Flashcards: Cajun French

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Ayeou que t'es parti...

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Cajun words and phrases to the post on Cajunlanguage.net "Ayeou que t'tes parti" (et d'autres choses)

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Flashcards: Cajun French

éyeou, ou
and where, where
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éyeou, ou and where, where
a she
faire un achat make a buy
le tit boug(re), le jeune homme the little fellow, the young man
les volailles, the creatures with wings (chickens)
le poulailler, la perche the enclosed chicken roost, the open roost
en cabas in suitcase
passer la nuit to spend (pass) the night
mes marchandises my salable goods
sa bedaine, son estomac his, belly, his stomach
mon vieux, mon époux my old one (endearment), my husband
j'su parti, j'sus alléé I am gone, I am gone
grand-grand-père, vieux grand-père my great grand father, my old grand father
sobre, calme sober, calm
avare (il est avare) he is miserly
a enfoncé, a picqué has pushed in, has stuck
chou-chou little darling (little cabbage head)
moulu, moudu ground (meat)
son gosier, son gorgoton his throat, his throat area
ta petite soeur your little sister
la coulée the canal (sometimes a small bayou)
ni raison, ni cause neither reason, neither cause
mes bills, mes comptes, mes devoirs my bills, my accounts, my dues
mes obligeances my obligations
deshabitué to unaccustom
le marriage the marriage
mon alliance my wedding ring
un bavardeur, un radoteur a blabber mouth, a gossiper
publiés published
un bon échange a good exchange (bargain, trade)
très contente, très chanceuse very happy, very fortunate (feminine one)
une crête a crest
avaler to swallow
des pilules, des capsules some pills, some capsules
une chesseress, une séscheresse a dry spell, a drought
un chignon, un tignon a kerchief, a kerchief
un fiseau d'fil a spool of thread
le hobo, le tramp a bum, a loafer
mépriser, parler mauvais de to criticize, to speak disparagingly of
acidifié acidic (acidified)
pille robs (he robs)
un désir a desire
j'ai réalisé I have realized
j'ai compris I have understood
réaliser, aperçevoir to realize, to perceive
de maringouins, de cousins of mosquitoes, of mosquitoes
tites mouches piquantes little stinging insects (flying creatures)
les deux tits morceaux d'or the two little pieces of gold (nuggets)
les deux tites mottes d'or the two little lumps of gold
le médecin the doctor
le traiteur, le soigneur the treater, the caregiver
la volaille the hen (winged domestic creature)
s'épouser, se marconer to espouse oneself, to hitch oneself
le journal the journal (newspaper)
sa nouvelle caméra his new camera
un concurrent, un contesteur a racer (vying against another horse), a contester
aller en lit to go to bed
entièrement, totalement entirely, totally
tombé dans milles morceaux fallen into a thousand pieces
des merlitons some vegetable pears
sali soiled
le photo, le photographie the photograph, the photograph
empirant, rempirant worsening (too bad), worsening (too bad)
le pin the pine tree
qu'a la tête en bas et les pieds en l'aire who has the head down and the feet up (to look like a tree)
ton châle your shawl
ton truck your truck
ta face, ton front your face, your forehead
vont aller tuer they will go to kill (hunt)
des écureuils, des chevreuils some squirrels, some deer

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