Showing posts with label knock in French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knock in French. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2016

KNOCK, KNOCK

More from Versailles' quartier Nôtre-Dame 
How do you say "Knock, knock..." in French?
Toc, toc...

Expression ... a "Knock, knock"  joke making the rounds in strike-plagued France this week:

Toc, toc...  Knock, knock...
Qui est là?  Who's there?  
Lara.  Lara.
Lara qui?  Lara who?
Lara Finerie est fermé.  (The refinerie is closed.)



Vocabulary
un heurtoir, un marteau de porte:  a door knocker
frapper à la porte:  to knock at the door
un marteau:  a hammer


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