I can't take my eyes off you

[chuchu803]

Bonjour,
how to translate "i can't take my eyes off of you" to french?
"Je ne peux pas oter mes yeux de toi"
c'est correct?

 

[charlie2]

Perhaps "je ne peux pas te quitter des yeux"?

 

[mapping]

chuchu,
although your sentence is gramatically correct, noone would ever say that in France. charlie's sentence is much better.
and you can also say:
Je n'arrive pas à te quitter des yeux

 

[broglet]

Woody Allen a dit a sa copine dans un taxi: "You're so beautiful, I can hardly keep my eyes on the meter"

By the way, the English in your thread title should be "off you" not "off of you"

 

[watergirl]

By the way, the English in your thread title should be "off you" not "off of you"

Are you sure, broglet? I think we say it either way.
I'm reminded of an old song: "You're just too good to be true...Can't take my eyes off of you...You feel like heaven to touch...I wan't to hold you so much..."

 

[eyesofsky]

It's an American thing; in Britain that's grammatically incorrect.

 

[Nelny]

Woody Allen a dit a sa copine dans un taxi: "You're so beautiful, I can hardly keep my eyes on the meter"

By the way, the English in your thread title should be "off you" not "off of you"

Hello,
Yes, I agree, "off you"...
"Je ne peux pas te quitter des yeux" or "je n'arrive pas à détourner mon regard de toi"

 

[broglet]

Are you sure, broglet? I think we say it either way.
I'm reminded of an old song: "You're just too good to be true...Can't take my eyes off of you...You feel like heaven to touch...I wan't to hold you so much..."

Thanks for that, watergirl. I think it must be AE, as eyesofsky opines. In the song you quote they might have just stuck the "of" in for metrical reasons; it doesn't make much difference to its poetic value either way! Another "pleonastic 'of' " that I believe originated in America but has now become common in the UK is to be seen in such phrases as "all of the presidents ..."

 

[Crescent]

I was wondering if one would be able to say: Je ne peux pas/je n'arrive pas à tirer mes yeux de toi!
Or does that remind everyone of paper or cloth tearing,is too literal, and sounds far too strange?

 

[Olympus_france]

I advise to write :

Je ne peux te quitter du regard
or
Je ne parviens à te quitter des yeux
or
Je ne parviens à te quitter du regard
or
Je ne parviens à te quitter des yeux.


My preference goes to : Je ne parviens à te quitter des yeux.

Ces quatre formulations sont très correctes et rendent bien l'idée de "cannot" et de "off you".

Olympus, Frenchgirl.

 

[Olympus_france]

Sorry, the second sentence must be read as follows:
Je ne peux te quitter des yeux.

Bonne soirée
Olympus.

 

[chuchu803]

Merci à tous
btw, it's《the blower's daughter》lyrics

Broglet, Thank you so much.
but i don't know how to change the thread title...

 

[geostan]

Are you sure, broglet? I think we say it either way.
I'm reminded of an old song: "You're just too good to be true...Can't take my eyes off of you...You feel like heaven to touch...I wan't to hold you so much..."

One word of caution: never use song lyrics to justify usage. The grammar is often atrocious.