métro

→ Belarusian: метро́ (mjetró)

→ Dutch: metro

→ Esperanto: metroo

→ Greek: μετρό (metró)

→ Polish: metro

→ Portuguese: metro, metrô

→ Romanian: metrou

→ Russian: метро́ (metró)

→ Slovak: metro

→ Spanish: metro

→ Turkish: metro

→ Persian: مترو (metro)

→ Ukrainian: метро́ (metró)

(France, informal) resident or native of metropolitan France


major

From Middle French major, from Spanish mayor, from Latin maior. Doublet of maire, majeur, and mayeur. The use for a non-commissioned officer in the French army (since 1972) is a short form of adjudant-major or sergent-major.

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

(France) the highest non-commissioned officer rank: sergeant major, “major”


adieu

→ Alemannic German: àdje (Alsatian)

→ Danish: adjø

desctree

→ Dutch: adieu
Negerhollands: adjo, adjoe
→ Virgin Islands Creole: adio

→ English: adieu

→ German: Adieu, tschö

→ Hungarian: agyő

→ Luxembourgish: äddi

→ Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: adjø

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: adjø

→ Polish: adieu

→ Romanian: adio (both from French adieu and Italian addio)

→ Russian: адьё (adʹjó), адью (adʹju)

→ Swedish: adjö

→ Yiddish: אַדיע (adye)

Shortened form of Old French a Dieu vos comant, from Medieval Latin ad Deum, equivalent to Old French à dieu vous commant (“I commend (entrust) you to God”). Compare Aragonese, Asturian, Extremaduran, and Spanish adiós; Catalan adeu; Dutch ajuus; English and Occitan adieu; German tschüss; Greek αντίο (antío); Galician and Portuguese adeus; Italian addio; Maltese addiju; Mirandese adius; Serbo-Croatian ади̏о, adȉo; Slovene adȋjo.

cog

Near-synonym: à plus tard

dire adieu à quelqu'un ou à quelque chose

to say goodbye to someone or to something

se dire adieu

adieu à jamais / adieu pour toujours / adieu pour jamais / adieu à tout jamais

Tu peux dire adieu à tout ça.

Adieu, monsieur le professeur. On ne vous oubliera jamais.

[to a teacher] Goodbye, sir. We will never forget you.

Maintenant que j'ai dit adieu à mes rêves de bonheur, je me sens plus heureux.

Now that I have said goodbye to my dreams of happiness, I feel happier.


adieu

faire ses adieux à quelqu'un

leurs tendres adieux

des adieux émouvants

un mot d'adieu

sans adieu

Aux oreilles du patient résigné ces derniers adieux des églises n'ont sans doute rien de si funèbre, et ils valent mieux que le silence de la foule qui recule sur son passage, mieux surtout que les anathèmes ou les rires d'un peuple méchant ; […]

1841, Théodore Marie Pavie, Fragments d'un Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale en 1833, page 223:

To the ears of the condemned man resigned to his fate, this final farewell from the churches [i.e. church bells ringing] undoubtedly has nothing so funereal about it, and it is better than the silence of the crowd which moves back as he passes, and especially better than the opprobrium or the laughter of a cruel public; […]

Ne vous étonnez donc pas si je vous parle d'elle au moment de nos adieux : […]

1853, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Discours sur le droit et le devoir de la propriété, etc., page 7:

Do not be surprised, therefore, if I talk to you about it when we say goodbye: […]

J'ai un mot à vous dire, monsieur, un mot d'adieu peut-être.

1863, Arsène Houssaye, Les filles d'Ève, page 179:

I would like a word with you, sir; a word of farewell, perhaps.


bistro

→ Brazilian Portuguese: bistrô

→ Danish: bistro

→ English: bistro

The etymology is unclear; it is presumed to come from a regional word: bistro, bistrot, bistingo, or bistraud, a word in the Poitou dialect which means a "lesser servant", or bistouille, bistrouille, a colloquial term from the northern area of France for a mixture of brandy and coffee, the kind of beverage that could be served at a bistro. The first recorded use of the word appears in 1884, the next in 1892 ("bistrot").
A popular folk etymology of the word claims that it originated among Russian troops who occupied Paris following the Napoleonic Wars. In taverns they would shout the Russian бы́стро (býstro, “quickly”) to the waiters, so that "bistro" took on the meaning of a place where food was served quickly. This etymology is rejected, due to the 69 year gap between the proposed origin and the first attestation.

(metonymic, France) proprietor of a bistro


cul

Inherited from Middle French cul, from Old French cul, from Latin cūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le cul de la crémière

Ils ont du cul.

(informal, France) good luck or good fortune

(France, slang) roach (the butt of a marijuana cigarette)


glace

→ Italian: glassa

→ Lingala: galási

→ Luxembourgish: Glace

→ Moroccan Arabic: جلاص (glāṣ)

→ Swedish: glass

→ Switzerland German: Glace

Inherited from Middle French glace, from Old French glace (“ice", also "glass, mirror, radiance”), from Vulgar Latin *glacium/a, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”). The senses of "glass, mirror, radiance" were possibly derived from Frankish *glas (“glass”).

inh

(France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) ice cream

Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia; Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia


cookie

(France) cookie (American-style biscuit)


RSA

Il a d’abord été radié du RSA. Il à reçu par courrier une copie du rapport le concernant, rédigé par sa conseillère.

