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J'étais pour te le dire. (J'allais te le dire. / J'étais sur le point de te le dire.) I was going/about to tell you about it. Avoir su, j'aurais... (Si j'avais su, j'aurais...) Had I known, I would have... J'étais après travailler quand ils sont arrivés. (J'étais en train de travailler quand ils sont arrivés.) I was working when they ...
Trésor de la langue française au Québec logo. The Trésor de la langue française au Québec ( Treasury of the French language in Quebec , TLFQ) is a project created in the 1970s with the primary objective of establishing a scientific infrastructure for research into the history of Quebec French and, also, its current usage. [ 1 ]
There is a huge variety of idioms in Quebec that do not exist in France, such as fait que ("so"); en masse ("a lot"); s'en venir (for arriver and venir ici); ben là! or voyons donc! ("oh, come on!"), de même (for comme ça). Entire reference books have been written about idioms specific to Quebec. A handful of examples among many hundreds:
Mémoire à la Commission permanente de l'éducation, des affaires culturelles et des communications en marge du bill 22, Loi sur la langue officielle, Quebec: Mouvement Québec français, 29 f. MQF (1973). Je vote pour le Québec français, Montreal: Mouvement Québec français, 96 p.
Quebec has a historied relationship with France, as Quebec was a part of the French Empire and both regions share a language. The Fédération France-Québec and the Francophonie are a few of the tools used for relations between Quebec and France. In Paris, a place du Québec was inaugurated in 1980. [186]
" Vive le Québec libre ! " ( French: [viv lə ke.bɛk libʁ] , 'Long live free Quebec!') was a phrase in a speech delivered by French President Charles de Gaulle in Montreal , Quebec on July 24, 1967, during an official visit to Canada for the Expo 67 world's fair.
Une idée qui somnolait : écrits sur la souveraineté du Québec depuis les origines du RIN, 1958-2000, Montréal: Comeau & Nadeau, 250 p. ISBN 2-922494-33-0; RIN. Programme politique du Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale : tel qu'adopté à son congrès de mai 1965, Montréal: RIN, 75 p. Pelletier, Réjean (1974).
Using le 10 in such a context, although it is normal in France, would be strikingly odd in Quebec (especially Montreal) except in some regions, particularly the Outaouais, where it is usual. (An alternative explanation, however, is that bus routes in Montreal are called "lines" and so la 10 is short for la ligne 10 , not l'autobus 10 since it ...