OffQc | Québécois French Guide

In frustration, a character in 30 vies says:

Maudite journée d’marde… j’ai pogné un ticket.

“Damn shitty day… I got a ticket.”

Maudite sounds like mau-DZITT. Ticket sounds like tsi-KÈTT. You can review in entry #209 how the letters d and t are pronounced before the French i sound.

Pogner — this is an informal verb with different uses, but it often conveys the idea of catching or getting stuck with something. Here, pogner un ticket means “to get a ticket” (for speeding, parking, etc.). You’ll hear pogner during informal conversations. It’s avoided in careful writing and speech.

You’ll hear merde also pronounced as marde in Quebec.

[Quote from 30 vies, season 2, episode 65, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 16 January 2012.]