La Langue

I think the thing that will take the most getting used to is that French do not have a verb for “to get”…I’m pretty sure 85% of the sentences that I form in my head when thinking about what I am going to say before saying it have the word ‘get’ in them. Where can I get some change? How do I get there? When do the kids get out of school? UGH we are so lazy - we have one verb for to describe like 20 different things and I don’t even really know how to define “to get” anyway.

But the good thing about this is I am forced to get (dammit) creative with the words…so instead of getting change - where can I obtain (ou obtenir) and get out of school = retourner ou partir or any of the other many different words there are for “to leave”