Hugo from the television series La Galère has found a new apartment. His father asks him what his new place is like:
Il est comment, cet appart-là?
Hugo responds:
Il est écoeurant!
When Hugo answers that the apartment is écoeurant, he’s saying that it’s incredible or amazing even though écoeurant literally means “disgusting.”
Appart is an informal way of saying appartement. The final t in appart is pronounced: appartt.
Informally, il est very often sounds like yé. Here’s how the above quotes were pronounced in this scene:
Yé comment, cet appart-là?
(Il est comment, cet appart-là?)
Yé-t-écoeurant!
(Il est écoeurant!)
In fact, this isn’t the first time that Hugo talks about an amazing apartment. In entry #130, Hugo described the apartment he was going to get as being un appart d’enfer…
Nor is it the first time that Hugo uses the word écoeurant — in entry #67, he says that he’s going to get une job écoeurante.
[Both quotes in this entry from La Galère, season 4, episode 2, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 19 September 2011.]
