Nice sacks artistic director. Not Nice…
mainMarc Adam will leave Nice in October after the city refused him a contract renewal. The highly experienced director has been there just three years. More from our copains at resmusica.
Marc was head of Stadttheater Bern, 2007-11. Before that he ran Lübeck and Rouen.
Norman, I believe that nowadays the word copain is only used to mean boyfriend.
Not necessarily. And the plural is never used to mean boyfriends (except perhaps when uttered by a bigamist). Les copains means friends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rslShTbqNbo
Les copains d’abord…a good english equivalent might be “buddies.”
petit-ami = boyfriend; petite-amie = girlfriend. The pronounciation is the same in both cases.
For our UK friends, copain(s) can also mean mate(s) in the sense of friend.