{"id":1855,"date":"2015-12-28T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:59:07","slug":"the-4th-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/the-4th-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4th Day of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Le quatri\u00e8me jour de No\u00ebl, mon amour m&#8217;a donn\u00e9&#160;: quatre merles&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><em>(On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: four calling birds&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"audio-player audio-player--full audio-player--box kwiziq-wp-audio-override\" \n                  data-audio-config-id=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                  data-audio-config-src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/day-4.mp3\"\n                  data-audio-config-volume=\"1.0\"\n                  data-audio-config-rate=\"1\"\n                  data-audio-config-preserve-pitch=\"true\"\n                  tabindex=\"0\">\n                <audio class=\"audio-player__audio-element\" preload=\"none\"><\/audio>\n                <div class=\"audio-player__controls\">\n                    <button class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--button audio-player__control--button-compact audio-player__control--button-play\"\n                            data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                            data-audio-control-action=\"toggle-play\"\n                            title=\"Play\/Pause\"><\/button>\n                    \n                    <div class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--timeline\">\n                        <input type=\"range\"\n                               class=\"audio-player__progress\"\n                               data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                               data-audio-control-element=\"progress\"\n                               min=\"0\"\n                               max=\"0\"\n                               value=\"0\"\n                               step=\"0.01\" \/>\n                    <\/div>\n                   \n                    <div class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--speed\">\n                        <select class=\"audio-player__speed-selector\"\n                                data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                                data-audio-control-action=\"set-speed\"\n                                title=\"Playback speed\">\n                            <option value=\"0.5\">0.5x<\/option>\n                            <option value=\"0.75\">0.75x<\/option>\n                            <option value=\"1\" selected>1x<\/option>\n                            <option value=\"1.25\">1.25x<\/option>\n                            <option value=\"1.5\">1.5x<\/option>\n                            <option value=\"1.75\">1.75x<\/option>\n                        <\/select>\n                    <\/div>\n                    \n                    <div class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--time\">\n                        <span class=\"audio-player__current\"\n                              data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                              data-audio-control-element=\"current-time\">0:00<\/span>\n                        \/\n                        <span class=\"audio-player__duration\"\n                              data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\"\n                              data-audio-control-element=\"duration\">0:00<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--volume\">\n                        <button \n                            class=\"audio-player__control audio-player__control--button audio-player__control--button-compact audio-player__control--button-mute\" \n                            data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\" \n                            data-audio-control-action=\"toggle-mute\" \n                            title=\"Mute\/Unmute\"\n                        ><\/button>\n                        <input \n                            type=\"range\" \n                            class=\"audio-player__volume-slider\" \n                            data-audio-config-target=\"kwiziq-wp-audio-player-1\" \n                            data-audio-control-element=\"volume\" \n                            min=\"0\" \n                            max=\"1\" \n                            step=\"0.01\" \n                            value=\"1\" \n                            autocomplete=\"off\"\n                        >\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/day-4.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m starting to think I could be a pop star. Or I&#8217;m drunk.  Awkward!<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_328\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/four-calling-birds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328 \" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/four-calling-birds.jpg\" alt=\"Le quatri\u00e8me jour - The Twelve Days of Christmas in French\" width=\"163\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/four-calling-birds.jpg 163w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/four-calling-birds-137x160.jpg 137w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/four-calling-birds-68x80.jpg 68w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>quatres merles<\/em><br \/>(four blackbirds)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. <em>un merle<\/em><\/strong> is a blackbird. <em>A what?!<\/em> How is <em>that<\/em> a &#8220;calling bird&#8221;?! I hear you scoff.<\/p>\n<p>Well, see, it turns out &#8220;calling birds&#8221; is an Americanisation of the original lyric &#8220;colly birds&#8221; which are actually&#8230; *<em>drumroll<\/em>*<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;blackbirds. (You guessed, didn&#8217;t you? You clever thing, you.)  Colly was an old word for coal, which is black.<\/p>\n<p>So, if we wanted &#8220;calling birds&#8221; more like those in the picture, you know, meh-generic-Christmas-cardy birds, we could go for <em>oiseaux chantants<\/em> (literally &#8220;singing birds&#8221; but <strong>in the sense of &#8220;song birds&#8221;<\/strong> not &#8220;birds that are singing right now&#8221; &#8211; this is a very subtle distinction that can be rather problematic. More on this later.)<\/p>\n<p>I rather like <em>merles <\/em>but if you prefer to use <em>quatre oiseaux chantants<\/em> &#8211; just be aware that <em>chantants<\/em> is an adjective here, as in &#8220;song bird&#8221;; it doesn&#8217;t mean singing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of applying for QI.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And X Factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> One last thing: notice that it&#8217;s <em><strong>quatre<\/strong> <\/em>and not &#8216;<em>quatre<strong>s<\/strong><\/em>&#8216; &#8211; numbers don&#8217;t &#8220;agree&#8221; in number (pluralise) like adjectives.<\/p>\n<p><b>More:<\/b> <a href=\"\/blog\/the-3rd-day-of-christmas\/\">3rd Day<\/a> | <a href=\"\/blog\/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-in-french\/\">The 12 Days of Christmas<\/a> | <a href=\"\/blog\/the-5th-day-of-christmas\/\">5th Day<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"kwiz-app\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/api\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-title=\"Test your French against the CEFR standard\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-url=\"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/the-4th-day-of-christmas\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-return-title=\"The 4th Day of Christmas\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-questionspercomp=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-token=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-template=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-kwizkey=\"sorter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le quatri\u00e8me jour de No\u00ebl, mon amour m&#8217;a donn\u00e9&#160;: quatre merles&#8230; (On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: four calling birds&#8230;) I&#8217;m starting to think I could be a pop star. 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