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:

revenu de solidarité active
w:revenu de solidarité active

(France) initialism of revenu de solidarité active, a French social welfare benefit.


sur

Inherited from Middle French sur, from Old French sur, seur, sor, soure, souvre, sovre (“on, upon, over”), from Latin super (“over, on, above”). Doublet of super, a borrowing. Cognate with Old English ofer (“over, above”). More at over.

sur Paris


khâgne

Pseudo-Greek modification of cagneux (“knock-kneed”), c. 1900.

(France, university slang) the second year course, preceded by hypokhâgne, of a two-year academic cycle in France (called Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles, Humanities section) whose aim is to prepare students for the entrance competition to the École normale supérieure in Paris


Kevin

Kevins (plural)
Kévin (alternative)
Keven (alternative)
Kevyn (alternative)
Keveen (alternative)

(slang, France) A boorish lower-class person of low intellect


déjeuner

déjeuners (plural)
déjeûner (alternative)
déjeusner (alternative archaic)

→ English: déjeuner

→ Romanian: dejun

→ Scots: disjune

(France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, Morocco, West Africa) lunch, luncheon


petit déjeuner

fr-noun

petit déjeuner m (plural petits déjeuners)

petits déjeuners (plural)
petit-déjeuner (alternative)

→ Portuguese: pequeno-almoço (calque)

→ Romanian: mic dejun (calque)

(chiefly France, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) breakfast (morning meal)


marron

→ Asturian: marrón

→ Catalan: marró

→ Galician: marrón

Louisiana Creole: maron

→ Portuguese: marrom

→ Romanian: maro, maron

→ Spanish: marrón

→ Turkish: maron

Etymology tree
Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor.
Italian marronebor.
French marron
Borrowed from Italian marrone.


pamplemousse

(botany, France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) pomelo


Marianne

(France, politics, philosophy) Marianne; a personification of France


rond

fr-adj

rond (feminine ronde, masculine plural ronds, feminine plural rondes)

ronde (feminine)
ronds (masculine plural)
rondes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French reont, from Late Latin retundus, dissimilated variant of Latin rotundus. Doublet of rotonde.

Derrière ton rond de lumière / T'es complètement rond, Jojo !

1980, “Jojo le Projo”, in Assez !, performed by Claude Nougaro:


figuier

From figue + -ier. Replaced Old French fiier.

(France) synonym of figuier commun (Ficus carica)


pondre

pondre (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pondant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pondu (participle past)
ponds (first-person indicative present singular)
ponds (indicative present second-person singular)
pond (indicative present singular third-person)
pondons (first-person indicative plural present)
pondez (indicative plural present second-person)
pondent (indicative plural present third-person)
pondais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pondais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pondait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pondions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pondiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pondaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pondis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pondis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pondit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pondîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pondîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pondirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
pondrai (first-person future indicative singular)
pondras (future indicative second-person singular)
pondra (future indicative singular third-person)
pondrons (first-person future indicative plural)
pondrez (future indicative plural second-person)
pondront (future indicative plural third-person)
pondrais (conditional first-person singular)
pondrais (conditional second-person singular)
pondrait (conditional singular third-person)
pondrions (conditional first-person plural)
pondriez (conditional plural second-person)
pondraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
ponde (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pondes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ponde (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pondions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pondiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pondent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pondisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pondisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pondît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pondissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pondissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pondissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ponds (imperative second-person singular)
pondons (first-person imperative plural)
pondez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French pondre, inherited from Latin pōnere, from Proto-Italic *pozinō.


canner

canner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
cannant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
canné (participle past)
canne (first-person indicative present singular)
cannes (indicative present second-person singular)
canne (indicative present singular third-person)
cannons (first-person indicative plural present)
cannez (indicative plural present second-person)
cannent (indicative plural present third-person)
cannais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
cannais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
cannait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
cannions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
canniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
cannaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
cannai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
cannas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
canna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
cannâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
cannâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
cannèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
cannerai (first-person future indicative singular)
canneras (future indicative second-person singular)
cannera (future indicative singular third-person)
cannerons (first-person future indicative plural)
cannerez (future indicative plural second-person)
canneront (future indicative plural third-person)
cannerais (conditional first-person singular)
cannerais (conditional second-person singular)
cannerait (conditional singular third-person)
cannerions (conditional first-person plural)
canneriez (conditional plural second-person)
canneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
canne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cannes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
canne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
cannions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
canniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
cannent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
cannasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
cannasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
cannât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
cannassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
cannassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
cannassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
canne (imperative second-person singular)
cannons (first-person imperative plural)
cannez (imperative plural second-person)


crème

→ Arabic: كريم (k(i)rim)

→ Bulgarian: крем (krem)

→ Catalan: crema

→ Danish: creme
→ Faroese: krem

desctree

→ Dutch: crème, kreem (Belgium, colloquial)
→ Indonesian: krèm
→ Papiamentu: krèm

→ English: crème, creme

→ Esperanto: kremo
→ Ido: kremo

→ German: Creme, Crème, Krem, Kreme

→ Hungarian: krém (also via German)

→ Italian: crema
→ English: crema
→ Greek: κρέμα (kréma)
→ Turkish: krema

→ Japanese: クレーム (kurēmu)

desc

→ Khmer: ក្រេម (kreem), ក្រែម (kraem); ការ៉េម (kaareem)

→ Lao: ກະແລັມ (ka læm), ກະແລມ (ka lǣm, “ice cream”)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: krem

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: krem

→ Persian: کرم (kerem, krem)

→ Polish: krem

→ Portuguese: creme

→ Romanian: cremă

desctree

→ Russian: крем (krem)
→ Armenian: կրեմ (krem)
→ Azerbaijani: krem
→ Georgian: კრემი (ḳremi)
→ Yakut: крем (krem)

→ Spanish: crema
→ English: crema
→ Tagalog: krema
→ Turkish: krema

→ Swedish: kräm

→ Turkish: krem

→ Vietnamese: cà lem, cà rem, kem

→ Yiddish: קרעם (krem) (possibly via German)

Inherited from Middle French chresme, from Old French cresme, from Late Latin crama, a Transalpine Gaulish word influenced by Latin chrisma (modern French chrême), from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma).


footing

Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) + -ing.

