Can you speak French?

[marielet]

I’d really like a tattoo that says

“Familiar Hell”
“Unfamiliar Heaven”

I know I can use googled translate but I want to make sure it’s correct.

Why do you want it in French if you don't speak French?

Hell is Enfer. Heaven is paradis. Both masculine nouns.
Different translations for familiar, depending on context. Use word reference.com to find the one you want.

Because I can?

Cringing for you OP

That’s quite sad though. I don’t think I’ve ever felt the need to cringe at a stranger, least of all say it in the hopes of feeling superior. I genuinely couldn’t imagine being that bitter I would hope to hurt someone by typing out a cruel response.

Feel better soon x

It depends what you mean by 'familiar' but assuming you mean 'well known' then:

l'enfer bien connu
le paradis inconnu

But neither of them really make a great deal of sense in French.

Ciel is more what I would use for heaven, so ciel inhabituel. And never familier. But yeah, odd that you want a tat in a language you don’t speak. Makes me think of the people who get stuff in Mandarin eg fried rice. Looks pretty, I guess!

That’s where I would go but it doesn’t quite work as a saying in when translated.

Is it? Ceil for me is sky as in looks to the heavens/sky. The ‘religious” connotation would be paradis.

I let the funky music do the talking

Do it in Chinese characters.
Far less cringey.

I’d have gone

L’enfer connu
Le ciel inconnu

but I’m not a native speaker

It’s ciel (or cieux) in a lot of prayers, like the Lord’s Prayer.

If you go to church in France there’s a lot of talk of Ciel as opposed to Paradis.

I'm probably a bit dim but don’t really get the expression. In English let alone French. I rather suspect you’d get both English and French people thinking “What?”

Id love to know what inspired this and why French.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but to be honest, they don't work that well in English either. Although 'L'enfer Bien Connu' could be an unreleased Serge Gainsbourg song.

Je l’aime. Ah oui je l’aime @Pharazon . Fabulous Serge/Birkin title!

Yeah you’re right thinking about it ‘Notre Pete qui est aux ciel…’

I think the problem is that I don’t think I’d immediately jump to heaven if I read ‘le ciel inconnu’, and I’d be thinking more about space travel (like uncharted waters but for the sky)… but I think with the context of l’enfer connu it’d be clearer…

Père I think, not pété 🤣

Pretty sure that Jean-Paul Vannier wrote the lyrics - it was the B-side for the Indonesian release of 'Ballade de Melody Nelson'. €350 on discogs for an original pressing.

Mince, je voulais dire Jean-Claude pas Jean-Paul...

Sorry clearly predictive text doesn't like French words 😂. I didn’t even attempt accents.

😀😀

Yes, it doesn’t sound great.

What about Arabic.

jahim maluf
janat ghayr malufa

Au ciel or aux cieux

OP, both just don’t really work as French expressions.