Thursday, 19 April 2018

Interjections and onomatopoeia - Les interjections et les onomatopée

Interjections are used to express our emotions: joy, pain, disappointment, astonishment ; to give an order, to call someone. These are short words and come out spontaneously:

Allo !               Hello, hullo
Ah !                 Ha!
Aie !                Ouch!
Allez !             Come on!
Bravo !            Well done! 
Chut !              Shut!
Eh !                 Hey!                                           
Euh !               Haw!
Hourra !          Hurray!
Oust !              Shoo!
Ouf !               Phew!
Ouille !           Ouch!
Oh la la !        Oh Dear!
Oh !                Oh !
Pfff !               Pfff!
Zou !              Shoo!
Zut !               Heck!

Onomatopoeia are used to imitiate sounds:

Bla bla               to end a sentence like etc
Boum                 to imitate something exploding  
Ding dong          to imitate a door bell
Dring                 to imitate a phone bel
Gla gla               to express when you are cold

Glou glou           to imitate water which sink          
Grr                     to express a an anger
Miam miam       to express a good taste
Vlan                   to imitate a slamming door
Vroum                to imitate the noise of a car


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