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A2 French listening practice · Québec French · Curated for beginners
What does “ça te vieillit” mean in French?
On its own, vieillir means to grow old. Aim it at someone else and it flips to “make look older”: ça te vieillit is what people say about grey hair, a haircut or a coat — “it ages you.” French runs a whole family of appearance verbs this way, so a garment can te grossir (make you look bigger) or te rajeunir (make you look younger) with no extra words.
The same verbs turn reflexive when the effect is deliberate: se vieillir de deux ans is making yourself look older on purpose. And vieillir keeps a kinder reading for things rather than people — wine, cheese and leather vieillissent bien, which is a compliment.
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