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Understand AVOIR LE GOÛT and TENTER as used in Québécois French (#966)

25 June 2015 by OffQc

In the OffQc Québécois French guide called 1000, example sentence #991 reads:

J’ai pas l’goût d’en parler.
I don’t wanna talk about it.
I don’t feel like talking about it.

You can see the full page this sentence appears on in the guide by clicking on the sample page above.

Avoir le goût means to want, feel like.
En parler means to talk about it.

The expression avoir le goût is used frequently.

J’ai pas l’goût.
I don’t wanna.
I don’t feel like it.

J’ai pas l’goût d’y aller.
I don’t wanna go (there).
I don’t feel like going (there).

Si t’as l’goût, fais-moi signe.
If you wanna, let me know.

(There’s pronunciation help at the end of this post.)

Maybe you’ve learned to say this expression with envie, and that’s fine too:

J’ai pas envie de…
I don’t feel like…

Note the absence of le in the expression though:

avoir envie (de)
avoir le goût (de)

Another way to express this is with the verb tenter. Like the expression avoir le goût, the verb tenter is frequently used.

Ça m’tente pas!
I don’t wanna!
I don’t feel like it!

Ça m’tente pas d’y aller.
I don’t wanna go (there).
I don’t feel like going (there).

Ben oui, ça m’tente!
Yeah, I do feel like it!
Yeah, I do wanna!

How do you pronounce the informal contractions in the examples above?

pas l’goût
(informal contraction of pas le goût)

There’s a good example here of how pas is pronounced in Québec when the speaker says pas d’chat. In pas d’chat, de loses its vowel. So pas d’chat sounds like pas with a d sound on the end of it, followed by chat.

In pas l’goût, le loses its vowel too. To say pas l’goût, first say pas with an L sound on the end of it, then say goût.

t’as l’goût
(informal contraction of tu as le goût)

T’as is an informal contraction of tu as. T’as rhymes with pas as pronounced in Québec. T’as l’goût rhymes with pas l’goût from above, where le loses its vowel again.

ça m’tente
(informal contraction of ça me tente)

Ça sounds like sa here. (Ça has two possible pronunciations; if you’re not sure what they are, read this.) In ça m’tente, me loses its vowel. So to say ça m’tente, first say sa with an m sound on the end of it, then say tente.

You can read more about the Québécois French guide 1000 here, or buy it here.

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