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Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:39 am
Hello everyone and thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Français Authentique podcast. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being ever more numerous to join us every Sunday. Today, we are going to discover together the meaning of the expression "au petit bonheur la chance".
Before that, let me tell you… I was going to say remind you, but that’s going to be a little aside. I’d like you to go see the first link in the description. It’s a link to the Authentic French Academy . So here, I don’t have to convince you of anything because registrations for the academy are closed. They’re closed 90% of the year because we like to have promotions that arrive and that we can welcome through an integration process.
So for the moment, it is impossible to join us, but I invite you to take a look at the page, even if you do not intend to join us, to look, discover what is possible for you, discover all our content, the modules, the Zoom meetings with our tutors, the meetings with me, the dictations, the reading club, the SOS sheets to learn grammar, conjugation, pronunciation in a natural way, etc.
The next registrations are scheduled for October 1st, but you can already join the waiting list if this is something that interests you. So I really invite you to follow the first link in the description. That being said, we can simply now work on our expression and discover the expression "au petit bonheur la chance".
The word "small" is an adjective. It means of small dimension, of a low size. It is simply the opposite of large. Something small is something that is not large.
The word "happiness" is a state, it's the fact of being happy, joyful. We are in a state of well-being, we are happy. Basically, that's what happiness is.
The word "luck" is what we would describe as the favorable or unfavorable circumstances of an event. Basically, if we are lucky, something pleasant, something good qatar whatsapp number data happens to us. If we are unlucky, something bad happens to us, something problematic.
For example, if I fall on the ground in the street and break my leg, well that's bad luck, I was unlucky. Bad luck is the opposite of luck. On the other hand, if I'm walking down the street and I find a €50 note on the ground, well I'm lucky. So that's luck and bad luck.
But what does this expression "au petit bonheur la chance" mean? Originally, the word "happiness" only meant "luck" or "chance". It comes from Latin. Happiness is composed of "bon", which is the opposite of bad, and "heur", and heur comes from the word "augurium", sorry for my pronunciation, I never studied Latin, which means omen taken from the observation of the flight of birds. And it also gave the word "augure", "omen". So the word "bonne heur" is the good omen, the favorable sign and it is the definition of the word "luck".
Before that, let me tell you… I was going to say remind you, but that’s going to be a little aside. I’d like you to go see the first link in the description. It’s a link to the Authentic French Academy . So here, I don’t have to convince you of anything because registrations for the academy are closed. They’re closed 90% of the year because we like to have promotions that arrive and that we can welcome through an integration process.
So for the moment, it is impossible to join us, but I invite you to take a look at the page, even if you do not intend to join us, to look, discover what is possible for you, discover all our content, the modules, the Zoom meetings with our tutors, the meetings with me, the dictations, the reading club, the SOS sheets to learn grammar, conjugation, pronunciation in a natural way, etc.
The next registrations are scheduled for October 1st, but you can already join the waiting list if this is something that interests you. So I really invite you to follow the first link in the description. That being said, we can simply now work on our expression and discover the expression "au petit bonheur la chance".
The word "small" is an adjective. It means of small dimension, of a low size. It is simply the opposite of large. Something small is something that is not large.
The word "happiness" is a state, it's the fact of being happy, joyful. We are in a state of well-being, we are happy. Basically, that's what happiness is.
The word "luck" is what we would describe as the favorable or unfavorable circumstances of an event. Basically, if we are lucky, something pleasant, something good qatar whatsapp number data happens to us. If we are unlucky, something bad happens to us, something problematic.
For example, if I fall on the ground in the street and break my leg, well that's bad luck, I was unlucky. Bad luck is the opposite of luck. On the other hand, if I'm walking down the street and I find a €50 note on the ground, well I'm lucky. So that's luck and bad luck.
But what does this expression "au petit bonheur la chance" mean? Originally, the word "happiness" only meant "luck" or "chance". It comes from Latin. Happiness is composed of "bon", which is the opposite of bad, and "heur", and heur comes from the word "augurium", sorry for my pronunciation, I never studied Latin, which means omen taken from the observation of the flight of birds. And it also gave the word "augure", "omen". So the word "bonne heur" is the good omen, the favorable sign and it is the definition of the word "luck".