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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on April 26, 2014 at 9:06pm

Hello

choutette ??? or chouette

- "choutette" is not a french word but maybe in a special context it's a play on words. I need to see the whole text ...

- "chouette"  has two common meanings :

1) it's an owl ... but in Paris, I have never seen an owl (sadly) ...

2) it's frequently used to say that something is very nice, well, great ... it's more certainly that meaning in a blog about Paris.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on April 26, 2014 at 9:12pm

Merci, that is perfect because they were talking about a new boutique, so must be very nice!

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Permalink Reply by Jacques Fabre on May 3, 2014 at 7:48pm

"Chouette", in its offhand use, means "nice, pleasant, terrific, fantastic, great", etc. It can be used as an adjective ("Ce chanteur, il est vraiment chouette !", but also, isolated, as an interjection ("- Demain, il n'y a pas classe... - Chouette !")

Though still in frequent use in these meanings, this word is a little bit old-fashioned... Young French people would now preferably say : "Cool !" (yes, French people...)

J.

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Permalink Reply by Charles D on May 3, 2014 at 10:31pm

A bit of Franglish, that.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on May 4, 2014 at 5:46am

Merci! That was a great explanation!!

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Permalink Reply by Barbara on May 4, 2014 at 2:18pm

Thank you very much for your kind reply!

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