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Quebec French verb SE MAGANER (#135)

31 January 2011 by OffQc

Any idea what the verb se maganer means in French?

In a scene from 30 vies, François tells a teaching colleague that she’s trying too hard to help a troubled student. As he speaks, he tells her:

Tu te maganes pour rien.
You’re taking on way more (work) than you have to.

[Said by the character François in 30 vies, season 1, episode 2, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 11 January 2011.]

Maganer quelque chose is an informal expression meaning “to damage something.”

Example:

J’ai magané mes souliers.
I damaged my shoes.

In the quote above, se maganer is used in the sense of taking on too much work, with the idea that it’s “damaging” to onself — not necessarily damaging in a literal sense, but definitely excessive.

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Posted in Entries #101-150 | Tagged français québécois, magané, maganer, Québécois French | 1 Comment

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  1. on 16 June 2011 at 13:30 Anonymous

    je suis magané also means I am a wreck usually from being hung over



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