2014, Erin McCahan, Cool, Sweet, Hot, Love, Nathan (publ.), page 8.
Je ne comprends pas ceux qui font du footing à deux.

I don't understand those who jog in pairs.

(France) exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise)


CES

(France) initialism of collège d’enseignement secondaire (“junior high school, secondary school”)


goûter

Inherited from Middle French gouster, from Old French goster, inherited from Latin gustāre. Compare the borrowed prefixed verb déguster.

(France) meal similar to breakfast taken around 4 P.M


lèche

(France, slang) bootlicking, brownnosing


demi

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dimedius, from Latin dīmidius (“half”), derived from dis- (“apart; in two”) + medius (“middle; centre”).

(Polynesia, France) a person of multiracial descent, usually a person with French and other non-European origin; mixed-race


bec

→ Portuguese: beque

Inherited from Old French bec, from Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.

Elle m'a fait un bec en partant.

(colloquial, North of France, Belgium, North America, Switzerland) kiss


yaourt

yaourts (plural)
yahourt (alternative)
yoghourt (alternative)
yogourt (alternative)

(chiefly France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) yoghurt


boule

→ English: boule

Etymology tree
Latin bullader.
Proto-Germanic *bullǭ
Frankish *bollāder.
French boule
Inherited from Middle French boule, from Old French bole (“knob”), from either Latin bulla (“bubble”), in which case it is a doublet of bulle (which was borrowed later); or from Frankish *bollā (“ball, bun, bowl, cup”), in which case it is a doublet of bol.


Messrs

Messrs Adams, Brashear, Cook, Dial, Garcia de St-Charles, Garcia de Jefferson, Gaudet, Kenner, Martin, Moore, May, McWhorter, Parham, Swazé, et Thibodeaux, du Sénat, votent en faveur de M. Duncan F. Kenner - 15 voix. […]

1848, Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the State of Louisiana, ..., page 36:

Messrs Adams, Brashear, Cook, Dial, Garcia de St-Charles, Garcia de Jefferson, Gaudet, Kenner, Martin, Moore, May, McWhorter, Parham, Swazé and Thibodeaux, of the Senate, vote in favor of Mr. Duncan F. Kenner – 15 votes. […]

(now nonstandard in France) abbreviation of Messieurs


souper

→ German: Souper

From Middle French soupper, from Old French soper, derived from supe, sope (“soup”) (modern French soupe).

(France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, New Caledonia, Réunion, West Africa) a light meal eaten at night, after the main evening meal


écraser

écraser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
écrasant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
écrasé (participle past)
écrase (first-person indicative present singular)
écrases (indicative present second-person singular)
écrase (indicative present singular third-person)
écrasons (first-person indicative plural present)
écrasez (indicative plural present second-person)
écrasent (indicative plural present third-person)
écrasais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
écrasais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
écrasait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
écrasions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
écrasiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
écrasaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
écrasai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
écrasas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
écrasa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
écrasâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
écrasâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
écrasèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
écraserai (first-person future indicative singular)
écraseras (future indicative second-person singular)
écrasera (future indicative singular third-person)
écraserons (first-person future indicative plural)
écraserez (future indicative plural second-person)
écraseront (future indicative plural third-person)
écraserais (conditional first-person singular)
écraserais (conditional second-person singular)
écraserait (conditional singular third-person)
écraserions (conditional first-person plural)
écraseriez (conditional plural second-person)
écraseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
écrase (first-person present singular subjunctive)
écrases (present second-person singular subjunctive)
écrase (present singular subjunctive third-person)
écrasions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
écrasiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
écrasent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
écrasasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
écrasasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
écrasât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
écrasassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
écrasassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
écrasassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
écrase (imperative second-person singular)
écrasons (first-person imperative plural)
écrasez (imperative plural second-person)

From Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. More at craze.


colle

Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Italian colla, Portuguese and Spanish cola.

La khôlle (ou colle) est une interrogation orale d'une heure devant un tableau. On vous donne un exercice et vous avez pour mission de le résoudre (même si ce n'est pas le plus important).

2010, Alexandre Devaux, Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la prépa scientifique, Dunod, →ISBN, page 79:

The khôlle (or colle) is an hour-long oral examination in front of a blackboard. You are given an exercise and your mission is to solve it (although solving it is not the most important thing).

(France, education) oral examination at a prépa or during the PASS


quartier

→ English: quartier

→ German: Quartier

→ Italian: quartiere

→ Portuguese: quartel

→ Romanian: cartier

→ Spanish: cuartel

From quart + -ier, possibly Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.

Des jeunes issus des quartiers sont à l'origine de ces vols

(France, chiefly in the plural) impoverished neighbourhood, often suburban


chopine

(France, obsolete) a French pre-metric measure of capacity equal to half a pinte that was equivalent to 0.476 liters. Under the monarchy the measure varied from region to region, with the Parisian chopine being equivalent to 0.465 liters. 1 pinte ("quart") = 2 chopines ("pints") = 4 demiards ("half-pints")

(France) a French metric chopine (or metric "pint") equal to 0.250 liters

(France) an amount of wine equivalent to 0.25 liters


pinte

From Vulgar Latin *pincta (“mark used to indicate level on vessels”), from Latin pictus (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb).

der

[…] son grand pot d’étain qui tenait trois pintes.

