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Interacting with someone
Useful phrases...
Saying hello...| Good morning | Good afternoon | Good evening. | Good night | Hello / Hi |
Being polite:| How do you do? | How are you (doing) ? | How is it going? |
| How do you do? | Fine, thank you. | Fine, thank you. (thanks) |
Meeting someone | Pleased / nice / glad to meet you! | May I introduce you to .. | Have you met before? |
| You're welcome! Don't mention it! My pleasure! It was kind of you! | I'll be glad to meet him / her. | You look so nice in this dress! It's a lovely dress! |
Useful : | I beg your pardon! | Do you mind if … | If I may …. | I'm sorry. |
| What's wrong? What's the trouble? | What's the matter? | What can I do for you? How can I help you? | That's a relief! It can't be helped now |
Suggesting:| What about /how about (going to the theatre?) | Shall we (have a drink?) | Would you like (to eat out?) | Why don't we (go to the cinema?) |
| Ça vous dirait (d'aller au restaurant) ? |
Asking:| Do you think so? Don't you think so? | How do you feel about it? What do you think about it? | Would you be kind enough to |
Give me my book! Gimme my book! | ||
| Would you mind (taking …) | Do you agree? Are you for or against it? | Would you be so kind as to (bring me..) |
| Seriez-vous assez aimable pour (m'apporter…) |
Orders:| Will you sit down! | Sit down! | Let's sit down! | Don't sit down! | Let's not sit down! |
Agreements:| That's right! You're right! | Of course! Certainly! Yes, I think so! | I (quite) agree with you. I couldn't agree more! | That's a good idea! I'm all in favour of that! |
Disagreements:| You're wrong! That's wrong! | Certainly not! I don't think so! | I don't think that way! I'm afraid I don't agree ! | I'm strongly against! I can't accept that! |
| J'y suis fermement opposé! Je ne peux accepter cela ! |
Wishing the best:| I hope everything's all right for you. | Enjoy your (stay, day…) Have a nice... | Enjoy yourself (ves) |
| Amusez-vous bien | ||
| I hope everything goes well for you. | I'm with you all the way. | Have fun (familier)! |
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Apologizing :| I am sorry I'm really ashamed! | I want to apologize for... | There's been a misunderstanding. I've wasted your time. |
| I didn't mean to do that. | I'll never do it again. | It could happen to everybody! |
EXERCISE :
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