Welcome to the second part of this series of articles about the most difficult French words to pronounce.
We asked the Talk in French community what are the French words that they are having a hard time saying… And here are the results.
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is also a part 1 which can be found here, as well as parts 3 and 4.
dehors | outside, outdoors | (0:01 min) |
dessus, dessous | dessus means on top while dessous means underneath; both can be used as adverb, preposition or a noun |
(0:14 min) |
deux | two, as in the number 2 | (0:29 min) |
droit vs doigt | droit means straight while doigt means finger | (0:40 min) |
écureuil | squirrel | (0:55 min) |
en couleur | in color | (1:08 min) |
“I can’t say ‘en couleur’ without sounding very offensive. I dread the printers in work breaking down and explaining to the technician that there is a problem printing in colour !”
— Paulette, via Facebook
Note: Like Paulette, be careful in pronouncing “en couleur” because it sounds almost similar to “enculer” which is a pretty offensive term that could mean either “motherf*ck*r or a sexual act that involves the backside.
en fait | in fact, actually | (1:21 min) |
en haut | upstairs, at the top | (1:34 min) |
“I tried to say ‘en haut’ to a Frenchman but he couldn’t figure out what I was saying the first six times.”
— Hallie, via Facebook
ennuyer | to annoy | (1:45 min) |
enseigner | teach | (1:57 min) |
épanouissement | blossoming | (2:09 min) |
étang | pond | (2:22 min) |
“I try it two or three different ways until I get the right one.”
-Yve French, via Facebook
eux | them | (2:33 min) |
fauteuil | armchair | (2:44 min) |
feuille | leaf | (2:57 min) |
feuilleté | flaky, as in flaky pastry | (3:08 min) |
fille | girl | (3:20 min) |
fleur-de-lis / fleur-de-lys | a type of flower; lily flower | (3:32 min) |
formidable | formidable, tremendous | (3:45 min) |
fourrure | fur | (3:58 min) |
genre | a type or kind | (4:11 min) |
grenouille | frog | (4:22 min) |
gris | grey | (4:35 min) |
gros | big, large, fat | (4:46 min) |
“Helena-Anne J. Hill: Anything that involves a gr-sound in the beginning, like ‘gris’ or ‘gros’. Or just a gr- sound in general.”
Helena-Anne, via Facebook
grouiller | to mill around, to swarm; also a slang term that means “hurry up” |
(4:58 min) |
gueule | mouth | (5:10 min) |
hermès | a French luxury brand | (5:21 min) |
heure | hour | (5:34 min) |
heureux,heureuse | happy | (5:45 min) |
horreur | horror | (6:08 min) |
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Studying hard doesn’t guarantee you will become a respectable person.
Travailler dur ne garantit pas que vous deviendrez une personne respectable.
Ideal for a protective finish hard and resistant to metal artifacts.
Idéal pour un fini protecteur dur et résistant aux objets métalliques.
And this competition makes the customers hard to choose their products.
Et cette compétition rend les clients difficile de choisir leurs produits.
Many companies are reluctant to contact this hard and demanding clientele.
Certains sont peu enclins à contacter cette clientèle difficile et exigeante.
We work very hard to maintain these high standards of quality.
Nous travaillons très fort à maintenir ces hauts standards de qualité.
Our people have worked very hard to achieve these results.
Nos gens ont travaillé très fort pour atteindre ces résultats.
Recommended for cutting asphalt with medium hard and abrasive aggregates.
Recommandé pour la coupe d’asphalte avec des granulats durs et abrasifs.
Click here to view our wide selection of portable hard drives.
Cliquez ici pour consulter notre vaste gamme de disques durs portatifs.
Avoid knocking your jewelry against hard objects or other surfaces.
Évitez de cogner vos bijoux contre d’autres objets ou surfaces dures.
Companies are working really hard with every new concept of gadgets.
Les entreprises travaillent vraiment dur à chaque nouveau concept de gadgets.
Start playing against competitive opponents from easy to hard mode.
