20 FRENCH SLANG WORDS YOU NEED TO KNOW

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★ ABOUT THIS VIDEO ★
Learn 20 French slang words you need to know! french language has a lot of everyday slang that is used not only in Paris but most of France by you and old. Knowing these French slang words will help you speak and understand spoken French fast.

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[sophinenijland]

*laisse tomber* = just leave it
*grave* = positive/negative (bad) confirmation
*mec* = guy (like, that guy)
*mytho* = say in disbelief (myth)
*kiffer* = to like (a lot) appreciation| to like someone
*ouf* = verlan——> not sure but i think she meant that it means crazy
*avoir la flemme* = to be lazy
*mdr* = mort de rire——> when youre laughing really hard (lol)
*meuf* = your girl
*go* = girl as well
*coup de coeur* = you really like something
*nanani nanana* = to cancel a point
*vas-y* =goodbye to friends, go ahead informal
*quoi de neuf* = whats up
*bagnole* = car
*se barrer* = when someone disappeared suddendly
*la bouffe, bouffer* = la bouffe= food bouffer = to eat
*déchirer* = you rock
*faire dodo* = to have a nap kind of/sleep
*fric* =money
*pote* = friend

[clammerify]

These are great until you hear them in a sentence when French person is speaking 100mph an hour and then it just sounds like one noise.

[lisagourvenec]

Je suis française et je trouve que tu as très bien expliqué bravo 😊

[liamcog]

another form for “mdr” which is used sometime is “ptdr” which is pète de rire, basically saying “lol” but in French

[diyasingh]

grave is like the english equivalent of deadass

[samykiani]

I would love to learn more. You could do a second part. I'm a French learner and found it really interesting.

[EriTheeAries]

That darn "mdr" drove me crazy. I would see it in instagram comments all the time and knew I was missing the point lol. I also noticed that french speakers tend to turn words like "je suis" to "j'suis" but i assume its probably easier to type or something.

[melk]

J’aime la langue francaise. J’ai appris un peu a l’ecole. Hope to be fluent one day 💖 love your videos

[glody]

La meuf qui parle dans cette vidéo je la kiffe de ouf!!! 😍😍😍 Mdr! 🤣

[toni]

OMG! I'm from Germany and just started watching Skam France and seriously these words are used that often. I looked most of them up already since they didn't make sense in the original meaning e g grave - but this is such a good help - thank you! :)

[timotheevalentin]

You explain very well these expressions. Just a few additions: gars’ for ‘mec’ (or ‘keum’ in verland), ‘se casser’ or ´s’arracher’ for ‘se barrer’, ‘zyva’ (verlan of ‘vas y’) but just to mean leave me alone, the past participle ´déchiré’ to say high/stone/wasted ( also ´défoncé’, its verlan ‘fonsdé’ or ‘arraché, ´la thune’ for ‘le fric’ ( there are just so many expressions but these 2 are the most common, maybe be with ´le blé’ which means wheat), ´une caisse’ for ‘bagnole’ ... it’s also super useful to know some slang when living abroad :)

[esmabarnes]

*Kiffer is originaly arabic
*Laisse tomber is like the New Jersey/New York "forget about it"
You did very good 👐🏾 I'm a new sub.
May I ask where're you from? I can not tell from your English intonation.

[FloraAshley]

A great eg of verlan is Stromae (Maestro reversed syllables) the musician and singer whom I love. Il est formidable! X

[sarahbeckett]

the music shouldn't compete with your beautiful voice and infectious energy

[SnowyDays]

Mytho is actually short for mythomane, which means compulsive liar, so mytho is just liar :P

[matieres.a.pensee]

i love your english voice, very clear and nice!

[memed]

Very insightful!
By the way what’s funny with mdr is that we also say it: it’s not only texting slang. “J’étais trop mdr” for instance.
Young people say it quite often.

[basicallydeadbooks]

This was so helpful. Merci! I want to move to France in the next few years

[Gal]

Merci pour cette vidéo, elle est très utile!

[gabrielebowers]

faire dodo was one of many phrases my creole mother (from Louisiana in the US) and family would say to me...so I never realized it was actual slang in Paris...I thought it was Louisiana Creole!! Great vid!