french slang you need to know
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I wanted to go through some slang and common phrases that I hear all the time living in France because spoken and written French are two different stories 😭. I hope you find these helpful!
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0:00 : Intro
0:45 : Verlan
3:23 : Common words/phrases
5:49 : How to complain
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I am French but still watching the entire video hahaha j’adore
awww all my love!
Haha same here! I'm French too! Congrats it's super well explained and accurate! 👌
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same
Moi aussiiiiiii haha
i’m french and i just want to warn you that “teuf” can also be used as a kind of party which is like an techno/electro event where people basically gather to dance (sometimes it’s illegal so be careful) this is not for every teuf because it depends of the party and the friends you have !
omg thanks for letting me know!
yes , it's the french word for rave party
on l'utilise pour n'importe quelle fête (en tout cas même dans les années 90/2000 c'était déjà le cas) pas juste pour un seul type de fête et ça à tjr été le cas.
mais qu'est ce que tu racontes c'est utilisé dans littéralement tous les contextes
@@dakys3660 C'est pas parce que tu connais pas le sens restreint qu'il existe pas fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_party
Hey! I'm French and I've been living in England for 6 months now, and let me tell you that I've never met an English person with an accent as good as yours 😲 Congrats for all of the hard-work and keep going!!
I’m English and I moved to Southern France about a year ago! I hope you like it in England. 😅🤍
@@o9740 I was talking about your French accent of course! It's really good so that's why I complimented you, as a French person I wouldn't dare judging English people's English accent ahah 😆 Thanks, hoping that you like the South as well 😉
@@marie-noelledouard9032 her mum is french which is why her accent is rlly good she grew up with her mum speaking french yk
as an english person learning french i was so impressed too i find it very hard to talk in french without my accent showing at least a little
@@georgia957 So French is her mother tongue.
As a french I can tell that you learn the parisian expressions ! It's really fun to see someone teach the things which are instinctive for me xD
En vrai elle parle bien le parisien limite mieux que le français mdrr
@@klaouchie je suis d’accord que le ton parisien est super bien maitrisé, le problème c’est que pour le reste de la France il est très méprisant
@@aloxoot966 oui en même temps c'est pas vraiment un accent c'est plus des tics de language
@@klaouchie qu'est ce que ce mdrr? je parle pas le français et je sais pas que c'est
@@ahmed-sl3gn It is when you laugh like "lmao" . Mdr = mort de rire (die by laughing)
For the "pas mal de", to make more general rule, we french make an overuse of litotes (the figure of speech) : Pas mal => bien ou beaucoup Pas dégueu => délicieux Pas mauvais => bon Pas excellent => vraiment nul Pas top, pas terrible, pas ouf => mauvais When we say things more directly like "c’est vraiment mauvais" especially about a negative comment, it means that we want to emphasis the sentence, making it hurtful or wanting a reaction.
so like if u wanna say it’s delicious u don’t say c’est délicieux mais on dit c’est pas degueu ?
@@joanne0 you can say "c’est délicieux", but when you say that, you’re making an emphasis on the positive comment, making it really really strong.
@@stera182 ah cool thanks. so if im just having a casual cknvo and saying something tastes nice i wld more likley use the second version
Please make more of these videos! They are so helpful. Thank you so much for making this
You explain things so enthusiastically! I didn't skip a second of your video!
edit : check the comments below, it explains my point better than i tried to (: as a French native speaker (living in France), i didn't know "cramer" with the meaning you gave. for me, it means (as a slang word) that someone or something(that was supposed to be ~undercover~) a été démasqué example : -mes parents veulent pas que j'aille à la fête/teuf/soirée de mon amie. ma sœur va m'aider à y aller en douce pour pas que je me fasse cramer. but i'm glad I learned that it doesn't only have the meaning i used to know (: great video btw !!
Ouais c’est ce que je me suis dit
@@sana-yo6bk peut-être elle voulais dire "crevé" et non pas "cramer" ?