1831, Eugène Sue, chapter 1, in Atar Gull, page 14:

[…] his big pewter tankard which held three pintes [approximately six pints or three liters].

(France, obsolete) a French pre-metric measurement of capacity or volume equal to 0.952 liters. Under the monarchy its size varied depending on the region, with the Parisian pinte being equivalent to 0.93 liters. 1 pinte ("quart") = 2 chopines ("pint") = 4 demiards ("half-pint")

(France) a metric pint (0.5 liters). This was done to reduce confusion between the similar American pint [0.473 liters], Imperial pint [0.568 liters] or Système International metric "pint" [0.500 liters] and the French pinte [0.952 liters]. 1 pinte [0.5 liters] ("pint") = 2 demi-pintes or chopines [0.250 liters] ("half-pint")

(France) Bottle of beer or wine with capacity of 50 centiliters, equivalent to ²⁄₃ of a standard wine or liquor bottle


crosse

→ Portuguese: crossa

Inherited from Middle French crosse, from Old French crosse (“shepherd's staff”), from a Germanic language, likely Frankish *krukkju, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“staff, crutch”).
Compare Old High German krucka, Old Saxon krukka, Middle Dutch crucke, English crutch.

(France, sports) hockey stick, lacrosse stick, or golf club


OAS

(France) initialism of Organisation de l'Armée Secrète


PLU

plan local d'urbanisme
w:fr:plan local d'urbanisme

(France) initialism of plan local d'urbanisme, an urban development plan produced by municipalities in France.


foufoune

(France) vulva (especially of young girls); foo-foo, front bottom, foufounette


pain perdu

Literally, “lost bread”; so called because it was made from bread that was too stale to be eaten normally, but still usable for this purpose.


procès-verbal

(law, France) ticket, statement of offense


GPL

gaz de pétrole liquéfié
gaz de pétrole liquéfié#French

(France) initialism of gaz de pétrole liquéfié


partiel

Borrowed from Latin partiālis. Doublet of partial.


SMIC

SMIC (plural)
smic (alternative)
Smic (alternative)

Acronym of salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance, formerly SMIG.

acronym

fr:salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance


plonge

(France, informal) the work of washing dishes


agace

agaces (plural)
agasse (alternative)
agache (alternative)

Inherited from Middle French agace, from Old French agace (“magpie”), from Frankish *agattjā or Old High German agaza (“magpie”), ultimately perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Walloon agaesse, Occitan agaça, gacha, Italian gazza, and possibly Catalan garsa.


cinq à sept

LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-cinq à sept.wav

Referring to the time between 5 and 7pm.

(France, colloquial, idiomatic) quick afternoon tryst


fureter

fureter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
furetant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
fureté (participle past)
furète (first-person indicative present singular)
furètes (indicative present second-person singular)
furète (indicative present singular third-person)
furetons (first-person indicative plural present)
furetez (indicative plural present second-person)
furètent (indicative plural present third-person)
furetais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
furetais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
furetait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
furetions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
furetiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
furetaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
furetai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
furetas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
fureta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
furetâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
furetâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
furetèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
furèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
furèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
furèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
furèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
furètera (future indicative singular third-person)
furètera (future indicative singular third-person)
furèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
furèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
furèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
furèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
furèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
furèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
furèterais (conditional first-person singular)
furèterais (conditional first-person singular)
furèterais (conditional second-person singular)
furèterais (conditional second-person singular)
furèterait (conditional singular third-person)
furèterait (conditional singular third-person)
furèterions (conditional first-person plural)
furèterions (conditional first-person plural)
furèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
furèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
furèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
furèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
furète (first-person present singular subjunctive)
furètes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
furète (present singular subjunctive third-person)
furetions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
furetiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
furètent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
furetasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
furetasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
furetât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
furetassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
furetassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
furetassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
furète (imperative second-person singular)
furetons (first-person imperative plural)
furetez (imperative plural second-person)

(Internet slang, France) to browse (a website)


médiateur

fr-noun

médiateur m (plural médiateurs, feminine médiatrice)

médiateurs (plural)
médiatrice (feminine)

Borrowed from Latin mediātōrem. Doublet of médiator.


limer

limer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
limant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
limé (participle past)
lime (first-person indicative present singular)
limes (indicative present second-person singular)
lime (indicative present singular third-person)
limons (first-person indicative plural present)
limez (indicative plural present second-person)
liment (indicative plural present third-person)
limais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
limais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
limait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
limions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
limiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
limaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
limai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
limas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
lima (historic indicative past singular third-person)
limâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
limâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
limèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
limerai (first-person future indicative singular)
limeras (future indicative second-person singular)
limera (future indicative singular third-person)
limerons (first-person future indicative plural)
limerez (future indicative plural second-person)
limeront (future indicative plural third-person)
limerais (conditional first-person singular)
limerais (conditional second-person singular)
limerait (conditional singular third-person)
limerions (conditional first-person plural)
limeriez (conditional plural second-person)
limeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
lime (first-person present singular subjunctive)
limes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
lime (present singular subjunctive third-person)
limions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
limiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
liment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
limasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
limasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
limât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
limassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
limassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
limassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
lime (imperative second-person singular)
limons (first-person imperative plural)
limez (imperative plural second-person)


meule

Inherited from Old French mole, muele, from Latin mola, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”).


cartable

→ Vietnamese: cạc-táp

Related to carte, but of unclear formation.

