Learn five words for different bugs and insects
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| Lya: Welcome back to French weekly words. In France, let’s discover this week’s new theme. This week is bugs and insects. Eww! When you are going to see a bug you won’t be screaming in French, Oh mon Dieu! Une cafard! let’s go. First one is |
| 1. abeille |
| Abeille is bee. |
| Bees make honeys. Les abeilles font du miel. honey. |
| 2. Next one is: araignée |
| Araignée, spider. |
| Spiderman, Spiderman which in French is L’homme araignée, l'homme araignée. It doesn’t sound that great in French, right? |
| There is a spider on the ceiling. Il y a une araignée au plafond. When you say this about someone, it means he is bit crazy in the head, Il y a une araignée au plafond. he’s got spider on the ceiling. |
| 3. Next one is: chenille |
| Chenille, caterpillar. |
| La chenille mange des feuilles. The caterpillar eats leaves. |
| 4. Next one is: fourmi |
| Fourmi is an ant. There is this famous book series The Ants. So in French, it is Le fourmi by famous author Bernard Werber. |
| Les fourmis vivent sous la terre. Ants live underground. |
| 5. Next one is: moustique |
| Moustique, mosquito. |
| Let the mosquito – no! I am woken up by the mosquitoes at night. Les moust iques me réveillent la nuit . If it comes here and the bzzzz and then get beaten. |
| Mosquito repellants. Anti-moustique . |
| You want to buy one of these if you come visit France in summer. So just ask the store for Anti-moustique and you will have a way better vacation. |
| The end, and now you can express all the disgusting things crawling around the earth, in French which is way more fancy. Check the word list and website. Leave a comment for your favorite insect or the one you dislike the most. And I see you which is next week for more French words. Bye. |
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