Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of the Français Authentique podcast. And today, I'm going to explain to you the meaning of a French expression well known, obviously, to French speakers, which is "faire une croix sur quelque chose".
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Let's get back to the content and our thailand whatsapp number data expression, "to put a cross on something". So, we start with the verb "to do", which has a lot of meanings. It can mean to act, to accomplish, to execute an action. I think that the verb "to do", you know it, but really depending on the context, you can have very different meanings, very different significations.
A cross is something that can be physical. For example, on a piece of paper, you make two lines that cross. If you take the game "tic-tac-toe" for example, you make crosses, you make a cross and circles. So a cross, I think you see what it is, it's really to make cross... it comes from the verb "croiser" eh... to make two lines that you draw on paper cross, it's a cross.
We can make a cross for example to mark that something is finished. Imagine, if I have a list for example of actions, today, I am going to record podcasts, well I write it on my list, and when I have recorded the podcasts, I make a cross next to it to show that it is done. Or, at school, the teacher can do the roll call and call each student and say: "Okay, Johan, are you there?" I say: "Yes, I am here". And he makes a cross next to my first name, which shows that I am there.