How do you say "You're welcome" in French?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 09 Mar 2004 00:33

Could anyone please tell me how to say "You're welcome" in
French? Please also give me some idea how to pronounce it.

daraxt · Post by **daraxt** » 09 Mar 2004 00:38

Vous êtes le bien venu. [vuzait le(?) bi'an venu(french" u") ] sorry I 'm french it's too hard to prononce with english pronontiation letters...

kokoyaya · Post by **kokoyaya** » 09 Mar 2004 00:38

We say "de rien".
I don't know IPA symbols but I can give you SAMPA pronounciation if you want.

daraxt · Post by **daraxt** » 09 Mar 2004 00:40

? m***** me suis planté... ?

kokoyaya · Post by **kokoyaya** » 09 Mar 2004 00:46

daraxt wrote:? m***** me suis planté... ?

Don't know but I think so (I think welcome would be enough to say "vous êtes le bienvenu" but we may need context...).

gramie · Post by **gramie** » 09 Mar 2004 01:24

Chez moi, au Québec, nous disons simplement «bienvenue» ou «de rien» aussi comme a dit Kokoyaya.

ann · Post by **ann** » 09 Mar 2004 10:57

je résume ce qu'ont dit les potes en l'explicitant un peu

Quand quelqu'un dit merci à quelqu'un d'autre, on répond effectivement généralement "de rien" en France ou "au plaisir" (ça fait un peu vieillot) ou "je vous en prie" (plus formel).
Au Québec, sous l'influence de l'anglais certainement, on répond aussi "bienvenue".

kokoyaya · Post by **kokoyaya** » 09 Mar 2004 11:06

ann wrote: je résume ce qu'ont dit les potes en l'explicitant un peu
Quand quelqu'un dit merci à quelqu'un d'autre, on répond effectivement généralement "de rien" en France ou "au plaisir" (ça fait un peu vieillot) ou "je vous en prie" (plus formel).
Au Québec, sous l'influence de l'anglais certainement, on répond aussi "bienvenue".

Thanks but in English now...

ann · Post by **ann** » 09 Mar 2004 11:28

I left the translation for you koko!!!
In France, when someone says "thanks" (merci) we answer "de rien" or sometimes "au plaisir" (usually the grand fathers say so) or "je vous en prie" (more formal).
In Quebec, because of the influence of English, the french speaking people usually say "bienvenue" which means "welcome" in French

(tu peux me corriger maintenant koko!)

kokoyaya · Post by **kokoyaya** » 09 Mar 2004 11:33

ann wrote:(tu peux me corriger maintenant koko!)

Pas le temps, je préfère faire bosser les autres

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 09 Mar 2004 16:12

kokoyaya wrote:
ann wrote:(tu peux me corriger maintenant koko!)
Pas le temps, je préfère faire bosser les autres

There's nothing to correct, Ann, you're perfectly right except maybe for the () wich could be translated as "( a little old fashioned), but you did have the right meaning , and that's what's important

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I'd forgotten that this wasn't a French forum, sorry!

marinala_b · Post by **marinala_b** » 09 Mar 2004 16:19

the most common would be "de rien" or "pas de quoi" [pa de koa]
But the correct way would be "je vous en prie", rarely used. [je voozan pree]
Sorry I can't really write phonetic alphabet . I made it as close as possible to english pronounciation.

ANTHOS · Post by **ANTHOS** » 28 Mar 2004 11:21

Hi

Heres my twopenny's worth.

I tend to hear the following more often than 'de rien' and 'pas de quoi'. Yes they are more 'formal/correct' but not overly so, hence the use of a second person singular version (the other phrases, if not full sentences, being perfectly acceptable though):
Je vous en prie ( je vooz on pri) - this is the polite version that you would hear in shops for exampe
Je t'en prie ( je ton pri)

Bye
Andréa

PS FYI I'm an Anglophone now living in France

Maïwenn · Post by **Maïwenn** » 28 Mar 2004 14:06

ANTHOS wrote:I tend to hear the following more often than 'de rien' and 'pas de quoi'. Yes they are more 'formal/correct'

Well, "de rien" is perfectly correct... "Il n'y a pas de quoi" is more informal, but correct too.

Glorfindel · Post by **Glorfindel** » 18 Apr 2004 21:15

there is "je vous souhaite la bienvenue" (je (like i in bird) vu suatt (like a in hate) la bien (???)ve (like in je) nu (french u))and "je te souhaite la bienvenue" (more informal) too.