I needed to find the french phrase for 'I'm feeling under the weather' or 'feeling run down' - our dictionary and the online translation we looked up said 'je me sens couler', but our doctor did not understand. So I tried to explain in French and her English was not good enough as she thought I might be depressed (not yet, anyway!) or fatigued. Does anyone know this phrase in French - too late for this time, but might be useful to note in our dictionary for future.
Pretty well.
When in more doubt point and 'grunt'.
Hi Pamela
What I would also suggest is that you note down all of your physical symptoms (google translate if necc!) and hand it over to your doctor. The vast majority of the medical profession can read, if not speak, English well enough to work with this. Plus, the written word is often easier for people to understand your accent. And again, most docs will look at at list that says "I'm having trouble sleeping, I've lost my appetite, I'm tired all the time" etc. etc. to then make the connection and dot the i's and cross the t's and say "Aha" - or the French equivalent....
Good luck! And happy to help if needed? x
mmm - normally I don't go to the doctor, and if I just 'don't feel well', I don't go to the doctor. The phrase I want is something to describe how you feel when for example you have a strep throat and feel like you are going downhill....
No, sorry, nothing to do with food - l'assiette is your seat on a horse, so if you aren't in your assiette you are all wobbly and vulnerable-feeling.
I've always said, "Je ne suis pas bien" and then been too lazy to look for a better expression when I was feeling fine again. I finally did (on wordreference), and got "je ne suis pas dans mon assiette'.
For us, its all about low-pressure fronts; for the French it comes back to food. Just about sums it up really!
Je ne suis pas en forme; ça ne va pas très bien; je ne me sens pas bien (etc)
"je me sens couler" wouldn't mean anything to us as it means (literally) "I feel myself sinking"
I hope this helps!