Today, I learned that "Je suis excité" does not mean "I'm excited" in French. It means "I'm sexually excited"... more or less. I've been doing a lot of exciting things and using it a lot the past two weeks. With my French friends, people I meet, and especially with my host family. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I'm in Spain, and told the kids with whom I will be working that I was excited to be working with them. Only the form of excitement I used apparently refers to sexual excitement. Basically, I told the kids I was sexually aroused to be working with them. FML
Today, I am a Frenchie who's been in England for two months. While wanting to say to my technician that my manager made me groan during our meeting, I said that he made me moan. Now he keeps looking at me with a grin on his face. FML
Today, I tried to impress a French student by saying “Bonjour!” but instead said “Bordel!” which means “Brothel.” She laughed, and so did every one of the french students around us. My cultural street cred is officially dead. FML
Today, I realized that in French, my name means "penis." This wouldn't be so bad if my dad wasn't fluent in French. FML
Today, I realised the only preparation I've done for my final French exam has been wanking off to French porn. FML
Today, my girlfriend, who recently started French classes, and I were having sex. Knowing how whispering in my ear turns me on, she whispered something in French, and I came. Later I found out it meant something like, "You should lose a lot of weight." FML
Today, whilst reading all 15 pages of this site, my French girlfriend asked me over my shoulder for translations, such as "What is buttsex?", "What is wanking?", and "What means farted?" FML
Today, my French teacher set up a role-play scenario to act out in front of the class. During one of my lines, I mispronounced a phrase and called my teacher sexy. FML
Today, I spent my first night with my English boyfriend. I'm French, and when we woke up, I said in my most sexy voice, "Oh, I'm so dirty!" It's only when he left that I finally understood the look on his face; I wanted to have a glass of water. I was thirsty, not dirty. FML
Today, I had a presentation in French class. I was so nervous, the first thing I said when I got up there was, "Hola." FML
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Gwyddhien 0
Don't worry... I'm a native French speaker, and "je suis excité" isn't that bad and can be used with non-sexual things as well
sooper 0
Hahaha, they must think you have some great fun ;D
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kickle127 0
'Je suis excite' does mean 'I am excited.' I'm sexually excited in French is 'Je suis excite sexuellement.' I'm taking a French class and if your right, then the teachers have some pretty dirty minds lol
zombieskater 0
no actuall je suis means I am, so yea it's just I am excited
JamieLT 22
It doesn't translate word for word. Etre when speaking of yourself can have a totally opposite meaning
toddin 7
The same thing goes for being hot and cold. The proper phrase would be "I have excitedness/ hotness etc." I got laughed at a few times before finally catching on.
cocaimy 0
lol next time double check
caomei 0
oh that's funny haha
Kiskeya 0
I hate it when people try or pretend that they understand something like for example, a language. If you call your gf/bf in front of your parents, you would NOT want to say 'Honey, I want you' although you don't say any sexual term, it really implies that you want them sexually. Please, if you are only taking French 101 in your high school, don't stand as a French scholar and teach francophones how to speak 'la langue a Voltaire'. 'L'Academie Francaise would not exist, if it were that easy... And if you did not know, people will understand that when you said 'je suis excité', you did not mean anything vulgar. It is just not a word that people use in colloquial French. It is not just a phrase that someone would normally say in a conversation. @Toddin, if is not the HAVE that is translated into the 'To Be' form in French, it is a difference in base of the two languages. Roman/Latin languages like French have a different synthax, compared to a Germanic language like English... It is like trying to translate word-by-word, 'I am hungry' which has a proper French translation 'Je Suis Affamé' while the most common use of that idea is 'J'ai Faim'... Same goes for 'J'ai soif, J'ai sommeil,.... Please please, NEVER try to translate any language word-by-word like that. Latin languages have a different grammar. Peace
Kiskeya 0
@zombieskater 'je suis' means 'i am', therefore the OP was right? what happenned to 'je suis' [cf. suivre] that means 'i follow' ? there is more to the language of Jean Jacques Rousseau than taking 1 class from a teacher who barely speaks French. That is why they review the language every year. respect.
Wildbluesun 2
I did this in my Italian practice paper the other day. x.X My teacher was like "NOT A GOOD WORD".
Laurie71_fml 0
Ce n'est rien les français savent ce que veux dire "I'm excited" donc ils t'ont compris.
Chanayaa 0
that's not what it means I speak French and trust me it means your excited so tell your friends to stop playing jokes on you.