(France, Switzerland) satchel; schoolbag


outre-Manche

Literally, “across the Channel (from continental Europe)”.


routier

(France) restaurant for truckers and other road travellers; truck stop; diner


kermesse

→ Italian: kermesse

→ Portuguese: quermesse

→ Spanish: kermés

→ Romanian: chermeză

→ Turkish: kermes

From Dutch kermis, a bastardization of kerk (“church”) + mis (“mass”). Compare German Kirmes (“church mass”).

dans les parcs et les stades, on chantait, on dansait, on riait, on organisait de grandes kermesses tonitruantes.

2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:

In the parks and stadiums, we sang, we danced, we laughed, we organised raucous fêtes.

(Belgium, Northern France) kirmess, fair


gober

gober (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
gobant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
gobé (participle past)
gobe (first-person indicative present singular)
gobes (indicative present second-person singular)
gobe (indicative present singular third-person)
gobons (first-person indicative plural present)
gobez (indicative plural present second-person)
gobent (indicative plural present third-person)
gobais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
gobais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
gobait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
gobions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
gobiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
gobaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
gobai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
gobas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
goba (historic indicative past singular third-person)
gobâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
gobâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
gobèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
goberai (first-person future indicative singular)
goberas (future indicative second-person singular)
gobera (future indicative singular third-person)
goberons (first-person future indicative plural)
goberez (future indicative plural second-person)
goberont (future indicative plural third-person)
goberais (conditional first-person singular)
goberais (conditional second-person singular)
goberait (conditional singular third-person)
goberions (conditional first-person plural)
goberiez (conditional plural second-person)
goberaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
gobe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
gobes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
gobe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
gobions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
gobiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
gobent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
gobasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
gobasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
gobât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
gobassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
gobassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
gobassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
gobe (imperative second-person singular)
gobons (first-person imperative plural)
gobez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Gaulish *gobbos, from Proto-Celtic *gobbos (“muzzle, snout, beak”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵoph₃o- (“eat, masticate (of animals)”). Compare Irish gob, Scottish Gaelic gob (“beak, bill”) and English gob.

der

(France, slang) to ingest drugs, especially ecstasy or LSD


BEP

Trois ans plus tard, sa candidature pour préparer un BEP de services administratifs n’avait pas été retenue.

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 10:

brevet d'études professionnelles
w:fr:brevet d'études professionnelles

(France, historical) initialism of brevet d'études professionnelles


poteau

Haitian Creole: poto

Inherited from Middle French postiau, poteaul, from post, from Old French post, from Latin postis.


aboteau

(France, dialectal, chiefly historical) a levee or dam used in the draining of marshes


abornement

(chiefly France, law) Determination of the precise limits of a piece of land or a border


gâterie

T'as pas envie de me faire une petite gâterie?

(euphemistic, France) fellatio, cunnilingus


haute école

Feminine of haut (“high”) + école (“school”) (from Latin schola); perfectly parallel to Dutch hogeschool; compare high school.

(France) Very academic, high-level, equitation style school of higher education


politiquement correct

political correctness
political correctness


Chtimi

resident or native of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region


From the fact that almost all mobile phone numbers start with "06" in France. In 2010 the "07" prefix was added for use in mobile phone numbers.

C'est quoi ton 06?

(France, informal) mobile phone number, cellphone number


smicard

fr-noun

smicard m (plural smicards, feminine smicarde)

(France, colloquial) employee who earns the minimum wage in France


béal

(southern France) small irrigation canal


Sûreté

From the noun sûreté (“safety, security”).

(law enforcement, France) Sûreté Nationale


CAF

w:fr:Caisse d'allocations familiales (France)

(France) acronym of Caisse d'allocations familiales


galocher

galocher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
galochant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
galoché (participle past)
galoche (first-person indicative present singular)
galoches (indicative present second-person singular)
galoche (indicative present singular third-person)
galochons (first-person indicative plural present)
galochez (indicative plural present second-person)
galochent (indicative plural present third-person)
galochais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
galochais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
galochait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
galochions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
galochiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
galochaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
galochai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
galochas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
galocha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
galochâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
galochâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
galochèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
galocherai (first-person future indicative singular)
galocheras (future indicative second-person singular)
galochera (future indicative singular third-person)
galocherons (first-person future indicative plural)
galocherez (future indicative plural second-person)
galocheront (future indicative plural third-person)
galocherais (conditional first-person singular)
galocherais (conditional second-person singular)
galocherait (conditional singular third-person)
galocherions (conditional first-person plural)
galocheriez (conditional plural second-person)
galocheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
galoche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
galoches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
galoche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
galochions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
galochiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
galochent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
galochasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
galochasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
galochât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
galochassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
galochassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
galochassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
galoche (imperative second-person singular)
galochons (first-person imperative plural)
galochez (imperative plural second-person)

(France, colloquial) to French kiss, make out (a kiss with contact between tongues)


contre-torpilleur

contre-torpilleur m (plural contre-torpilleurs)

contre-torpilleurs (plural)
contretorpilleur (alternative)
contre torpilleur (alternative)

torpedo-boat destroyer
torpedo-boat destroyer#English

(historical, nautical, military) torpedo-boat destroyer

(France, historical, nautical, military) former name of destroyer

torpedo-boat destroyer
former name of destroyer


bachelier

bachelier m (plural bacheliers, feminine bachelière)

bacheliers (plural)
bachelière (feminine)

→ Catalan: batxiller

→ Italian: baccelliere

→ Spanish: bachiller

Inherited from Old French bacheler, bachelier, from Medieval Latin baccalaureus, a variant of baccalārius influenced by a folk etymology from bacca (“berry”), laurea (“laurel”), i.e. “crowned with berried laurels”, in reference to the fact that graduate students were crowned with those in the Middle Ages. See baccalārius for other senses.

