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French Insult

Brûle en enfer - Burn in hell

Ferme la bouche - Shut your mouth
Il est stupide - He is stupid

On t'a bercé trop près du mur? - As a child, was your cradle rocked too close to the wall?

Se coucher avec - Sleep with / Have s*x with

T'as une tête a faire sauter les plaques d'egouts! - You've got a face that would blow off manhole covers!
Tu es betes comme tes pieds - You are as smart as the bottom of your feet
Tu es completement débile - You're a complete moron
Tu es con - You're an idiot
Tu es un pu**in - You are a slut

Vous avez le cervau d'un sandwich au fromage - You have the brain of a cheese sandwich
Vous avez le corps d'un chien et le QI d'une durée de cinq ans - You have the body of a dog and the IQ of a five year old
Vous êtes stupide - You are stupid
Vous êtes une pomme de terre avec le visage d'un cochon d'inde - You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig
Vous sentez comme le boeuf et le fromage - You smell like beef and cheese
Zut - Darn

Conjugation: le passé composé
Many of The French Tutorial users sent me messages asking to explain the "passé composé" (perfect).
The passé composé is one of those tenses rather difficult to learn for a foreigner... Why? Because again, you'll have to learn by heart a lot of things.
Anyway, you are reading this and you will see by yourself in a few minutes ;-)
How it works
The main thing to remember is this construction:
Subject avoir
or être
in the present Past participle
Vous avez mangé tôt.
J' ai terminé mon travail à 14:00.
Je suis parti à la piscine.
Nous sommes allés en vacances à Royan.

Past participle agreement
OK, so first you have to learn by heart which verbs are using être and which others are using avoir but ... That's not all!
Remember also that the past participle agrees with the subject when the auxiliary is être.
Let's conjugate rester (to stay) to illustrate this rule.
rester
masculine subject rester
feminine subject to stay
je suis resté je suis restée I have stayed
or
I stayed
tu es resté tu es restée you have stayed
or
you stayed
il est resté elle est restée he/she has stayed
or
he/she stayed
nous sommes restés nous sommes restées we have stayed
or
we stayed
vous êtes restés vous êtes restées you have stayed
or
you stayed
ils sont restés elles sont restées they have stayed
or
they stayed
Don't make the past participle agree with the subject when using avoir as an auxiliary. Agreement with the direct object
This rule is one of the most difficult in French (even French people have trouble with it!).
The past participle agrees with the direct object when it is located before avoir auxiliary.
Subject Direct Object
before avoir avoir
in the present Past participle
Nous les avons envoyés hier.
Je l' (=la) ai apprise par coeur.
Some examples:
J'ai envoyé les lettres hier. Je les ai envoyées hier.
I sent the letters yesterday. I sent them yesterday.
Pierre a pris la voiture pour aller au ski. Pierre l'a prise.
Pierre took the car to go skiing. He took it.
Elle a vérifié les résultats trois fois. Elle les a vérifiés trois fois.
She checked the results three times. She checked them three times.

Examples
Here are a few more examples:
Elle a commencé à travailler chez Renault
She has begun to work at Renault's.
Je suis rentré ce matin.
I came back this morning.
Les gens n'ont pas compris.
People did not understand.
Nous avons appris la leçon.
We have learnt the lesson.
Ils ont commencé la réunion sans nous.
They have started the meeting without us.
être and avoir at perfect
être (to be), avoir (to have) in the perfect tense follow the same rules as others:
être
English French
I have been j'ai été
you have been tu as été
he/she has been il/elle a été
we have been nous avons été
you have been vous avez été
they have been ils ont été

Example
J'ai été surprise de te revoir.
I've been surprised to see you again.
avoir
English French
I have had J'ai eu
you have had tu as eu
he/she has had il/elle a eu
we have had nous avons eu
you have had vous avez eu
they have had ils/elles ont eu
Example
Ils ont eu des problèmes.
They've had some troubles.