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New example of overheard French: tanné de t’ça (#706)

15 January 2014 by OffQc

Carrot slop again? ffffff... chu tanné de t'ça.

Carrot slop again? Pffffff… chu tanné de ça.

In Montréal today, a woman in her 60s said:

Je suis tannée, je suis tannée de t’ça.
I’m fed up, I’m fed up with it.

What’s de t’ça?

It’s an informal pronunciation that you’ll sometimes hear for de ça.

The de t’ part just sounds like de with a t sound on the end, followed by ça, as if it were deutt ça.

It was a woman in her 60s who said de t’ça, but it can be heard in any age group during informal conversations.

You don’t need to start saying de t’ça yourself. Just learn to recognise it. The regular de ça pronunciation works in any language situation, for example: je suis tanné de ça, or more informally: chu tanné de ça.

If you are going to use de t’ça though, keep it for informal language situations.

By the way, the woman really did say je suis, and not the informal contracted forms j’sus (chu) or j’suis (chui).

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Posted in Entries #701-750 | Tagged baby, bébé, carrot slop, chu, chui, de t'ça, français québécois, j'suis, j'sus, Montréal, overheard, prononciation, pronunciation, Québécois French, tanné | 4 Comments

4 Responses

  1. on 15 January 2014 at 20:26 cntrational

    Possibly a shortening of “de tout ça”?


    • on 15 January 2014 at 20:50 OffQc

      Possibly. I’m not certain what it derives from.


  2. on 19 January 2014 at 16:43 Julie

    Wow, merci, j’entends ça assez souvent (particulièrement ”à cause de t’ça”) et j’étais justement sur le point de le chercher dans l’archive de ton blog !


    • on 19 January 2014 at 19:55 OffQc

      Content de le savoir, Julie!

      L’expression «à cause de t’ça» est un bon exemple de ce phénomène.



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