Requesting Translation - French to English

Factual Questions
1

Calling all French speaking Dopers. I need help with a French translation. I sent someone the following message this morning:

The reply I received was:

Babel Fish translates it into:

Doesn’t make any sense but after playing around and removing the the “e” at the end of aussie I get:

I also removed the “e” from the end of m’ennuie and got:

I then removed the “m’” and put the “e” back on to m’ennuie and got:

It seems that the word m’ennuie has a negative meaning. So is my friend trying to tell me I annoy her or that she is bored of me or that I touble her? What was she trying to tell me?

2

The verb ennuyer means to annoy in French. The only reason I have reservations about my interpretation of what she wrote is that she says

and the aussi on the end means also. In the context of the sentence m’ennuie does not seem to fit very well. IMHO she is saying that you are annoying her. But I would wait for someone who speaks French natively to explain it better because I might be missing something that does not directly translate.

3

According to my honking-big Oxford French-English dictionary, the construction s’ennuyer de means* to miss*.

4

That’s exactly it. “Je m’ennuie de vous aussi” (no e in aussi, as Amp suspected) means “I miss you too”.

5

Thanks guys. I can now get through my work day knowing that she isn’t annoyed by me.

6

Avec plaisir!

7

Wow good call liberty3701. Guess who slept during french class? :smack:

8

I only know a little French, but I think a literal translation would be:

Je (I) m’ (myself [object of verb]) ennuie (annoy) de (of) vous (you) aussi (also)

or:

I annoy myself of you also.

Thus, thoughts of you persistently irritate her.

From which it is not a big jump to:

I miss you.

Think of how odd it might be for someone French to try translating: “You are on my mind.”

They may come up with, “You rest upon my head.”

9

:stuck_out_tongue:

10

If you’re at the “I miss you” phase of the relationship, shouldn’t you have graduated to “tu” rather than “vous”?

11

I got the impression that neither of them are native speakers. At least, I hope so.

12

No, neither one of us speak fluent French.