Essential French Phrases! (Feat. Louie the Bassett)
- Aubrey Rose
- Aug 22, 2017
- 2 min read
Recently, I was able to visit Paris, France with my grandma and it was truly a life changing experience. I'm sure you could guess that, along with immense reward and experience, traveling brings about a LOT of challenges. Any foreign traveler's main obstacle is always going to be figuring out what to say and how to say it.
If you ever find yourself in a French speaking country, or even if you just run into a native speaker, here are some questions, answers, and phrases that will help initiate effective communication! (I'm no native speaker myself, but I do know a bit, and such phrases helped me very much :)
French / English
Q/A:
Q - Combien ça coûte? / How much does that cost?
A - un, cinq, dix, vignt, cinquante, cent dollars/ One, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred dollars
Q - Comment allez vous/tu? / How are you? (tu= informal, friends or children) (vous=formal, strangers and/or elders)
A - Bien, pas mal, comme si comme ça / Well, not well, alright
Q - Où est la toilette? / Where is the restroom?
A - en haut, en bas, à doit, à gauche / Upstairs, downstairs, right, left
Q- Quelle couleur? / Which color?
A- Rouge, orange, jaune, vert(e), bleu, violet, noir(e), blanc(he), brun(e) / Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, brown
Phrases:
Je voulais un café au lait, s'il vous plaît/I would like a coffee with milk, please (black coffee= café noir)
Oui, bien sûr/ Yes, of course
Du l'alcool/ Some alcohol (I'm 18, it was legal for me to drink in Paris!)
Beaucoup de Nutella/ A lot of Nutella
à quelle heure?/ At what time?
Taille/ Size
Les œufs/ Eggs
Viande/ Meat (for all of you meat eaters out there!)
Le Poulet/ Chicken
Le Jambon/ Ham
Le Poisson / Fish
Le Pain / Bread
Of course I can't list everything, but these are the first phrases, questions and words that come to my head when I think of my trip to Paris- but I encourage you to learn even more! There is certainly much more to learn from this beautiful language.
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