In a scene from 30 vies, François tells a colleague to not give up:
Lâche pas.
In another scene, a mother accuses her husband of letting their son ruin his life:
Tu vas le laisser gâcher sa vie!
Both lâcher and gâcher contain the â sound, which sounds like “aww.”
Caroline asks Vincent where he was:
T’étais où, toi?
Then, during a discussion with him, she uses the verb tenter to say that she didn’t want to do something:
Ça m’tentait vraiment pas.
For example, if someone asked you why you didn’t show up somewhere, you could say informally ça m’tentait vraiment pas, “I really didn’t want to.” Ça m’ is a spoken contraction of ça me. It sounds like çam.
[Quotes from 30 vies, season 2, episode 89, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 27 February 2012.]
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