{"id":6696,"date":"2012-02-28T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6696"},"modified":"2012-02-28T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:38:52","slug":"demenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6696","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9m\u00e9nager"},"content":{"rendered":"

In French if you want to talk about movement in general you use bouger<\/em>, but for moving house you use d\u00e9m\u00e9nager<\/em>. The other day a friend pointed out that the root of d\u00e9m\u00e9nager<\/em> is m\u00e9nage<\/em> (housework, housekeeping, household, married couple), as in m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois<\/em>, from the Old French manage<\/em>, from manoir<\/em> (manor, country house), from the Latin manere<\/em> (manner, fashion, way).<\/p>\n

D\u00e9m\u00e9nager<\/em> can also mean to leave, get lost, clear out, to be crazy, and related words include:<\/p>\n

– emm\u00e9nager = to move in (to a house)
\n– un dem\u00e9nageur = furniture mover
\n– un dem\u00e9nagement = removal, moving
\n– d\u00e9m\u00e9nager \u00e0 la cloche de bois = to sneak off in the middle of the night
\n– \u00c7a d\u00e9m\u00e9nage ! = It’s great\/brilliant!<\/p>\n

As well as d\u00e9m\u00e9nager<\/em>, there are a few other French words for movement:<\/p>\n

– bouger, remuer = to move (general)
\n– \u00e9voluer = to move (events, politics)
\n– circuler = to move, circulate (traffic); move along (get out of the way)
\n– avancer = to move (vehicle), advance, move along\/forward
\n– voyager = to move about (from place to place), travel
\n– se d\u00e9placer = to move about (in a room or house)
\n– s’\u00e9loigner, s’en aller = to move off
\n– se pousser = to move over
\n
\nSources: Reverso<\/a>, french.about.com<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In French if you want to talk about movement in general you use bouger, but for moving house you use d\u00e9m\u00e9nager. The other day a friend pointed out that the root of d\u00e9m\u00e9nager is m\u00e9nage (housework, housekeeping, household, married couple), as in m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois, from the Old French manage, from manoir (manor, country house), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696","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=6696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}