Le groupe français 2016 - 2023 Les Voyageurs

[DaveBee]

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[DaveBee]

Topical link for UK readers, Aujourd'hui l'histoire: La conspiration du poudres 1605.

[tomgosse]

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I look forward to following your progress.

Tom

[Ольга]

I want to be a member of your group!

Bienvenue!
I added your name and a link to your blog to our list.

I look forward to following your progress.

Tom

Oops, a mistake! My French log is that: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... =15&t=2405
The log you've added is my English log.
Sorry that I have too many logs. It may be confusing.
I just have one log for French, Greek and German, one log is for English Pronunciation, and one log is for preparation for the Cambridge English (international) exam. Sorry that I have not told you earlier.

[DaveBee]

You sometimes hear sentences ending with '... avec.'

Et puis ensuite, on sort la suite, deux triangles isocèles à nouveau, on les fait correspondre, ils sont identiques. On forme, hop! Un losange avec.

From Accompagnement didactique 10/31 - Géométrie

I can see a meaning there, but to me the 'avec' seems to be missing a subject. I want it to be "Un losange [les] avec", but it's not!

Web searching for an answer today, I found a word reference thread which tells me that avec at the end of a sentence is an adverb meaning 'with it'.

This "avec" that you hear at the end of sentences has nothing to do with a preposition, it is an adverb meant to replace "with it", in cases where you cannot say "avec lui", using the disjunctive pronoun. (because for example, the "lui" does not refer to someone, but to something).

Example : "je suis venu avec mon frère" -> "je suis venu avec lui" (here, it is ok to use the disjunctive pronoun).
But : "Je suis venu avec mon livre" -> "Je suis venu avec". (When you cannot use a disjunctive pronoun, you replace the preposition + pronoun with a corresponding adverb.) For the preposition "avec", the corresponding adverb is "avec".
Each preposition has got its corresponding adverb.
avec -> avec
pour -> pour
de -> en (actually, EN is considered a pronoun...)
à -> y (and Y too)...
sur -> dessus

etc...

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Just come across this again

-Je veux savoir maintenant si on a les mains libres, parce que sinon je débarque.
-Moi avec.
-On va être trois.

From District 31 S02E56, 15m40s into episode.

Here the "moi avec" appears to be used in place of "moi aussi", or "moi avec lui".

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Once more:

-Te voilà redescendu , donc! Et toute la famille avec!..

From Le neige en deuil, by Henri Troyat.

'La famille' referred to is a small herd of sheep.

[DaveBee]

ne pas être dans son assiette > not in his seat > not his usual self.

Magalie, qu'est-ce qu'il se passe? Tu n'as pas l'aire d'être dans ton assiette.

From Les filles d'à côte, episode 34

[DaveBee]

Is there a french language equivalent of the Penguin Classics, Everyman Classics, etc range?

[aravinda]

I think both Gallimard (two imprints, La Pléide and Folio) and Le livre de poche would be broadly equivalent to Penguin etc.
Folio
http://www.folio-lesite.fr
La Pléide
http://www.la-pleiade.fr
Le Livre de Poche
http://www.livredepoche.com/collection-classiques

Then there are several other publishers such as Pocket.
https://www.pocket.fr/livres/classiques/

[MorkTheFiddle]

I think both Gallimard (two imprints, La Pléide and Folio) and Le livre de poche would be broadly equivalent to Penguin etc.
Folio
http://www.folio-lesite.fr
La Pléide
http://www.la-pleiade.fr
Le Livre de Poche
http://www.livredepoche.com/collection-classiques

Then there are several other publishers such as Pocket.
https://www.pocket.fr/livres/classiques/

Thanks for this. I have the complete set of Proust's Récherche in La Pléide edition (bought in Montmartre in the 80s! the sales clerk called it simply La Récherche) and some volumns of it in the Folio edition. I prefer reading the Folio because its point size is easier on older eyes. Same publisher for a two-volume set of La Guerre et la Paix, easy to read and a sufficient number of backnotes.
My copy of Le Père Goriot by Balzac is Le Livre de Poche. Of adequate point size and with adequate (but not overwhelming) explanatory footnotes. Most French novels that I buy are from Le Livre de Poche.

[Arnaud]

La Pléiade is printed on Bible paper...(in case you don't like that)