k&k learn french 20 -
quand les poules auront des dents
We go back down on the farm in show 20, when we talk about things that will never happen : "quand les poules auront des dents".
Listen to our explanation of the phrase :
Literal translation
When the chickens will have some teeth
English equivalent
When pigs fly / When pigs have wings
When monkeys fly out of my butt
When hell freezes over
In a month of Sundays
French equivalent
Jamais
Quand les poules pisseront
Une semaine de quatre jeudis
Frog's phrase
Ouais, le jour où Katia et Kyliemac arrêteront de parler des stylos magiques, euh, les poules auront des dents, hein?
Translation
Yeah, the day that Katia and Kyliemac stop talking about magic pens, oh, pigs will fly, eh!
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Yeah, same here!
from what I gathered on the net real fast, "quand les poules pisseront" seems to be a XIXth century phrase.
I've never heard it in French myself.
Still love your blog, though!
Concerning the expression "la semaine des quatre jeudis", it is quite an old one and comes from the time when children didn't have school on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays, which is currently the case (in primary schools) ;-)
This one is probably going to disappear one day since it really applies to only one generation of people.
Same here ;) "quand les poules pisseront" isn't used at all (never heard of it too)
One would rather use : 'c'est pas demain la veille' or 'on peut toujours rêver...'
Anyway this blog is really amazing ;)
Hi quand les poules pisseront doesn t mean a thing in french... sorry about that... i am french and never heard about such a sentence...