{"id":1864,"date":"2015-12-30T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2015-12-30T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T09:54:36","slug":"the-6th-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/the-6th-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6th Day of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Le sixi\u00e8me jour de No\u00ebl, mon amour m&#8217;a donn\u00e9&#160;: six oies pondeuses&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><em>(On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: six geese a-laying&#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-6.mp3\"\n                  data-audio-config-volume=\"1.0\"\n                  data-audio-config-rate=\"1\"\n                  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id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/six-geese-a-laying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333 \" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/six-geese-a-laying.jpg\" alt=\"Le sixi\u00e8me jour - The Twelve Days of Christmas in French\" width=\"154\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/six-geese-a-laying.jpg 154w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/six-geese-a-laying-125x160.jpg 125w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2013\/12\/six-geese-a-laying-63x80.jpg 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>six oies pondeuses<\/em><br \/>(six geese a-laying)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. <em>une oie \/ l&#8217;oie \/ les oies<\/em><\/strong> (goose\/geese) &#8211; be aware that because <em>oies<\/em> (pronounced &#8220;wah&#8221;) begins with a vowel, we need to &#8220;liaise&#8221; it with <em>les<\/em> or <em>six<\/em>, meaning the words get pronounced together by turning the &#8216;s&#8217; or &#8216;x&#8217; into &#8216;z&#8217;:  <em>les_oies<\/em> (&#8220;<em>lay-zwah<\/em>&#8220;) and <em>six_oies<\/em> (&#8220;<em>see-zwah&#8221;<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>From now on, it gets really tricky to translate this song. Pay attention, class!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. pondeuses<\/strong> &#8211; the verb is <em>pondre<\/em> (to lay [eggs]) and &#8220;<em>pondeuses<\/em>&#8221; roughly means female &#8220;layers [of eggs]&#8221; (if male geese could lay eggs, they&#8217;d be &#8220;<em>pondeurs<\/em>&#8221; but the word <em>oie <\/em>is feminine and so it must agree in gender with that).  I&#8217;ve seen both <em>pondant<\/em> and <em>couvant<\/em> (<em>couver<\/em>: to sit on \/ incubate) in translation efforts (I admit &#8220;<em>pondant<\/em>&#8221; was my first guess) but having consulted no fewer than four French natives, this was universally rejected as terrible French.  We have to accept that &#8220;<em>pondeuses<\/em>&#8221; doesn&#8217;t quite capture &#8220;geese a-laying&#8221; but we&#8217;ll come to this later in line eight when we have no better option because we need to consider the poetry of the line as well as the sense.  Which brings me to the next lesson:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <em>-ant <\/em><\/strong>endings for -ing.  French present participles (<em>les participes pr\u00e9sents<\/em>) are usually formed by taking the verb&#8217;s stem and adding &#8211;<em>ant <\/em>in the same way you add -ing in English (to lay =&gt; laying).  However, <strong>danger! beware! present participles are almost never used in the way we use them in English<\/strong>. The full rules are a little too complex to explain in this post, so if you want to learn them, <a href=\"\/quickreg\">sign up<\/a>!  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