From sauce pans to legs of lam: The top 15 expressions in French for having sex. Photo: Shutterstock The French language is famous for being the language of love and it's also well known for its vast ...

From setting the table to toasting with belly-buttons via 'doing the wolf dance', the French language contains some truly bizarre (and hilarious) expressions for the act of sexual congress. Here are ...

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Some verbs in French are always used in the third person. This means they always start with il as they are impersonal. In other words, they are general statements not related to any particular person.