

Mind blowing!

Incroyable, merci beaucoup 😍😊

Do you have a word equivalent to manager / supervisor in French? Curious...

Siblings = fraterie J’avoue qu’on utilise très peu fraterie/sororité au jour le jour !

Thank you!

Thanks for this. A mistake that many Anglophones (including me) make is to use awkward translations for words that don’t exist in French. To speak speak French authentically, you have to use the pallet given.

There are French words that don't exist in English. eg--- Terroir. Associated primarily about wine. In English it requires a long sentence or even a book. LOL

But enjoy comes from old French 'enjoier' (to give joy)!

In British English most people would ask 'do you have any brothers or sisters?', we could use the word siblings, but we rarely do.

Merci, j'ai appris plein de choses.

In french, there's no word for "quaint." It's such a weird mix of traits that makes something quaint, and it's frustrating to try and describe a quaint thing with synonyms

Omg, Bonmarché is a clothes shop in UK. Lol.

Many years ago, my sister found a full book just on words unique to various languages, a collection of untranslatables that were exquisitely explained. Anybody heard about it?

Tu m'apprend beaucoup de choses :) merci beaucoup :D

"To sound like" on peut dire "sonner" exemple : ce mot sonne un peu comme un mot anglais...

Creepy means that you’re both weirded out and a afraid or nervous at the same time.

I'm not surprised, as I've struggled with some concepts when speaking French. 'Enjoy' is one, and 'profitez bien' to me doesn't carry the same sense of fun. FUN! There's no exact noun or adjective 'fun', as in 'did you have fun, let's go somewhere fun, etc. It was fun. He's a fun guy. I guess you'd use 'amusant/amusé'. A French colleague had already pointed out that there's no word 'sibling' in French. So is the phrase 'sibling rivalry' from psychology translated as "la rivalité des freres et des soeurs?" Thanks for your video - really enjoyable.

I also like your "it sounds good" example. In Québec I have heard the anglicisme "ça sonne bien." Mais it's wrong, of course. "Sounds good" has no really French equivalent, it's true.

In England the word "dear" also means expensive, like "chere" which is almost "cher".

"I'm getting a new cousin" when gender is unknown or doesn't matter

I really enjoyed this video...

My favorite words in any language is the words I love you. Happy feelings are the best. I enjoy those from other places. How close is it still to creole?. I found a Cajun dude on my cb radio at home. Live the life folks.

traduction i miss you : c'est inversé : tu me manques

Hi ! For "creepy", i would translate "flippant".

Très utile ❤merci

I really like the recent phrase 'secondhand embarrassment,' which is the concept of feeling quite mortified (or cringing!) on behalf of someone else. When their behaviour or words are so outlandish or rude that you acutely feel the heat haze of embarrassment as it emanates from them to you. I don't know if there's a French equivalent for that but it's very much a feeling, sort of like being dragged into someone's mess just by witnessing it. Or feeling the forward burn they'd get because of the backlash.

Bon matin se dit au Canada ;)

The word "Home" is also not found. This world is my home. It feels like home.

In Bourgogne, people say "Bonjour" when you go into a baker's or other shop at 7 am and then say "Bonsoir" as you leave 2 minutes later. I've never understood why but it is a regional trait.

-Pour cheap il y a un mot en français mais on ne l'utilise plus depuis trèèès longtemps car il a une double signification péjorative , c'est "vil" qui signifie , à l'origine, avoir peu de valeur morale OU marchande "acheter à vil prix" mais personnes ne dit ça à moins de faire partie de l'académie française haha. -"sleepy" c'est somnolent en français ;) -pour "successful" il peut y avoir prospère ou fructueux (une fructueuse carrière) mais dans le parlé de tous les jours c'est très rarement utilisé (par contre utilisé à l'écrit dans les livres/journaux etc... ) -"siblings" c'est le mot "fratrie" en français (probablement vouer à disparaître ou être modifier avec l'écriture inclusive) - "enjoy" vient d'un ancien verbe français "enjoir" qui a été remplacé par "apprécier" au fil du temps , on a tout simplement supprimé de notre vocabulaire ^^ (bien que ces derniers temps un dérivé de ce mot ai fait sont apparition : "enjailler" lui même argot ivoirien emprunté de l'anglais, emprunté du français puis récupéré par certains . Inception)