Façon de parler de la personne qui te plaît, sans forcément être en couple avec elle.
A slang expression for someone the speaker is attracted to or has a crush on.
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Mon pain m'a répondu en story, journée sauvée. — My crush replied to my story — day saved.
Mon pain ne sait même pas que j'existe. — My crush doesn't even know I exist.
J'ai croisé mon pain à la boulangerie, ironie totale. — I ran into my crush at the bakery, of all places.
J'ai oublié mon pain à la boulangerie. — I left my bread at the bakery.
Je partage mon pain avec toi. — I'll share my bread with you.
Mon pain est encore chaud. — My bread is still warm.
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Download the app for free French vocabulary test«Pain» is bread, and that is the joke: the person you like is «my bread». The word comes from nouchi, where pain is a clipped form of copain.
It implies nothing mutual — usually your pain has no idea. French took the metaphor all the way: pain brioché is the dream one, pain rassis, stale bread, is the one you have gone off.
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