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Tenth: "Mine de rien". It means "without seeming to", "surprise".

For example: Mine de rien, you have made good progress in French since you joined the Authentic French Academy. This means I am surprised at the speed at which you have progressed. To show this surprise, I say "mine de rien".

Eleventh: "Imagine that." It is used to draw attention to something that is going to follow.

For example, you can say: "Imagine that my cousin was voted the best baker in town." Here, we show the exceptional nature of the situation and we want to attract the attention of our interlocutor by saying "imagine."

Twelfth: "Bless you." "Bless you," you probably know, you say it when someone sneezes. If someone is next to you and sneezes, you're going to say, "Bless you."

Thirteenth: "Au temps pour moi". We use it to acknowledge that we have made a mistake. Be careful with the spelling, "au temps" is "au", further, "temps", "au temps", like the weather, like the time that passes, and not "autant" in one word, it is "au temps" in two words.

For example, imagine someone says to me:

– In “as much for me”, “as much” is written as one word.

I would say:

– No, no, it’s written in two words.

And there, my interlocutor could say:

– Oh really! My bad.

"My bad" here means I admit that I was wrong.

Fourteenth expression: "y en a marre". It means italy whatsapp number data I can't stand this situation any longer. It's a familiar way of saying "I'm fed up" and we say "y en a marre".

For example: My neighbor comes home every day at 4 a.m., he wakes me up. I'm fed up.

Fifteenth: "Quickly done". This is a familiar way of saying "quickly", we do something quickly. There can also be the connotation here "it's done quickly, but it's not very well done".

For example, if my son Tom says to me: "I tidied my room quickly", I will know that he didn't spend a lot of time, so he did it quickly, but in addition it may not have been done very well.

Sixteenth, again, it's a familiar expression: "À l'arrache". So, here, it means that we did something, it's even faster than quickly done and we know that it's badly done. "À l'arrache" means I did it very very quickly and rather badly.

A young student, for example, can tell you: "I played football all day and so I did my homework in a hurry". This means he did it very quickly, without concentrating too much, we can also say that he rushed it. "In a hurry" means done too quickly and it is done badly.

Seventeenth expression: "Du coup". It is very commonly used orally. It is mainly used to express a consequence.

For example: "The post office was not open when I arrived. So I had to wait in the cold." The act of waiting is the consequence of the fact that the post office was closed. And we can use "so" to introduce this consequence.

This expression is a bit familiar. From a grammatical point of view, it is not always recognized, but in any case, the French use it orally.

Eighteenth: "That's not all." It is used to close a discussion and start another important activity.

For example, imagine two colleagues who are chatting at the coffee machine, and then one of them says: "Well, that's not all that, but I have to go because I have a meeting." He uses "that's not all that" to end what he was doing, to start something important.

Nineteenth expression: "So-called". It means who claims to be. It is used in a negative way to say that someone who claims to have a skill does not necessarily have it.

For example: "He is supposedly a chef, but he doesn't even know how to cook an omelette." Here, we are indicating that this person claims to be a chef, this person says that he is a chef, but in fact, he probably isn't because he doesn't know how to cook an omelette.

Twentieth, it is a familiar expression that was explained in a short video, here, on this channel: "I am hot" or "I am hot". It is very used by young people. We must be careful, it may have a different connotation than that used by young people. Young people use it to say: "I am super motivated, I really want to do something".

For example :

– Are you coming to play video games at my place tonight?

The other answers:

– Oh yeah, I’m hot.

That means I really want to do it.

Be careful, when you use this expression, once again, there may be other, slightly hidden meanings.

So, there you go, I hope you enjoyed it. Don't hesitate to watch this video again, there's a lot of information that came in and these are really expressions that are used daily by French speakers. So, if you want to understand all the French, it's important that you master them, at least that you know how to understand them.

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