Agrégé de philosophie, rebuté par la monotonie d'une carrière qui consiste à préparer chaque année un certain contingent de futurs bacheliers, Claude Lévi-Strauss s'orienta rapidement vers la recherche ethnographique.


seigneurie

From Middle French, from Old French signorie. Equivalent to seigneur + -ie.


peinturer

peinturer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
peinturant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
peinturé (participle past)
peinture (first-person indicative present singular)
peintures (indicative present second-person singular)
peinture (indicative present singular third-person)
peinturons (first-person indicative plural present)
peinturez (indicative plural present second-person)
peinturent (indicative plural present third-person)
peinturais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
peinturais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
peinturait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
peinturions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
peinturiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
peinturaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
peinturai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
peinturas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
peintura (historic indicative past singular third-person)
peinturâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
peinturâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
peinturèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
peinturerai (first-person future indicative singular)
peintureras (future indicative second-person singular)
peinturera (future indicative singular third-person)
peinturerons (first-person future indicative plural)
peinturerez (future indicative plural second-person)
peintureront (future indicative plural third-person)
peinturerais (conditional first-person singular)
peinturerais (conditional second-person singular)
peinturerait (conditional singular third-person)
peinturerions (conditional first-person plural)
peintureriez (conditional plural second-person)
peintureraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
peinture (first-person present singular subjunctive)
peintures (present second-person singular subjunctive)
peinture (present singular subjunctive third-person)
peinturions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
peinturiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
peinturent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
peinturasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
peinturasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
peinturât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
peinturassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
peinturassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
peinturassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
peinture (imperative second-person singular)
peinturons (first-person imperative plural)
peinturez (imperative plural second-person)

Haitian Creole: pentire

Cet enfant s'amuse à peinturer.

(France) to paint like a child, in a way lacking grace and dexterity


quatre-vingtième

(France, North America, Belgium, Luxembourg, fractional number) eightieth


quatre-vingtième

quatre-vingtième m (plural quatre-vingtièmes)

(France, North America, Belgium, Luxembourg, ordinal number) eightieth


Six Nations

Six-Nations (alternative)
6 Nations (alternative)

Tournoi des Six Nations
Tournoi des Six Nations#French

(France) Six Nations; ellipsis of Tournoi des Six Nations


coup du chapeau

coup du chapeau m (plural coups du chapeau)

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-coup du chapeau.wav


sapeur-pompier

sapeur-pompier m (plural sapeurs-pompiers, feminine sapeuse-pompière)

sapeurs-pompiers (plural)
sapeuse-pompière (feminine)


antisèche

antisèches (plural)
anti-sèche (alternative)

(France) cheat sheet (a sheet of paper used to assist on a test)


pébroque

(colloquial, North and North-Eastern France) umbrella


antenne de police

antenne de police f (plural antennes de police)

(France, law enforcement) police box (small police station)


ducasse

Reduced form of dédicace. Compare Walloon dicåce.

(Belgium, North of France) any festival that takes place one every two years


fendard

fr-adj

fendard (feminine fendarde, masculine plural fendards, feminine plural fendardes)

fendarde (feminine)
fendards (masculine plural)
fendardes (feminine plural)

Ah ouais ça serait fendard, on se poilerait bien la gueule.

2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:


travail d'arabe

(France, derogatory, ethnic slur) poorly, lazily executed work


caguer

caguer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
caguant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
cagué (participle past)
cague (first-person indicative present singular)
cagues (indicative present second-person singular)
cague (indicative present singular third-person)
caguons (first-person indicative plural present)
caguez (indicative plural present second-person)
caguent (indicative plural present third-person)
caguais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
caguais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
caguait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
caguions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
caguiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
caguaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
caguai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
caguas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
cagua (historic indicative past singular third-person)
caguâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
caguâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
caguèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
caguerai (first-person future indicative singular)
cagueras (future indicative second-person singular)
caguera (future indicative singular third-person)
caguerons (first-person future indicative plural)
caguerez (future indicative plural second-person)
cagueront (future indicative plural third-person)
caguerais (conditional first-person singular)
caguerais (conditional second-person singular)
caguerait (conditional singular third-person)
caguerions (conditional first-person plural)
cagueriez (conditional plural second-person)
cagueraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
cague (first-person present singular subjunctive)
cagues (present second-person singular subjunctive)
cague (present singular subjunctive third-person)
caguions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
caguiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
caguent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
caguasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
caguasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
caguât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
caguassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
caguassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
caguassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
cague (imperative second-person singular)
caguons (first-person imperative plural)
caguez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Occitan cagar, from Latin cacāre, whence also the inherited doublet chier.


