"Il va falloir jeter le balai qui ne vole plus."
Translation:It is going to be necessary to throw away the broom that doesn't fly anymore.
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This is one of those sentences that I clearly heard "VOLE" however the context seemed goofy. To verify what I heard, I flipped to the word-choice screen and searched for a word that matched the spoken cue. Then returned to the original screen and typed in the word. "vole" from "Voler" to fly — witches fly on brooms; mystery solved!
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I just wanted to say to the English speakers that in the recording the male voice pronounces the "s" at the end of pluS... that's a mistake. In the negative expression : ne... plus the S is silent.
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If you wanted to say "that doesn't work anymore" would you use "qui ne marche plus" even if it's a simple broom?
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Talk about being blindsided! I totally heard this as the broom "qu'ils ne veulent plus" LOL.
I also heard that, so I listened carefully several times to see if it said le balai or les balais. In the end I had it wrong; it didn't occur to me that veulent was really vole.
Yes, they are homophones.
• balai \ba.lɛ
• ballet \ba.lɛ
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/balai
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/ballet https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annexe:Prononciation/fran%C3%A7ais https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annexe:Prononciation/anglais
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It is going to be necessary to throw away the broom that flies no more. Now DUO! You really have to pull yourself together.
Duo, are you doing drugs? In the real life the brooms do not fly. ;0)
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Ha! I wasn't reading closelyand thought it read "doesn't work anymore ". Until I got stuck with an incomplete sentence and the extra word "fly". Cracked up when it hit me.