Comments on: French Slang – Argôt Français Contemporain

By: Chanda

Chanda — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:49:47 +0000

Mandie,

Disclaimer: I do not endorse verlan, but am simply reporting that it exists and that young French people use it.

Merci pour ton commentaire!

By: Chanda

Chanda — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:48:21 +0000

Pas de quoi Ryan!

By: Mandie Kok

Mandie Kok — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:00:37 +0000

I am nearing the end of my second year of university French. Our French tutor introduced us to verlan last term. I was rather disheartened to hear about this – I have enough trouble understanding regular French without them inverting syllables!

Some of the examples he gave us were téma for mater:
Téma cette meuf, c’est un vrai canon! (Watch this woman, she’s a real sex bomb!)
C’est super reuch – reuch is verlan for cher.
Une teuf – verlan for fête.

And my personal favourite – would you like to come over to my “sonmai”? Imagine if we started talking like this in English – I live in a sehou. Terrible!

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:40:32 +0000

Thanks so much for using my recommendation! I enjoyed reading.