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quiet basalt
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Pretty common
Not something you'll run into on a daily basis, of course.

proper yew
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a bit rare, sounds a bit naive/childish

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(imo)

idle pollen
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I could use "avoir la pêche everyday"
"la frite" is rarer, more humoristic

proper yew
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i don't think i've ever used "j'ai la frite"

quiet basalt
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I don’t hear avoir la frite regularly, but I have heard it

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I probably hear avoir la banane or avoir la patate more often

proper yew
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avoir la banane is more like being happy

limpid crag
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How about "je suis lessivé"?

quiet basalt
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for being wiped out?

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I've heard it

limpid crag
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For being really tired

idle pollen
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yeah it's often used

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maybe not often but definitely not surprising

limpid crag
quiet basalt
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I mean, with any expressions like these, you're not going to run into them all the time

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some people like to use them

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others never

limpid crag
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This is where I'm getting them from

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Well what are some that would make natives go like "oh, boomer right there"

quiet basalt
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ah well that's the fun of learning languages

limpid crag
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Or even go like "... t'as... Quoi? T'as la pêche ? Mais ça veut dire quoi ça"

idle pollen
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definitely not the ones you said

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they are used and understood by a vast majority

limpid crag
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The thing with me is I have so much vocab and grammar knowledge, but I literally do not know when to say what, I don't know how to adapt my register, I don't know what's out of date, what's just book knowledge and isn't actually used

quiet basalt
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tbh, you can ask questions here all you want
you're not going to get a feel for register until you start interacting IRL with people

limpid crag
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First time I used the word "souliers" there was a French person and they said "you talk like a 19th century book"

quiet basalt
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and, yes, people will sometimes laugh at a weird phrasing or an outdated expression
but you just gotta trye

quiet basalt
limpid crag
quiet basalt
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chaussures, tennis, souliers, godasses, pompes, espadrilles…

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(some of those are specific types of shoes, fwiw)

limpid crag
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Most of them are similar to my native language, I'm Romanian and both are Latin, so similar tendencies but the hard part is always having to wonder "do people actually say this like this?"

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Thanks for answering!!!

idle pollen
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how do you say it in Romanian?

limpid crag
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Pantofi