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“Pour que tu m'aimes encore” meaning

Céline Dion · 1995 · 🇨🇦 Québec · Level B1

Céline Dion's 1995 French hit, written by Jean-Jacques Goldman: she'd change everything so he would love her again.

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What the song is about

In “Pour que tu m'aimes encore” (so that you love me again), a woman knows her partner's love is fading. She refuses to just accept it: she'll go and find his heart wherever it has gone, change her looks, learn new words and new ways — whatever it takes for him to love her again.

Written by Jean-Jacques Goldman for Céline Dion's 1995 album D'eux, it became the best-selling French-language album ever, and this song topped the charts in France for weeks.

Céline, from Québec, sings with perfect clarity. The title is a textbook example of “pour que” + subjunctive (so that…), and the verses are a list of future promises: j'irai, je changerai, j'apprendrai.

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Level B1 · Clear, powerful, the subjunctive

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