Talk:leven als God in Frankrijk

Parallels
🇨🇬. PUC – 16:42, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Some sources give a French cognate, an even clearer parallel. Are you familiar with that turn of phrase? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  18:37, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm not, but fr.wikt has an entry for  (not familiar with that either), where other parallels are given: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Yiddish men ist azoy wie Gott in Frankreich. PUC – 18:43, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Most of these are of the form "happy/content like God in France", but the Yiddish one means "one is like God in France". It's also curious that the French version dropped bon and the article as well. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  19:22, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Note that you don't say "**bon Dieu" without the article (bon Dieu is an interjection) or "**le Dieu" with an article: it's always "le bon Dieu" or "Dieu". PUC – 19:29, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am familiar with that feature. That is rather normal behaviour for proper nouns with attributive adjectives, it is probably like that in most European languages with definite articles. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  19:33, 26 December 2020 (UTC)