7La douleur exquise
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They say French people are hopeless romantics. Well, they do have a word to explain the feeling of loving someone who doesn’t love you back. It’s called la douleur exquise and could be translated as an “exquisite pain”.
8Faire du yaourt
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You might know the word yaourt, which means yogurt. But weirdly enough, faire du yaourt doesn’t mean that you are making yogurt from scratch. It means that you are singing a song with made-up words or trying to sing a foreign song without fully understanding the lyrics. Like these international singers who tried singing in French for one song!
9Ras-le-bol
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Are you fed up with a situation or with someone? Just shout out j’en ai ras-le-bol! It perfectly sums up the feeling of despair you can sometimes feel.
