Hello, dear friends! Thank you for joining me for this new episode of Authentic French or at least the Authentic French podcast. Today, we are going to study together an expression which is "au trente-sixième dessous". In less than 10 minutes, you will know the meaning of the words that make up this expression, you will perfectly understand the meaning of the expression and you will have discovered examples and we will even work on your pronunciation, so stay with me.
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That being said, thank you for your help, we move on to explaining the words that make up this expression "au trente-sixième dessous".
"Thirty-sixth" is easy, it's level or rank 36. First is level 1; fifth is level 5; thirty-sixth is level 36 or place number 36.
And "below" indicates the position taiwan whatsapp number data of one thing in relation to another, and in this case, it's lower, it's under, below, it's lower, so it's lower. If for example I'm sitting on a chair and on the floor there's a pencil, well the pencil, the pen, which is on the floor, it's below, it's under me, because there's a level, it's at a level that's lower, quite simply.
So we can ask ourselves, at the thirty-sixth below, so we are below, that is to say lower and we are at level 36, so very very low it seems. We can ask ourselves what is the origin of this expression.
So an explanation would be to know that in the vocabulary of the theater, when we talk about the undersides, these are the levels below the stage where we can find the props, the technicians, the stagehands. You know that the stage is a little raised. And below, so the undersides of the stage, are where we find the props, the costumes, the people who are there for the lighting, the technique etc. At the Paris Opera, there were three undersides, that is to say three levels, one underside, even lower, another underside, even lower, another underside.