@@marijastrapcane6566 ou claqué, and for me when something is "cramé" as an adjective it's that it's something you hide but like really bad you're gonna get caught soon like 'azy ton tel pendant le contrôle c'est cramé il va te voir"
@@marijastrapcane6566 crevé, cramé, c'est pareil. Cramoisi, aussi... ^^
perso j'utilise cramer dans les deux sens, le sens cramer à cause du sport, "j'ai trop couru je me suis cramé" et le sens que tu as donné
I’ve learned quite a few of these watching French series like Dix Pour Cent, Plan Cœur & Family Business, but even with the words/phrases I knew your video was so helpful in explaining the nuances in how & when they’re used! Loved this, and having watched a lot of learning French KZhead vids your style of explaining is lovely, super useful & very endearing too! Please do more like this! :)
I had the same story with “la flemme” when I first arrived in France hahaha. And also, the way you edit the videos is amazing!!! Continue! 🤩
aha aw thank youuu :))
Me too hahaha
we are together😂😂😂
So incidentally as i found your channel, so helpful as it is, so natural as it is, i will seize it for a big while onwards. My thanks for meeting such a guide around here, you’re amazing
Flemme is a national sport
Native french speaker here! I just wanted to add one more word which I use. All. The. Time. “Genre” Which is basically the equivalent to “like”, although the word can also mean “gender” or “genre” (as in music) Ex: Genre tu vois la prof de math. Like you see the math teacher Non mais c’est genre, hyper difficile No but it’s like, super difficult Hope that can be of any help! OH AND Meuf also has a verlan version which is feumeu (idk how you spell it actually)
@@cuber759 not quite - the "o" is actually a nasal "en/an"! The difference is subtle and I think it's somewhat dependent on accent, but it's the "correct" way
@@cuber759 perso j'ai toujours rencontré des gens qui disent genre et non jore
@@cuber759 ouais ça dépend des endroits, avant je disais jore et mtn genre
feumeu is actually the verlan of meuf, so it's a double verlan lol
and the "eu" are pronounced like in the word "feu" which means "fire" :)
Im 14 and I’ve been learning French now for a few years I love your videos sm! Post more of these svp!!
Thanks for the informative video! Your mannerisms and video editing are hilarious - makes learning fun!
Please keep up, I'm a French student with little time to study, so I very much appreciate this!!!
hearing you speaking french while being french is a real délice 🌟
Thank you for great slang lession!
Loved these, merci!
I love thisss, thank you so much for posting babes
love your energy
Thank you ! Making the attempt to learn French. This really was a great boost in that direction.
Please do more videos like this.. they’re so helpful
okay! glad they're helpful :)
This video is perfect… short and sweet.
parfait ! j'ai adoré ! que des bons mots à utiliser dans la vie de tous les jours
un bijou. trés utile, merci!
Useful class. Merci beaucoup!!❤❤😍
French here, just watching by curiosity and I confirm that all you said is very accurate, well done! It's just worth mentioning that some of those words and expression are reasonably recent (kiffer ou avoir le seum, par example) which mean you would probably not hear them often from 30yo+ French people and the older generation may not even understand them (or if they do, they'll probably roll their eyes because they tend to consider more recent evolutions of our language not being French at all). Also, I've never thought of it but avoir la flemme does sound like avoir la phlegm and can, indeed, be confusing. It's particularly true considering you rarely say "J'ai la flemme" with a broad smile on your face so, I can fully see that expression being a problem for none French speakers. That was a great anecdote to share with the viewers. Finally, I wanted to point out that your accent is very nice and smooth. I imagine your mother tongue is English and if I'm correct, I know for a fact that some sounds can be fairly tricky to get right for English speakers so, good job for that too. Votre vidéo était très intéressante à regarder et les expressions dont vous parlez sont parfaitement corrects. Beau travail ^^
merci beaucoup pour votre commentaire! :)
J'ai rigolé du passage sur les 30+ qui connaissent pas les nouveaux mots :D Les mots que tu cite viennent pour la plupart de l'arabe et des dialectes du Maghreb, kif ça fait référence a la résine de cannabis, seum = poison, wesh = comment va ?, miskine, sbeul, zob, claoui ...etc la liste est longue. Mais c'est peut être car j'ai vécu en banlieue.
