voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir

[On the Left Wing]

A thread for Frenchisms ... that we can now use whenever we meet a Frog

Tu est Maird is another

 

[Northstander]

meaning what.....

 

[pasty]

J'avais mal de parrot

 

[Titanic]

Tu est Maird is another

I'm guessing you mean 'Vous etes merde.... aaaargh!' ?

or perhaps 'Vous etes merde, et vous savez que vous etes!'

 

[Marc]

Bonjour, une bierre sil vous plait

 

[Northstander]

 

[Titanic]

Re: Re: voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir

It is actually
Voulez-vous Couchez avec moi, ce soir.
As you are using Vous, the ending of the verb has to match the subject.

Also, "Tu es Merde" is the correct way of telling a Frenchman he is shit. Est is used for refering to people in the 3rd person.

Yes, but here 'you' is plural - as in 'the French national football team', so 'vous' would seem more appropriate, n'est-ce pas ??

 

[Seagull's Return]

Re: Re: voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir

It is actually
Voulez-vous Couchez avec moi, ce soir.
As you are using Vous, the ending of the verb has to match the subject.

Also, "Tu es Merde" is the correct way of telling a Frenchman he is shit. Est is used for refering to people in the 3rd person.

I'm not 100% sure you're correct, Royal Ali: doesn't the verb "vouloir" here have to agree with its subject, "vous"? In which case the verb "coucher" must be in the infinitive, so "Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?" would be correct. I think - didn't do AS Level French, so I guess I could be wrong.

And since I'm being a pedantic git, it's German not French in which there is initial capitalisation of nouns other than proper nouns, so you need a lower-case "m" in "merde". If, however, that was just a typo, I apologise, God knows I make enough myself!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

From the Del Boy Trotter French dictionary...

"Mange tout Rodney, mange tout!"

And

"Menage a trois!"

 

[Sully's Moustache]

Did you fail? Vouloir is a modal verb and is always followed by the infinitive.

http://www.langweb.co.uk/webindex/Frengram.htm

MODAL VERBS – vouloir, pouvoir, devoir ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY THE INFINITIVE

je veux sortir ce soir

Maman est-ce que je peux sortir ce soir
Non, tu ne peux pas ; tu dois rester ici. Tu dois aider ton père

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Sorry, Ali, I'm only pedantic in the presence of pedants!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I've always thought that "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir" was an unlikely chat-up line anyway. Far too formal and almost certain to get a response along the lines of "Je vous remercie de votre enquête aimable. Allez vous faire foutre".

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Re: Re: voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir

'Vous etes merde, et vous savez que vous etes!'

 

[Lady Bracknell]

I've always thought that "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir" was an unlikely chat-up line anyway. Far too formal and almost certain to get a response along the lines of "Je vous remercie de votre enquête aimable. Allez vous faire foutre".

une pédante écrit...
Pleased to see the correct use of the "vous" form here, your Lordship.

 

[lost in london]

Sadly you are wrong royal ali, top marks for effort though!

I never thought I would see the day NSC had a french grammar thread.

Eh, Zidane, espece de gros connard, la prochaine fois que je te vois, je vais casser tes jambes, et apres je vais gagner le championnat pour angleterre, la meillure equipe du monde.

Becks must have said something like that, though his grammar is probably better than mine.

 

[lost in london]

Vous allez rentrer chez vous dans un putain d'ambulance.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bâtards méridionaux sales - vous êtes suisses et vous savez que vous êtes

 

[Titanic]

Vous allez rentrer chez vous dans un putain d'ambulance.

putain ?? I think I would have expected 'compte' ?? But I like your style

 

[Titanic]

Petit pays pres de l'Allemagne, vous etes seulement un petit pays pres de l'Allemagne!

 

[On the Left Wing]

Well I learned all my French in 1970s discos:

Lady Marmalade

Where’s all my souls sisters
Let me hear ya’ll flow sisters
Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, flow sister (oh)
Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, flow sister
He met Marmalade down in old Moulin Rouge
Struttin’ her stuff on the street (street)
She said, "Hello, hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?" (woah)
Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya da da (yeah-ey)
Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya here (here)
Mocha Chocolata ya ya (ooh yeah)
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ah, oh)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
(Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, flow sister)
He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
(Hey sister, go sister, soul sister, flow sister)
Boy drank all that Magnolia wine
Upon her black satin sheets
I swear he started to freak yeah
Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya da da (yeah-ey)
Gitchie, gitchie, ya ya here (here)
Mocha Chocolata ya ya (ooh yeah)
Creole Lady Marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ah, oh)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
We come through with the money and the garter belt
Let 'em know we got that cake
Straight up the gate
We independent women, some mistakes us for whores
I'm sayin‘ why spend mine when I can spend yours
Disagree? Well that's you and I’m sorry
I'm a keep playing these cats out like Atari
High heeled shoes getting love from the dudes
Four bad ass chicks from the Moulin Rouge
Hey sisters, soul sisters
Better get that dough sisters

 

[Titanic]

Levez-vous si vous voulez le Falmer!