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While the vocabulary of the love language is known for being charming and sophisticated, French language is also pretty ridiculous sometimes. Let's celebrate a few of French grammar moments that really made us mort de rire.

French is spoken by an estimated 274 million people in the world, but that doesn't mean it's a walk in the park. French pronunciation has up to 17 vowels depending on the dialect, and most of them are nasal. Many words sound the same but mean completely different things. Everything has a gender. It can take days of examining your relationship to someone before you figure out if it's more polite to call them tu or vous. Oh, and also we must not forget the funny French way of counting! Adding all of this together, French sure seems like the hardest language to learn.

Whether you consider yourself a Francophile, or you've barely mastered bonjour, these struggles will be all too real. To make the French learning process a bit easier we've compiled some really funny jokes about it, so at least you can practice your laughing in French.

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The French Way Of Counting

The French Way Of Counting

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Manda QoP
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just snorted coffee. I want to like this sixty ten times at least.

Notchimine Mette
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay, so basically the French can't count past 60 before they have to start all over again?

Myriam Ickx
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, and then they stop at twenty. Hence, four twenty or quatre-vingt equals eighty. I can laugh, I am Belgian, and although I have to confess that, in Belgium we also say "quatre-vingt", at least we say septante to mean seventy, and nonante to mean ninety. The Swiss are more logical, they say huitante or octante to mean eighty.

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Hannah Hanson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

English used to have a system like this that was used occasionally. "Fourscore and seven years ago" may be the most well known example of this.

Hannah Hanson
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Although French still seems to have gone the extra mile in making this confusing.

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Adeline Morgendorffer
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The reason is historical , too much people who could barely count were writing 4 x 20 to say 80 etc... it's just history and every language evolves in the same way, as they re probably reason why american says vaccum and not hoover while it's a british invention etc.

Samuel Zhao
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

China: ten, two ten, three ten, four ten, five ten….. a hundred

Angela Ruiter
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

See MakeThatTheCatWise on Facebook; How some Dutch people speak English :)

Israel Martinez
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm glad the French I took in 5th and 4th grade helped me understand this ...

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French School Years

French School Years

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Miklós Nagy
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are counting how many years left before they can go to uni and do dru- I mean study hard.

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The French Numeric System

The French Numeric System

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99 Problems, But Longer

99 Problems, But Longer

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Funny French Language

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French Numerals

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Isabelle Hadorn
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not all french speaking countries count this way. Belgium and Switzerland still use, septante (70), huitante (80) and nonante (90)

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Funny French Expressions

Funny French Expressions

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Funny French Language

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Tu vs. Vous

Tu vs. Vous

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giovanna
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Come on this is done in many many languages, it's just you English speakers who don't :D

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French Letters And Their Pronunciation

French Letters And Their Pronunciation

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Funny French Language

Funny French Language

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Samuel Vardier
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually more like "oil of nut of coco", or else French would be "huile de la noix du coco" whereas it's "huile de noix de coco". Makes sense.

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Diversifying Words

Diversifying Words

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Learning The French Language

Learning The French Language

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Confusing Language

Confusing Language

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maryhadalittlelamb
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but then again he spelled it as "handfull". how we know if he meant handful or hand full? it's ok to be confused! ;)

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Funny French Language

Funny French Language

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Master Markus
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm fairly certain that "breaking my balls" is also an English phrase. Not sure what country it originates from.

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Word Similarities

Word Similarities

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Camille Graphliart
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Until you meet "actually" "actuellement" "eventually" et "éventuellement" or dramatic/dramatique which ended with different meanings xD

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French Language Jokes

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Minute Changes

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One Big Ooof, Please

One Big Ooof, Please

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