Dernière danse by Indila (Advanced): Verse 2 & 3

💬 Dont often means whose, of which, or for which, depending on the verb that follows. Here payer quelque chose gives dont j'ai payé toutes les offenses — literally something like whose offenses I paid for.

💬 Dont replaces a whole de ... idea, so French uses one small word where English may need whose, of which, or for which. You will see it a lot after verbs or phrases built with de.

💬 Écoute is the tu form of écouter, used for telling one person listen. In songs it can sound intimate or direct; with vous it would be écoutez.

💬 The t in est is normally silent, so mon cœur est immense flows roughly like (mohn kur ay-tim-mahns), with the final sound of est linking into the next vowel. That smooth joining is very common before a vowel.

💬 After écoute, French can use comme to mean how: Écoute comme mon cœur est immense. You can reuse that pattern in similar lines like Regarde comme c'est beau.

💬 Enfant can be masculine or feminine, so a woman can say une enfant. The pronunciation stays the same; only the article changes.

💬 Du is the fused form of de + le, so du monde literally packs of the world into one bit. You will see this contraction constantly: du café, du pain, du monde.

💬 Enfant can be either masculine or feminine depending on the person, so une enfant du monde is natural for a female speaker. Many job and person words work this way in modern French.