Saturday, May 16, 2020
The Meaning of La Nuit in French S
La nuit, meaning night or dark(ness), is pronounced nwee. It is a frequently used French intransitive noun that most often describes that part of the day when its dark, but its quite common, too, to hear it used figuratively, as a symbol of something dark or fearsome. Expressions Given that night is an unavoidable fact of our lives every single day, its natural that la nuit is used in so many idiomatic expressions. Here are a few: Bonne nuit.  Good night.Il fait nuit.  Its dark.Passer une bonne nuit  to have a good nights sleepUne nuit blanche / une nuit dinsomnie  a sleepless nightUne nuit bleue  a night of terror / a night of bomb attacksUne nuità ©e  an overnight stayLa nuit porte conseil.  Lets sleep on it.La nuit tous les chats sont gris. (proverb)  All cats are grey in the dark.La nuit tombe.  Its getting dark.Rentrer avant la nuit  return before dark / nightfallÀ la nuit tombante, à la tombà ©e de la nuit  at dusk, at nightfallSe perdre dans la nuit des temps  to be lost in the mists of timeCest le jour et la nuit !  Its like night and day!Une nuit à ©toilà ©e  a starry nightFaire sa nuit  sleep through the nightLa nuit de noces  the wedding nightToute la nuit  all night longToutes les nuits  every nightLa nuit d e la Saint-Sylvestre  night of New Years EvePayer sa nuit  to pay for the nightAnimaux de nuit  nocturnal animalsPharmacie de nuit  all-night pharmacy, 24-hour pharmacyTravailler de nuit  to work the night shift, to work nights Parts of the Day (le Jour) Lets make the tour of one 24-hour period, beginning in the middle of the night, when il fait nuit noire, its pitch-black. Chaque jour (every day) as the sun starts to come up, the day begins to go through the following stages: laube (f)  the dawnle matin  the morningla matinà ©e  all morning, the morningla journà ©e  all day long, the day, the daytimele midi  noon, 12 p.m.laprà ¨s-midi (m)  the afternoonle crà ©puscule  dusk, nightfallle soir  the evening, nightla soirà ©e  all evening, eveningla veille de  the eve ofla nuit  the nightle minuit  midnight, 12 a.m.le lendemain  the next day
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