Commencez à jouer contre les adversaires compétitifs du mode facile à dur.
The strict, restrained design of hard lambrequins is quite neutral.
Le design strict et restreint des lambrequins durs est assez neutre.
Precision casting valves with high bearing and hard to break.
Vannes de coulée de précision à roulement élevé et difficiles à casser.
This disease is hard to treat and is therefore frequently fatal.
Cette maladie est difficile à traiter et est donc souvent mortelle.
This plant is hard to keep and demands freshness and constant aeration.
Cette plante difficile à conserver réclame fraîcheur et aération constantes.
Tumbling tracks are hard and accelerate the body extremely fast.
Les pistes de tumbling sont dures et accélèrent très rapidement le corps.
The quiet land once bountiful had become hard and unyielding.
Cette terre tranquille, jadis fertile, était devenue dure et stérile.
These standard hard drives are also sensitive to shock and vibration.
Ces disques durs standard sont sensibles aux chocs et aux vibrations.
The present invention discloses a multi-layer hard film for an indexable insert.
L’invention concerne un flim dur multicouche pour plaquette amovible.
Such an outcome would be hard to achieve at purely national level.
Ce résultat semble difficile à atteindre au simple niveau national.
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hard upon [sth] adv + prep
hard
between a rock and a hard place,
between Scylla and Charybdis expr
also UK: cyder n
hard cash n
hard cash n
die hard n
die hard adj
fall upon hard times v expr
give [sb] a hard time over [sth] v expr
hard-boiled adj
hardcore adj
hardcore adj
magnetic disk n
hard-earned adj
hard-hit adj
: avoir du mal à faire [qch] loc v
hard labour (UK) n
hard-of-hearing adj
hardcore porn n
The words are too hard so just write it yourselves.
Les mots sont trop compliqués donc écrivez-les vous mêmes.
Not too hard, not too rough,
Pas trop forts, pas trop brouillons,
Theorists hard at work at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario.
Théoriciens acharnés au travail à l’Institut Perimeter, à Waterloo Ontario.
Hard liquor and various beverages are also available, as
Des alcools forts et diverses boissons sont également disponibles,
Vitry’s hard nail clippers are a pedicure
La Pince à ongles forts Vitry est un instrument
I will pass! I don’t drink hard alcohol!
Je ne bois pas d’alcools forts.
Congratulations for all the hard workers!
Félicitations à ces travailleurs acharnés!
War makes for hard choices,
La guerre est faite de choix ardus.
Life’s full of hard choices.
The regular dating’s hard enough.
Les rendez-vous classiques sont suffisamment compliqués.
The idle rich are hard to entertain.
It’s not hard, I will show you.
The rules were hard to understand and did not come into widespread use.
Ces règles étaient compliquées à comprendre et leur usage ne se généralisa pas.
Dating is hard, doubly so when you’re a teenager.
Les fréquentations sont compliquées, surtout quand on est adolescent.
The many hard roads we have traveled together.
Des routes ardues que nous avons empruntées ensemble.
Your hard work and dedication is appreciated and has not gone unnoticed.
Votre travail acharne et votre dévouement sone appréciés à leur juste valeur.
Solve hard maths equations with the help of advanced calculator.
Résolvez facilement des équations mathémathiques compliquées à l’aide d’un calculateur avancé.
Relationships are hard, gay or straight.
Les relations sont compliquées, qu’elles soient homos ou hétéros.
So hard to explain to you.
Ok, that’s a hard 5, all right?
Ok, c’est un»hard 5″, d’accord?
Like my life isn’t hard enough right now.
Force it to shutdown and restart with a»hard reboot.
forcer l’arrêt avec un»hard reboot.
We might want to arrest him, but it’s going to be hard.
Nous essayerons de l’arrêter, mais la tâche sera ardue.
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If you want to know how to say hard in French, you will find the translation here. We hope this will help you to understand French better.
Here is the translation and the French word for hard:
difficile
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- hard hit
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