LEARN FRENCH
Here’s what to do if you want to learn modern French: Contact me to hire me as your private tutor. Or do a websearch that ends up on my supersweetsecretawesome french-learning web page.
I love French and everybody else will too. Soon. If you don’t love it, you should consider therapy. Or learn to use French as therapy.
Slang= jtdr- je te dire (’I'm telling you’ or ‘I’m saying’)
pk- parce que (because)
Bonjour- (bon-szjoor) Hello
Salut- (sal-loo) Hey
Au revoir- (aureh vwar) Goodbye
Je m’appelle…- (szjuh map ell) My name is…
And so on and so forth
Well I would love to add more here. A ton. This is definitely a concentration of mine, though I haven’t been concentrating herein.
Ouf- crazy- that’s a good one- it’s actually ‘fou’ but they say ‘ouf’ because it is verlan, or l’envers, the inverse. it’s cool to invert words. check it.
So now I will add a list of slang or idiomatic expressions for those of you who know French or want to misuse some of their language (as you inevitably will without really knowing it):
Francais familier- (Familiar or informal French- it has the regular French word following it then the English translation)
Fou is my favorite word. It means crazy. Folle is the feminine of it, but I call myself ‘fou’ still.
Bistro- bar
Restau- restaurant
Proprio- propriétaire (proprietor)
Pif- le nez (nose)
Pinard- vin (wine)
Flotte (m)- eau (water)
Flic- policier, keuf (police)
Mec- homme, le type (man)
Costard- en costume (in costume)
Ras le bol- (en) avoir assez (to have had enough)
Bagnole (f)- voiture (car)
Godasses- les chaussures, un/e pompe (shoes)
Chouette- excellent
Futal- pantalon (pants)
Pif (m)- nez (nose)
Tifs- cheveux (hair)
Bide (m)- ventre (stomach)
Fêlé (m)- cracked, like crazy (fou)
Clopes- cigarettes
Téloche- télévision
Cinoche- cinéma (movies)
Calendos (m)- camembert (Camembert cheese)
Dingue- fou, ouf (crazy)
Pinces- pied (feet)
Pot (m)- verre (glass)
Tronche (f)- tête (head)
Truc (m)- chose (thing)
Crècher- habiter/dormir (to sleep)
Draguer qqn- faire la cour (flirt with someone)
Flinger quelqu’un- tirer, tuer qqn (se flinger- se suicider) (kill someone/commit suicide)
Serrer la pince- serrer la main (shake hands)
J’ai les jetons- J’ai peur (I’m scared- literally ‘I have the tokens’)
Virer- licencier (to fire)
(sorry these aren’t better for now)
BON
BEN
BOEUF
I took this comment from this video of an a cappella group in the metro in Paris.
“a eux seul il peuve fer une teuf pk y a pa tt le monde ki jump la”
my translation: (formal french first, then english)
“c’est a eux seul ils peuvent faire une fete (teuf is verlans for fete) parce que il n’y a pas tout le monde qui ‘jump’ la”
“it’s only them who can party like that because not everyone is ‘jumping’ there”- basically not everyone’s having a party like them
I want to do more things like that because it’s fun to see the French equivalent of language like ‘lol’, n’est-ce pas?!?
subjects-
je- I
tu- you (singular, informal)
il/elle/on- he/she/someone or we-ish
nous- we
vous- you (plural, formal)
ils/elles- they
putain (don’t say that, it’s a bad word)
Mon ami (moan ah mee)- my friend, everyone can say this one!
Au contraire (oh kon trayr)- to the contrary, I beg to differ, etcetera, very commonly used in English