Owen

[meager veldt]

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[wintry tiger]

and what does t'en veux-t-y meaning

and on dirait toi en chat

[carmine meteor]

taleur -> tout à l'heure

t'en veux-t-y looks like a variant of the interrogative particle -tu/-ti, so you can turn that into "tu en veux pas un?"

and for "on dirait toi en chat", i understand that as "it's like you, but a cat!"

[gray fulcrum]

@wintry tiger where'd you find this from? it looks like they're transcribing oral french

or leaning into it

[wintry tiger]

"t'en veux-t-y looks like a variant of the interrogative particle -tu/-ti, so you can turn that into "tu en veux pas un?"" i dont understand what u mean

[wintry tiger]

l'arabe du futur

[carmine meteor]

So, this is a very common feature of QC French, and something that can be more rarely found in the north of France, moreso among older speakers. Essentially, -t-il, from inversion, got turned into a particle that marks a closed question (like "ka" in Japanese). The pronunciation got reduced from -t-il to -ti (and more recently in Quebec to -tu), and it looks like the author chose to write it as -t-y

So you can interpret "t'en veux-t-y pas un" as "est-ce que tu n'en veux pas un?"

[wintry tiger]

no idea this was a thing

very interesting thank you

[carmine meteor]

it's pretty rare/dated in france (to the point where french natives have told me it doesn't exist there )