Day 19 – paniquer
The Learning French 100 Day Project – Thursday, April 7, 2022
I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!
French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.
For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.
So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!
MOT DU JOUR
paniquer (intransitive verb) : to panic
MES PHRASES RIDICULES
Mon chat a paniqué en voyant le gros chien. (My cat panicked when it saw the big dog.)
Je panique facilement au milieu de grandes foules. (I panic easily in large crowds.)
Il y a donc un problème. Il ne s’agit pas de se paniquer. (So, there is a problem, but there is no need to panic.)