@@leap7667 Oui, tu as raison, notre langue a subit une influence des langues du Maghreb, ce qui est logique quand on regarde notre histoire et l’évolution de notre population. En fait, le Français a subit des influences de pas mal d'autres cultures. Il y a beaucoup de termes Anglais (weekend, okay, faire un break, burnout ect) par exemple (et l'Anglais a récupérer beaucoup de termes Français en échange (déjà vue, cuisine, mise en scene...Globalement tout ce qui attrait a la chevalerie: Cuissarde, gorget, épaulette, destrier ect). Je ne suis pas un spécialiste des langues d'une manière générale, mais je suis certain qu'on peut trouver d'autres influence, probablement Africaine et peut être même Asiatique.
ou encore l expresion genre en pleIn milieu d une phrase un vrai pb
@@GenLiu J'ai 35 piges et je t'assure que ces expressions (à part avoir le seum qui s'est répandue plus tard, après les années 2000) étaient partout au collège. La génération de ceux nés dans les années 80/début 90 est littéralement la génération de la France "blacks blancs beurs". Je me souviens de "beur" et "rebeu/robeu" alors que je devais avoir pas plus de 8 ans, c'est dire !
This was awesome; new subscriber here. Thanks!👍😊 (I had watched quite a few similar videos on the topic, but still found yours to be very helpful.)
On point! Complaining section : hilarious! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
i feel good looking at you talking ....your energy is warm and sweet......thanks for this content
I'm French and I loved your video. So funny to notice all the weird and special words/expressions we have. Thank you! It's also always so cute and priceless to hear someone with a foreign accent using these idiomatic expressions. Love it!
The editing on this was perfect.
Thank you for that information.
I immediately knew the meaning of la flemme since my native language is Spanish and it sounds like ‘ tengo la flama’ which we as Spanish speakers never say, but holding the flame (which is what tengo la flama means) sounds like we’re holding fire and anything near is in danger. Thanks for the video it really helps a lot!
que dices, si flama se dejó de usar hace siglos y ahora se dice llama. Además que avoir la flemme significa que te da pereza no que estas en peligro. Osea que no inventes
@@anaf9001 te digo, nunca lo decimos, pero te aseguro que todos sabemos su significado por alguna razón, no invento! En serio pensé en eso inmediatamente cuánto la escuché decirlo. Pero ya me dejaste en duda, osa con el vídeo entendí que avoir la flemme es estar enojado en plan "no me hablen" pero ahora estás diciendo que es estar cansado y pues ya no entendí 😂😂 aunque ahora que lo pienso tiene más sentido que esté cansada todas las mañanas a que esté enojada todas las mañanas lol
@@nati4218 yes it's to be lazy to have the laziness I'd say ? Not being angry ;)
@@Spike-jb8gf Great to know, thanks for confirming that to me ^u^
@@nati4218 De nada ;)
Loved the video, been in Bordeaux for 9 months and found all the expressions super useful!
replace grave by gavé and you're good to go
Your face expressions are just so on point :D. Really love you video.
I had the impression that there are just French here. It's true cause I'm French LOL😂😂 You speak well. You're the first English native who speak with almost 0 accent. It's satisfying.
@Real Aiglon I've forgotten upercases isn't it ? Why shall I write "who" and not "whom" ? Thank you for correcting my mistakes.
