interdire à: to forbid (verb)

Mon père interdit à mon frère de fumer. My dad forbids my brother to smoke. Pronounced: "an-tear-dear-aw"

une mouche: fly (noun)

Il y a une mouche dans la soupe. There's a fly in my soup. Pronounced: "moosh"

se mettre en colère: to get angry (verb)

Monsieur Arnaud se met en colère facilement. Mr. Arnaud gets angry easily. Pronounced: "suh-met-ruh-on-coe-layer" Grammar note: se mettre is a reflexive type of verb. Reflexive verbs have se in front of the normal infinitive and usually convey a mood or feeling about oneself.

le droit: rights; privilege (noun)

Je suis dans mon droit. I am within my rights. Pronounced: "dwaw" Idiomatic expressions with droit: Tout droit = straight ahead (driving directions) A qui de droit = To whom it may concern droits civils = civil rights droit de passage = right of way étudiant en droit = a law student

un avocat: lawyer (noun)

Elle est avocate et il est professeur. She is a lawyer and he's a professor. Pronounced: "aw-voe-kaw" Grammar note: the indefinite article, un or une is not used when followed by a noun describing profession, nationality, or religion.

paresseux(euse): lazy (adj.)

J'ai l'impression que Jacques est plus paresseux que jamais. I have the impression Jacques is lazier than ever. Pronounced: "paw-uh-suh" or "paw-uh-suhz" Note: it's imperative to match the spelling of paresseux to the gender of the subject. Since Jacques is a male then we use the paresseux spelling.

Monsieur un Tel: Mr. What's His Name

J'ai vu Monsieur un Tel hier soir... tu connais le mec avec le moustache noir.
I saw Mr. What's His Name last night.... you know the guy with the black mustache. Pronounced: "Msyuh-uh-tell"

démarrer: to start a car (v.)

Quand il fait froid, il est plus difficile de démarrer votre voiture. When it's cold, it's more difficult to start your car. Pronounced: "day-maw-ray"

avoir sommeil: to be sleepy (v.)

Couchons l'enfant; il a sommeil. Let's put the child to bed; he's sleepy. Pronounced: "ahv-wawr-soam-ay"

Fiche-moi la paix: leave me alone!

Fiche-moi la paix maintenant ou je partirai tout de suite. Leave me alone or I will leave immediately. Pronounced: "feesh-mwah-law-pay"

aider: to help (v.)

Je peux t'aider? or.... Puis-je t'aider? Can I help you? Pronounced: "ed-ay" NOTE: Both of the French sentences above mean the same thing. The first sentence uses inflection and the second sentence uses inversion. Inflection is just raising your tone at the end of the sentence to create a question out of a statement. Inversion takes the statement and inverts the subject and verb to create a question. The most common example of this is the French expression Parlez-vous français? . *If this confused you more.. don't fret because je peux t'aider si vous avez des questions.

se toquer de quelqu'un: to have a crush on someone

Je me toque de mon ami Pedro. I have a crush on my friend Pedro. Pronounced: "suh-tokayr-duh-kell-kun"

bien monté: well-hung

Elle les aime bien montés. She likes her men well-hung. Pronounced: "be-in-mawn-tay"

la foule: crowd; mass (n.)

la foule des badauds the crowd of onlookers Pronounced: "fool-uh"

quand: when (adv.)

Téléphone-moi quand tu seras prêt pour notre réunion. Call me when you are ready for our meeting. Pronounced: "kawn"

la librairie: bookstore (n.)

On achete les livres dans une librairie, pas dans une bibliothèque. One buys books in a bookstore, not in a library. Pronounced: "lee-brair-ree"

le nounours: teddy bear (n.)

Oui, c'est vrai. Je dors avec un nanours qu'il s'appelle Terry. Yes, it's true. I sleep with a teddy bear named Terry. Pronounced: "noo-noors"

tout le monde: everyone (pronoun)

Tout le monde pense que je suis parfait, et vous? Everyone thinks I am perfect, do you? Pronounced: "two-luh-mawn"

supplementaire: additional (adj.)

Il faut donner les fonds supplementaires pour ameliorer la situation en Asie.
It's important to give additional fonds to improve the situation in Asia.
Pronounced: "soup-luh-mawn-tear" Note interéssante: While watching CNN there was a woman that said the US government is giving too much money to the tsunami victims and suggested we keep our hands clean on this issue. Glad that ice princess of a woman isn't my mother or grandmother.

nettoyer: to clean (v.)

J'ai nettoyé le garage aujourd'hui et il ne m'a pris que sept heures. I cleaned the garage today and it only took me seven hours. Pronounced: "net-wah-yay" Note culturelle: The French do shower contrary to what many ignorant Americans like to think.