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	European French	English
#1	European French by Slorany
	Ça fait des heures que tu l'attends T'as mal aux os, t'as mal au dos Tu transpires, c'est pas parce qu'il fait chaud Et tu trembles, c'est pas parce que t'as froid	You’ve been longing for him for hours, Your bones are hurting, your back is hurting, You are sweating, not because it’s hot, And you’re shivering, not because it’s cold.

Lexicon

Attendre: to wait, to long for
Aux: contraction of “à” + “les”
Avoir: to have
Avoir mal à: to hurt (+ place where it hurts)
C’est: contraction of “ce” + “est”
Ça: demonstrative pronoun
Ce: demonstrative pronoun
Chaud: warm, hot, also used to express difficulty
Des: indefinite plural article
Dos: Back (anatomy), back of something
Est: 3rd person (singular) of the verb “être”, to be
Et: used to concatenate several elements into a list
Faire: to make, to do
Froid: cold, aloof, distant
Heures: hours
L’: contracted form of “le” or “la”, singular definite articles (le = masc, la = fem)
Les: plural of “le” or “la”
Mal: (adjective) bad, (noun) evil
Os: bones
Parce que: indicates motive or reason
Pas: indicates negation, similar to “not”
Qu’: contraction of “que”
Que: relative pronoun
T’: contraction of “tu”
Transpirer: to sweat, to perspire
Trembler: to shake, to shiver, to shudder, to quake, to tremble
Tu: personal pronoun, second person, singular

Grammar

Mostly SVO.

French conjugations (singular)

1st person ends in -e or -s
2nd person ends in -s
3rd person ends in -t

Relative clauses are often indicated by a relative pronoun (european french is NOT pro-drop at all, contrary to Québec french) and sometimes also separated from the main clause by a comma, although commas are also used to indicate concatenation and lists of elements.

Note: this text is poetry so accurate punctuation may not be present.