Such a cute video! being french i really enjoyed getting ur pov on these phrases :'D If i may just say one thing, i personally solely use the verb "cramer" in the sense of like catching what someone's trying to do in secret, like : "Nan mais t'as trop cru que t'étais discret mais je t'ai cramé"
Yeah to say what she said I would rather use "je suis crevé" (litt means flat, like tires, but in this context it means I'm really tired)
also, in some contexts it means : drugged. « un cramé » = un drogué
@@Pscal hum, more like "camé", no ? ;)
I love watching videos like yours, as a french, i just find it really funny to see what strangers think about french people. Thank you for the video that was really interesting and je peux confirmé que c'est bien les mots qu'on utilise en France ( i can confirm that it is the words that we use in France ). :)
There's something entertaining about seeing this video while being native in French like "yeah I can relate" kind of vibe. Excellent video tho keep it up champ 🙌
❤️❤️, it would be amazing if you do vlogs in the future (also)
Looking at this I just realized how we French love to complain😂 I use these so much that I don't even realize haha. May I add that sometimes people say "genre", kind of like an explanation i.e. "tu veux sortir ? Genre aller au théâtre ?"
yes absolutely!
Do you use genre the exact same way as you’d say «like» in english? As a filler word?
@@sinaklsindre2831 I think yeah
that's how it is in France; for things to move forward, you need to complain.
@@rocambole93 😂😂😂 or for things NOT to go forward too lol
Just add attitude to anything, love this! lol
C'est super de faire découvrir les expressions françaises surtout que c'est une langue qui n'est pas facile 😅 great job 👍
wooo I love this video! great!!!
So sweet Eloise!😀
Your accent is the cutest!!
I'm french and I love the fact that you use mouth noise when you speak french : that's an important aspect of fluent French speaking XD
I've just started to learn french, but i definitely will save that vid for future
I grew up with various types slang similar to verlan. I do not hear any of it today from the kids coming up. This was nice round the common slang/familier. I have got into trouble using some of these with people who hate them 😅
Merciiiii😍
Man! I'm french too and I, watched it till the end XD! Found your video by accident. Hope there's a version of slang translate in french!
Amazing thank you
I am a month into learning French, so obviously I am at the very basics at the moment. These videos are enjoyable. Merci beaucoup!
Lol same
@@jessicam3555 Best of luck to you in your studies!
This video will give you a head start for sure, it's very accurate
ayo it's mad how your acceent sound so good
These were actually very good words to know! Mostly for people under 30 I’d say but, still, good to know if you’re older.
Super vidéo merci
We hosted a german exchange student in high school and after two month my dude was speaking full on parisian slang had a french gf and knew the good spots to chill and smoke weed in the neighbourhood. When he came back his french teacher could not understand anything he was saying and it was hilarious what he taught his friends. He became a french teacher in germany later on. Cool dude, grand time 11/10.
learning a new langauge goals
you can always tell when you see one of these small channels that are ABOUT TO blow up.
Love your accent!!
WOW I LIKE THESE KIND OF VIDEOS
Your video is a good summary, tu gères sœur
Love it!
Gworl ??? Your french is really good ?? I used to live in london and in my french class ppl were TERRIBLE 😭 (respectfully) we can feel that u worked so hard ! Keep going !!
Noice video. A little difficult for me to assimilate English and French at the same time, but I managed to understand everything!! 😄
I love your editing style! It's lowkey HILARIOUSSS, J'ADORE!
Complaining which is especially important love that attitude 🤣
A little precision about the expression "avoir la flemme": "Flemme" is a synonym of "Paresse" which means "Laziness", so "J'ai la flemme" litterally means "I have laziness" or in a better english "I'm too lazy". So if you are answering a question or reacting to a proposition, for example a friend asks if you want to go out tonight you can just answer: "Non, j'ai la flemme." (=Nah, I'm too lazy"). If you text them first to cancel, just add context and specify what it is that you are not motivated to do, like this: "J'ai la flemme de *insert what you're too lazy to do*." So in this context : "J'ai la flemme de *sortir ce soir*." (=I'm too lazy to go out tonight) great video!
teuf is really really used nowadays for free parties, like raves :) we use more "soirée" for normal parties where i live
Thank you
Wow, I didn't know, that verlan existed. Learned something new today. C'est hypercool!
