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| Chaque anniversaire est un cadeau. Chaque jour est un cadeau. // Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift. -- Aretha Franklin 🐱 Et voici le tien ! // And here is yours! -- Sumo Wrestler Cat |
Here is the cat, wishing all birthday people out there a happy birthday. And a happy day to all people out there.
By coincidence, today's Inktober prompt is "knot" - "nœud" in French. So here you have it, too.
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| c’est mon anniversaire aujourd’hui // it’s my birthday today |
Once I’ve finished drawing a туева хуча (pardon my Russian, it means, er... an awful lot) of candles, and started adding flames I automatically counted them and SUDDENLY! realized that this awful lot was not nearly enough to represent my actual age. Jeez.
Aaanyway... Not sure why the sumo wrestler cat from the previous post crawled into the pic, but here he is.
I promised myself a little prezzie from stationery shop for every week I manage to make as many posts as we had classes. I am looking forward to another Koi pen-brush, they are great.
Pictures related to birthdays, cakes, candles and things @ Shutterstock.
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| Le cheval a huit ans / The horse is eight years old |
This time the phrase comes from Duolingo site. I thought it was rather adorable and lends itself well to a little drawing.
Judging by the discussion under the phrase, native English speakers find it difficult to accept that age construction can contain verb “to have” (“avoir” in French, “a” in third person singular) and not the equivalent of “to be”. Fortunately I have already passed though this stage with Spanish. Spaniards also “have” their years, not “are” them, if I may say so.
Come to think of it, the Russian construction “Тебе сколько лет?” — “Мне 50”, implies by the grammatical cases that somebody went and gave the years to the speaker. I.e., the question can be interpreted as “How many years (were given to) you?” and the answer “I (was given) 50”. If so, Russians also “have” their years.
