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The above audio sample and transcription is from Aya Nakamura’s “40%”. Songwriters: Aya Danioko 40% lyrics © Warner Chappell Music France, Soc Sony ATV Allegro Music Publishing France, Blue Sky Publishing, Perspective Productions, Label 67, Universal Music Publishing Group. We do not own the content, we are using it for educational purposes. Listen to the entire song here.
Stop that
In this clip, in Aya’s youtube she has the phrase as “arrêtes moi ça” and in other lyrics, and grammatically correct I believe it’s “arrête-moi ça”. I’ve decided to use “arrête-moi ça” for the purpose of this post.
My listening is improving, and there’s no way I can stop this now project now.
I obviously don’t want to sound like Aya, but it’s fun to try to piece together what she’s saying, and then struggle through what she means.
How much of this snippet are you understanding?
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I struggle with hearing individual words in English songs, in my native tongue. It takes a couple listens to really get it..
The snippet in English
Find a translation of this snippet here, how much of this did you hear?
Tu fais la gueule, arrête-moi ça
C’était qu’un jeu, redescends
You’re being moody, stop that
That was just a game, don’t get ahead of yourself
The above text from Aya Nakamura’s Youtube channel. Source. Songwriters: Aya Danioko 40% lyrics © Warner Chappell Music France, Soc Sony ATV Allegro Music Publishing France, Blue Sky Publishing, Perspective Productions, Label 67, Universal Music Publishing Group
What does “arrête-moi ça” mean?
“Arrête-moi ça” is a French phrase that can be translated to “Stop that” or “Put a stop to that” in English.
It is an idiomatic expression that is used to demand that someone stops doing something, it is a way to ask someone to stop an action or behavior that the speaker finds undesirable or unacceptable. The phrase “arrête-moi ça” is a imperative form, the verb “arrêter” means “to stop” and “ça” means “that” the combination of the two gives the meaning of “stop that”
For example:
- “Arrête-moi ça tout de suite” which means “Stop that right now.”
- “Il fait trop de bruit, arrête-moi ça” which means “He’s making too much noise, stop that.”
It is used to demand that someone stops doing something, it is a way to ask someone to stop an action or behavior that the speaker finds undesirable or unacceptable, it’s a way to tell someone to stop doing something that is bothering the speaker.
What words did you look up in this snippet?
This is the chorus, I looked up these words before in this post:
fais la gueule
jeu
redescends
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