One of the things that came up in conversation last night was how to say ‘to save’ in French. As is often the case, there are a number of different translations of this word, depending on the context:<\/p>\n
sauver<\/strong> = to save (person, animal, jewels, building etc), rescue, salvage There is also a reflexive version of this verb, se sauver<\/strong>, which means to run away, to be off. For example, Il s’est sauv\u00e9 \u00e0 toutes jambes<\/em> (He ran away as fast as he could); Allez, je me sauve!<\/em> (Right, I’m off! \/ I’m out of here!). <\/p>\n When you want to talk about saving money, time or energy the word to use \u00e9conomiser<\/strong>. For example, vous \u00e9conomisez un euro si vous achetez 3 pacquets<\/em> (You save a euro if you buy 3 packets). If you’re talking about putting money, food or other things aside for a rainy day though, the expression to use is mettre de c\u00f4t\u00e9<\/strong> or garder<\/strong>. For example, il garde les vieux journaux pour les bonnes \u0153uvres<\/em> (he’s saving (up) old newspapers for charity).<\/p>\n The French equivalents for ‘to save a goal’ are emp\u00eacher de marquer<\/em>, faire un blocage<\/em> or sauver un but<\/em>.<\/p>\n The word sauver<\/strong> comes from the Old French salver\/sauver<\/em>, from the late Latin salv\u0101re<\/em> (to save), from the Latin salvus<\/em> (safe, secure, immune from punishment, intact, undamaged), from the Proto-Indo-European base *sol-<\/em> (whole). The English words save, safe, salvage, salver, saviour and salvation come from the same roots.<\/p>\n Sources: Reverso<\/a>, OED<\/a>, Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a>, and Collins Robert French Dictionary<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things that came up in conversation last night was how to say ‘to save’ in French. As is often the case, there are a number of different translations of this word, depending on the context: sauver = to save (person, animal, jewels, building etc), rescue, salvage – sauver la vie \u00e2\/de qcn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n – sauver la vie \u00e2\/de qcn = to save sb’s life
\n – sauver sa peau = to save one’s skin, neck, hide
\n – sauver son \u00e2me = to save one’s soul
\n – sauver les apparences = to keep up appearances
\n – sauver la face = to save face
\n – sauve-qui-peut = stampede \/ every man for himself \/ run for your life<\/p>\n