escagasser

escagasser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
escagassant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
escagassé (participle past)
escagasse (first-person indicative present singular)
escagasses (indicative present second-person singular)
escagasse (indicative present singular third-person)
escagassons (first-person indicative plural present)
escagassez (indicative plural present second-person)
escagassent (indicative plural present third-person)
escagassais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
escagassais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
escagassait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
escagassions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
escagassiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
escagassaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
escagassai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
escagassas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
escagassa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
escagassâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
escagassâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
escagassèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
escagasserai (first-person future indicative singular)
escagasseras (future indicative second-person singular)
escagassera (future indicative singular third-person)
escagasserons (first-person future indicative plural)
escagasserez (future indicative plural second-person)
escagasseront (future indicative plural third-person)
escagasserais (conditional first-person singular)
escagasserais (conditional second-person singular)
escagasserait (conditional singular third-person)
escagasserions (conditional first-person plural)
escagasseriez (conditional plural second-person)
escagasseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
escagasse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
escagasses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
escagasse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
escagassions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
escagassiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
escagassent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
escagassasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
escagassasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
escagassât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
escagassassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
escagassassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
escagassassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
escagasse (imperative second-person singular)
escagassons (first-person imperative plural)
escagassez (imperative plural second-person)


nom de Dieu de bordel de merde

(France, vulgar, blasphemous) Jesus fucking Christ; holy fucking shit (indicates anger or surprise)


métropolitain

desc

метрапалітэ́н

→ Belarusian: метрапалітэ́н (mjetrapalitén)

метрополите́н

→ Russian: метрополите́н (metropolitén)

метрополіте́н

→ Ukrainian: метрополіте́н (metropolitén)

(France) Person from metropolitan France


carte bleue

(France, banking, historical) a brand of bank cards widely used in France from 1967 to 2010


rond comme une queue de pelle

fr-adj

rond comme une queue de pelle (feminine ronde comme une queue de pelle, masculine plural ronds comme des queues de pelles, feminine plural rondes comme des queues de pelles)

ronde comme une queue de pelle (feminine)
ronds comme des queues de pelles (masculine plural)
rondes comme des queues de pelles (feminine plural)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-rond comme une queue de pelle.wav

(France, Belgium, simile, colloquial) very drunk


fayoter

fayoter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
fayotant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
fayoté (participle past)
fayote (first-person indicative present singular)
fayotes (indicative present second-person singular)
fayote (indicative present singular third-person)
fayotons (first-person indicative plural present)
fayotez (indicative plural present second-person)
fayotent (indicative plural present third-person)
fayotais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
fayotais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
fayotait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
fayotions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
fayotiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
fayotaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fayotai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
fayotas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
fayota (historic indicative past singular third-person)
fayotâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
fayotâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
fayotèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
fayoterai (first-person future indicative singular)
fayoteras (future indicative second-person singular)
fayotera (future indicative singular third-person)
fayoterons (first-person future indicative plural)
fayoterez (future indicative plural second-person)
fayoteront (future indicative plural third-person)
fayoterais (conditional first-person singular)
fayoterais (conditional second-person singular)
fayoterait (conditional singular third-person)
fayoterions (conditional first-person plural)
fayoteriez (conditional plural second-person)
fayoteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
fayote (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fayotes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fayote (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fayotions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fayotiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fayotent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fayotasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fayotasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fayotât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fayotassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fayotassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fayotassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fayote (imperative second-person singular)
fayotons (first-person imperative plural)
fayotez (imperative plural second-person)

Quelques stagiaires éclatent de rire en te montrant du doigt, ils croient que tu plaisantes, en profitent pour fayoter en s’sclaffant à tes facéties pathétiques.

2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:


VRP

(France) initialism of voyageur représentant placier (“a travelling salesman”)


écrase-merde

Compound of écraser (“to crush”) + merde (“shit”).

(France, vulgar, dysphemistic) An unsophisticated shoe


Grenelle

Metonymic, after the Grenelle agreements (accords de Grenelle) of May 1968.

(France, politics) summit, committee meeting between the government and trade unions


cassonade

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan cassonada. See casson + -ade.


ENS

école normale supérieure
w:école normale supérieure

(France, education) initialism of école normale supérieure, a type of publicly funded higher education institution in France.


gugusse

(France, colloquial) twit (foolish person)


gow

First attested in nouchi (Côte d'Ivoire French slang) in late 20th century, borrowed from a local language. Possibly from Bambara go, ultimately from English girl or French gosse.

(slang, West Africa, France) a girl, chick. alternative spelling of go


prépa

(France, education) Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles


taiseux

taiseux (feminine taiseuse, masculine plural taiseux, feminine plural taiseuses)

taiseuse (feminine)
taiseux (masculine plural)
taiseuses (feminine plural)

Bien sûr qu'on se perd parfois ; mais le timide, le taiseux, le cynique, le bileux, l'indécis […] se perdent aussi.


mazout

desc

→ Arabic: مَازُوت (māzūt), مَازُوط (māzūṭ)

→ Persian: مازوت (mâzut)

→ Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ូត (maasuut)

→ Rwanda-Rundi: amazǔtu

→ Turkish: mazot

(France) a cocktail made with pastis and cola


bazarder

bazarder (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
bazardant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
bazardé (participle past)
bazarde (first-person indicative present singular)
bazardes (indicative present second-person singular)
bazarde (indicative present singular third-person)
bazardons (first-person indicative plural present)
bazardez (indicative plural present second-person)
bazardent (indicative plural present third-person)
bazardais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bazardais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bazardait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bazardions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bazardiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bazardaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bazardai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bazardas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bazarda (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bazardâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bazardâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bazardèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
bazarderai (first-person future indicative singular)
bazarderas (future indicative second-person singular)
bazardera (future indicative singular third-person)
bazarderons (first-person future indicative plural)
bazarderez (future indicative plural second-person)
bazarderont (future indicative plural third-person)
bazarderais (conditional first-person singular)
bazarderais (conditional second-person singular)
bazarderait (conditional singular third-person)
bazarderions (conditional first-person plural)
bazarderiez (conditional plural second-person)
bazarderaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
bazarde (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bazardes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bazarde (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bazardions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bazardiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bazardent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bazardasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bazardasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bazardât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bazardassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bazardassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bazardassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bazarde (imperative second-person singular)
bazardons (first-person imperative plural)
bazardez (imperative plural second-person)

From bazar + -er, with an unetymological d, on the model of verbs derived from a noun ending in -ard (cafarder, hasarder, etc.).