dude this was so helpful as a half proficient ish french speaker who has never learned anything outside a textbbook for 10 year D=: DO MORE! :)
The best thing is that some of the "verlan" words have now their own verlan version 🤣 Exemple : meufe -> feumeu
It's so good ! I can't stop laugh ! C'est hilarant
Frenchie here ! Loved the vid, you really nailed the pedagogy here ! Also your accent is very good imo. Although I would add something for "cramer". I don't think I ever heard it being used as "tired/exhausted". I'm from Southern France so maybe it's a Northern habit to use it that way. BUT "cramer" (which litterally means "to burn") can also mean "to get caught" like when you get caught doing something you're not supposed to be doing. "Ce mec s'est fait cramer alors qu'il volait des bonbons" = "This guy got caught as he was stealing candies"
c'est un truc de ouf 💁🏼♀️
Ur accent in French is so charming
7:51 Native french here, first time earing Crâmer used like that. I know it used as 'found out' (ex: j'ai crâmé, t'es crâmé -> I found out, Found you out) Usually to talk about exhaustion we use Je suis mort (I'm dead), Je suis dead (I'm... well, dead). NB: Crâmer is slang for to burn
I’m an American learning French and I found your video so helpful because last night I hung out with some French girls and they explained that choulou means lourd and I remembered your translation from this video! (About a guy coming on too heavy on a dating app)
Relou, not chelou
@@D0rlisok thank you. yeah I realized that I typed it wrong but couldn't edit it.
As a french guy I can tell you this video teaches you things that you will NEED to know if you wanna talk to french people from 10 to 35 years old
I'm terribly, sincerely, and honestly sorry for everyone who want to learn French, I know it's horrible for you. We've so many expressions and deviations in the meaning of the use for our words 😅
basically every language has
Please, I beg of you, tell me some basic words I should try to memorize,
its 1am, french is my 1st language and im still watching this and i lov this
Ngl, your french accent is stunning.. At some points, I honestly thought I was listening to a native.
Spot on ! Pfffffff 🙃 Sharing this video with all my non french friends who are so confused with the verlan and slang that we use One comment tho , verlan and slang depend on the generation you’re from … which add even more complexity for non french (even french between themselves 😂) 🤯
ZISSS IS SOOOOO FRENCH. Really good job trying to explain common French language. Your French is sooo good for the small amount of time you said spending in France.
i have no reason to be here but this video just came up lol, my first language is Spanish, I also speak English but I also want to learn French because it’s such a beautiful language and I would love to learn it.Wish me good luck !
excellent ahah!
T'es trop expressive quand tu parles, j'adore !
merciii haha :)
Well done, your French is really accurate ! As a native speaker, i was quite impressed !
Great video! I just wish there also were subtitles in French when you say the examples :)
yep
Really funny to see how you try to get every weird slangs we can have ahah
1:56 was so cute... "for example *smilea*"🥺
I always thought that "avoir le seum" was more about rage and being angry from listening to french rap but nice to learn another way it's used
I'm not french but my mother thong is french and I learn plenty of stuff. Very instructive for anybody wanting to learn the 'Parisian' way of speaking.
it is mother tongue* my friend
@@HYA_CIN Thank you! :)
Hey I like the video! One suggestion is I can't read the yellow words on the white wall background. Maybe if you had a black text box around it? Having the French and English sentence written out would be really helpful. Thank you! Really trying to learn French.
i'll add :mon reuf= bro, breuson (un peu)= to use when something really dark is said, and a lot of arabic loanwords, like starfulah, wesh, wallah, inchallah, nikumuk, salam/asalamalekum... but they are more frequent in countryside or in diasporas.
Yo, as a French man, i don't usually hear people say "Je suis cramé" for "I'm tired", rather than that its mostly used when lets say, you've been caught doing something. Basically, you say "je t'ai cramé" = "I caught you" For the "I'm tired" stuff i'd say "Je suis lessivé" or "Je suis mort" (yeah it sounds very strong) or "Je suis KO"
Le "louchebem" des bouchers devrait vous intéresser après la découverte du verlan. J'attendais de voir "genre" parmi les expressions usuelles ^^
Je suis en Zambie. My niece went to school in Algeria and taught me slang: I picked up mec, kiffer and a few others from her. Also she showed me that everyone uses on while the textbooks and Duolingo stubbornly use nous. 😂