In this post, just some random stuff — a question from a reader, some new vocabulary in French, an election sign from Option nationale, what YUL represents.
1. We’ve seen before that the Québécois French word for “tray” is un cabaret (in the sense of a tray that you carry food on, like at a fast-food restaurant).
A related term is un cabaret de transport. This is one of those cardboard trays that you can use to carry beverages out of the restaurant.
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2. Rob asks how to say “dark-roast coffee” in French: un café corsé. When coffee is corsé, it has a more robust flavour.
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3. De quoi can mean quelque chose. If you add an adjective after it, it becomes de quoi de. Examples:
Mais dis de quoi!
Say something, will you!
Comprends-tu de quoi là-dedans?
Do you understand any of that?
Il m’a dit de quoi d’intéressant.
He said something interesting to me.
J’ai jamais entendu de quoi de plus épais que ça!
I’ve never heard anything so stupid as that!
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4. I finally managed to spot an election sign (une pancarte électorale) from the party called Option nationale. I’ve now added it to this earlier post about what the 2014 election signs in Québec look like.
The slogan on the pancarte électorale is Réveiller le courage.
Supporters of the Option nationale are called onistes.
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5. Montréal’s international Trudeau airport code is YUL.
This code is symbolic of Montréal, in the same way that the 514 telephone area code is symbolic of the city.
Thanks for the random words! On the same note as “”cabaret de transport”, what is a sleeve called? The usually cardboard thing that goes around your hot cup of coffee. I’ve found many variants of this word and have always wondered what is used in Quebec.
un manchon 🙂