14 Ways to Get Angry Like a Frenchman
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:39 am
Today we're going to look at 14 ways to get angry like a French person.
Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new Authentic French video. Today, as you have understood, we are going to study vocabulary together. I am going to share with you 14 ways to get angry in French and there will actually be expressions of different registers , rather common expressions, rather familiar expressions. I am almost sure that you do not know them all, so stay until the end of this video to discover them.
So obviously, you don't have to use these expressions actively when you speak. I advise you to stay calm, but I think it's very important to understand them if you hear them coming from a French speaker.
Before moving on to the expressions, I remind you that in the first link in the description you can download the PDF file that accompanies this video and in which we repeat the 14 expressions that you will learn today. Let's go.
The first way to get angry or to show that you are angry is easy, it is a standard expression and it is to say: "it annoys me". "It annoys me" shows that something annoys us or sweden whatsapp number data makes us angry. It can be more or less strong, it can annoy us a little or it can annoy us a lot. But if you hear "it annoys me", it means it annoys me, I am angry.
For example: It annoys me when people don't respect the highway code.
Second way to get angry in French: "ça me gorge". This expression is rather familiar. It is not rude, but it is familiar and it means the same thing as "ça m'énerve". "Ça me gorge" means it makes me angry, it annoys me.
For example: It annoys me to always have to clean up after my children.
Third expression, it is also slightly familiar, just like "ça me gorge", it is: " ça me gave ". "Ça me gave", it means the same thing as "ça me gorge" or "ça m'énerve", it means that we are annoyed and that something makes us angry. We say rather in general, since it is familiar language, therefore rather oral, we even say "ça m'gave". As French people, we will tend to reduce and we will not say "ça me gave", but "ça m'gave".
For example: It annoys me to always have to repeat the same things.
Fourth, another colloquial way to get angry. In fact, it makes perfect sense that there are a lot of colloquial expressions, since when you're angry, you don't think about the correct way to express yourself, so you speak in a language that can be a bit colloquial without being rude. There are some rude words, we'll talk about them at the end of this video, but in any case here, it's colloquial without being rude.
And the next expression is: "ça me saoule". "Ça me saoule" means the same thing as "ça m'énerve" and the other expressions we have seen and we can also reduce it in general when speaking orally and say "ça m'saoule".
For example: It annoys me to have to wait in line at the checkout at the store.
Fifth, this expression is quite common: "it kills me". We can also say orally: "it kills me". Same thing here, we use it to show that something annoys us, irritates us, tires us, "it kills me".
For example: It kills me to have to do the same thing every day at work.
Sixth, rather common expressions. I say "some" because it is an expression that is used in two ways. It is "it gets on my nerves" or "it gets on my nerves". "It gets on my nerves", "it gets on my nerves", they mean exactly the same thing and they also mean "it annoys me", "it irritates me", "it tires me". There may be the idea here that it is a repetition of things that annoys us. It is not a one-off event, but it is the accumulation and repetition of something.
Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new Authentic French video. Today, as you have understood, we are going to study vocabulary together. I am going to share with you 14 ways to get angry in French and there will actually be expressions of different registers , rather common expressions, rather familiar expressions. I am almost sure that you do not know them all, so stay until the end of this video to discover them.
So obviously, you don't have to use these expressions actively when you speak. I advise you to stay calm, but I think it's very important to understand them if you hear them coming from a French speaker.
Before moving on to the expressions, I remind you that in the first link in the description you can download the PDF file that accompanies this video and in which we repeat the 14 expressions that you will learn today. Let's go.
The first way to get angry or to show that you are angry is easy, it is a standard expression and it is to say: "it annoys me". "It annoys me" shows that something annoys us or sweden whatsapp number data makes us angry. It can be more or less strong, it can annoy us a little or it can annoy us a lot. But if you hear "it annoys me", it means it annoys me, I am angry.
For example: It annoys me when people don't respect the highway code.
Second way to get angry in French: "ça me gorge". This expression is rather familiar. It is not rude, but it is familiar and it means the same thing as "ça m'énerve". "Ça me gorge" means it makes me angry, it annoys me.
For example: It annoys me to always have to clean up after my children.
Third expression, it is also slightly familiar, just like "ça me gorge", it is: " ça me gave ". "Ça me gave", it means the same thing as "ça me gorge" or "ça m'énerve", it means that we are annoyed and that something makes us angry. We say rather in general, since it is familiar language, therefore rather oral, we even say "ça m'gave". As French people, we will tend to reduce and we will not say "ça me gave", but "ça m'gave".
For example: It annoys me to always have to repeat the same things.
Fourth, another colloquial way to get angry. In fact, it makes perfect sense that there are a lot of colloquial expressions, since when you're angry, you don't think about the correct way to express yourself, so you speak in a language that can be a bit colloquial without being rude. There are some rude words, we'll talk about them at the end of this video, but in any case here, it's colloquial without being rude.
And the next expression is: "ça me saoule". "Ça me saoule" means the same thing as "ça m'énerve" and the other expressions we have seen and we can also reduce it in general when speaking orally and say "ça m'saoule".
For example: It annoys me to have to wait in line at the checkout at the store.
Fifth, this expression is quite common: "it kills me". We can also say orally: "it kills me". Same thing here, we use it to show that something annoys us, irritates us, tires us, "it kills me".
For example: It kills me to have to do the same thing every day at work.
Sixth, rather common expressions. I say "some" because it is an expression that is used in two ways. It is "it gets on my nerves" or "it gets on my nerves". "It gets on my nerves", "it gets on my nerves", they mean exactly the same thing and they also mean "it annoys me", "it irritates me", "it tires me". There may be the idea here that it is a repetition of things that annoys us. It is not a one-off event, but it is the accumulation and repetition of something.