Bienvenue.Welcome.
Today I enter the wonderful world of bien. This must be the most flexible word in the French dictionary...
sûr (sure) and bien sûr (of course) are very similar when you respond to someone with enthusiasm, but bien sûr scores for me every time.
Nous regardons la peinture (we look at the painting) does not have the impact that Nous regardons bien la peinture has. Here bien places an emphasis on the action, regardons.
bien could be used in the sense of ‘really’: C’est bien joli. (It really is pretty). Vous avez bien dit ça? (Did you really say that?) You could easy replace this by Vous avez vraiment dit ça?, but the sentence looks more sophisticated with a bien.
Don’t get carried away with bien, however. Respond to “Is the dish good?” with a C’est bon, and respond to Comment allez vous? (How are you?) with a Je vais bien, merci
Hopefully, someone will tell me in the very near future, Vous parlez très bien le français.
Today I enter the wonderful world of bien. This must be the most flexible word in the French dictionary...
sûr (sure) and bien sûr (of course) are very similar when you respond to someone with enthusiasm, but bien sûr scores for me every time.
Nous regardons la peinture (we look at the painting) does not have the impact that Nous regardons bien la peinture has. Here bien places an emphasis on the action, regardons.
bien could be used in the sense of ‘really’: C’est bien joli. (It really is pretty). Vous avez bien dit ça? (Did you really say that?) You could easy replace this by Vous avez vraiment dit ça?, but the sentence looks more sophisticated with a bien.
Don’t get carried away with bien, however. Respond to “Is the dish good?” with a C’est bon, and respond to Comment allez vous? (How are you?) with a Je vais bien, merci
Hopefully, someone will tell me in the very near future, Vous parlez très bien le français.
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