Intimacy: Today, I learned that "Je suis excité" does not mean "I'm excited"...

By Anonymous - 21/09/2009 14:26 - France

Today, I learned that "Je suis excité" does not mean "I'm excited" in French. It means "I'm sexually excited"... more or less. I've been doing a lot of exciting things and using it a lot the past two weeks. With my French friends, people I meet, and especially with my host family. FML

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By thegoldenboy3 - 12/02/2009 12:14 - Spain

Today, I'm in Spain, and told the kids with whom I will be working that I was excited to be working with them. Only the form of excitement I used apparently refers to sexual excitement. Basically, I told the kids I was sexually aroused to be working with them. FML

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By Anonymous - 19/10/2017 05:00

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By aur - 12/11/2008 08:10 - France

Today, I spent my first night with my English boyfriend. I'm French, and when we woke up, I said in my most sexy voice, "Oh, I'm so dirty!" It's only when he left that I finally understood the look on his face; I wanted to have a glass of water. I was thirsty, not dirty. FML

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By SpanishInFrenchClass - 06/12/2012 05:35 - United States

Today, I had a presentation in French class. I was so nervous, the first thing I said when I got up there was, "Hola." FML

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By Anonymous - 09/09/2011 22:33 - United States

Today, I found out that all the everyday Spanish words and phrases my boyfriend has been teaching me have very vulgar meanings. I found this out after I said a few to our waitress. FML

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Gwyddhien 0

Monday 21 September 2009 20:16

Don't worry... I'm a native French speaker, and "je suis excité" isn't that bad and can be used with non-sexual things as well

sooper 0

Monday 21 September 2009 20:16

Hahaha, they must think you have some great fun ;D

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thedish51 0

Monday 21 September 2009 22:27

Haha the same thing happened to me, only i learned that je suis excite means your sexually excited while i was in french class giving a presentation!! hahaha

movies12 0

Monday 21 September 2009 22:28

I swear i take French and "Je suis excite" means I am excited I am like 100% sure. Yah maybe it means that 2, but it does mean I am excited. So don't worry.

memory_loss_fml 0

Monday 21 September 2009 22:40

It does mean that. But it's not obvious-obvious... if it was something like 'ça m'excite', I would've said FYL, but if you're a less-than-perfect French speaker, "je suis excitée" should be alright ^^ (this is native French-from-France. The funny part of this FML is how none of the natives seem to agree on the meaning XP)

Higurashidb 0

Monday 21 September 2009 22:41

Don't worry, I'm a native french speaker, I would understand what you mean. They all know you was NOT a native speaker and of course you were likely to make this kind of mistakes... And like others people have said... If you don't say something like : Tu m'excites, ou ''ça m'excite'' it's still good. And don't worry. On ''viedemerde'' (vdm) which is the french version of fmylife, we have a lot of vdm about that. For instance a person who have said to a salewoman who asked : ''So, What do you think (about somes clothes)'' ? He answered : ''I'm touching myself''' (yeah, yeah, he SAID it... !!!). Just because in french we have an expression ''Je me tâte'' and it actually means :''I don't know yet'' or I'm hesitating... and he tried to translate this expression literraly. So I think I can assume this case is not much of a concern because your host family knew you were not a native speaker... Not the salewoman. Well, of course, it's always something you don't like to find out... ;)

marie_gal98 0

Tuesday 22 September 2009 11:31

je me tâte, j'adorre cette expression très normande. ptête ben quoui, ptête ben qunon.

XRiseToFallAgain 0

Monday 21 September 2009 22:41

I can't wait for Disneyworld next week! Can you? Of course not! I'M SEXUALLY EXCITED! :)

DieterDerBlau 0

Monday 21 September 2009 23:06

Sounds accurate. Disney loves child molestors. Think I'm lying???

emy_du 0

Monday 21 September 2009 23:02

it actually means both..

alwaysalady 0

Monday 21 September 2009 23:02

Ah, language mistakes. Check out engrish.com, or thingspeoplesaid.com, and then you will feel much better about your... faux pas

BurnednBurn 0

Monday 21 September 2009 23:03

Hahaha you're apart of Katimavik aren't you?

xFaust_fml 12

Monday 21 September 2009 23:05

Don't worry OP. If an English speaking personne tells us that they were really "excité", we get that they translates litteraly from "excited". We're not dumb you know...