Pardon My French

So I got a French quiz back a few days ago. It was just on different irregular verbs in different tenses, straight memorization, easy peasy, right?

Wrong.

See, I didn't study all that much in the first place. So when we were asked to conjugate "courir" in the past tense, I couldn't think of the word needed, which was "couru". Instead, I wrote "cu". Not only did I get that entire section wrong, my French teacher also informed me as she was passing back the test that "cu" is a bad word. Turns out, it means "ass" in French. I had literally written "He has ass", "He was having ass", "He would have ass", and "He will have ass" all over my French quiz.

Well, at least I know I'm never going to forget "couru" again... and I now know how to talk about ass in French.

<3 Helen