(France, transitive) to sell or sell off


canadair

Genericized trademark. From the company name Canadair, the manufacturer of the only purpose-built waterbomber, from the original version, Canadair CL-215. From English Canada+air, from being a Canadian aircraft manufacturer. Compare Greek καναντέρ (kanantér), Italian canadair, Serbo-Croatian kanader / канадер, Macedonian канадер (kanader)

(France, firefighting, aviation) waterbomber (firefighting aircraft)


Polytechnique

(France, informal) the École polytechnique, a major institute of higher learning outside of Paris


physionomiste

fr-noun

physionomiste m or f by sense (plural physionomistes)


handisport

disability sport
disability sport#English

(France, sports) parasport (disabled sport, disability sport)

(France, sports, by restriction) sport for physical disabilities


astheure

Contraction of à cette heure (à + cette + heure).

(North America, France, Switzerland, colloquial) alternative form of à cette heure (“presently”)


Inrap

Acronym of Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives.

(France) the National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Researches


bicher

bicher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
bichant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
biché (participle past)
biche (first-person indicative present singular)
biches (indicative present second-person singular)
biche (indicative present singular third-person)
bichons (first-person indicative plural present)
bichez (indicative plural present second-person)
bichent (indicative plural present third-person)
bichais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bichais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bichait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bichions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bichiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bichaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bichai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bichas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bicha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bichâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bichâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bichèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
bicherai (first-person future indicative singular)
bicheras (future indicative second-person singular)
bichera (future indicative singular third-person)
bicherons (first-person future indicative plural)
bicherez (future indicative plural second-person)
bicheront (future indicative plural third-person)
bicherais (conditional first-person singular)
bicherais (conditional second-person singular)
bicherait (conditional singular third-person)
bicherions (conditional first-person plural)
bicheriez (conditional plural second-person)
bicheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
biche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
biches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
biche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bichions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bichiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bichent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bichasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bichasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bichât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bichassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bichassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bichassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
biche (imperative second-person singular)
bichons (first-person imperative plural)
bichez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French bécher (“to bite”), from Latin beccus (“beak, bill”).

inh+

Ça biche?


procureur du roi

fr-noun

procureur du roi m (plural procureurs du roi)

(France, law, historical) Crown prosecutor of France


mecspliquer

mecspliquer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mecspliquant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
mecspliqué (participle past)
mecsplique (first-person indicative present singular)
mecspliques (indicative present second-person singular)
mecsplique (indicative present singular third-person)
mecspliquons (first-person indicative plural present)
mecspliquez (indicative plural present second-person)
mecspliquent (indicative plural present third-person)
mecspliquais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
mecspliquais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
mecspliquait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
mecspliquions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
mecspliquiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
mecspliquaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mecspliquai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
mecspliquas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
mecspliqua (historic indicative past singular third-person)
mecspliquâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
mecspliquâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
mecspliquèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
mecspliquerai (first-person future indicative singular)
mecspliqueras (future indicative second-person singular)
mecspliquera (future indicative singular third-person)
mecspliquerons (first-person future indicative plural)
mecspliquerez (future indicative plural second-person)
mecspliqueront (future indicative plural third-person)
mecspliquerais (conditional first-person singular)
mecspliquerais (conditional second-person singular)
mecspliquerait (conditional singular third-person)
mecspliquerions (conditional first-person plural)
mecspliqueriez (conditional plural second-person)
mecspliqueraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
mecsplique (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mecspliques (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mecsplique (present singular subjunctive third-person)
mecspliquions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mecspliquiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
mecspliquent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mecspliquasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
mecspliquasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
mecspliquât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
mecspliquassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
mecspliquassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
mecspliquassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
mecsplique (imperative second-person singular)
mecspliquons (first-person imperative plural)
mecspliquez (imperative plural second-person)

Blend of mec + expliquer, calque of English mansplain.


gobeur

gobeur m (plural gobeurs, feminine gobeuse)

(France, slang) a drug user, especially one who uses hallucinogens


pitête

(rare, France, colloquial, informal, nonstandard) alternative spelling of peut-être


bigophone

1959, Frédéric Dard (San-Antonio), Tout le plaisir est pour moi, Fleuve Noir, page 13

The moment I get up to put these modest plans into action, the telephone plays the chorus of Ring-ring and I pick up.

À l’instant où je me lève pour mettre ces modestes projets à exécution, le bigophone joue le refrain de Dring-dring et je décroche.


contrepied

contrepieds (plural)
contre-pied (alternative)


PdP

PdPs (plural)
PDP (alternative)
P.D.P. (alternative)
P. D. P. (alternative)

probabilité de précipitation
probabilité de précipitation#French

(France, meteorology) POP (probability of precipitation) abbreviation of probabilité de précipitation


IGN

(France, geography) initialism of Institut Géographique National (the French national geographic institute, now called Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière)


PMU

(by extension, France) a place where one can bet on horse races, usually a café or tabac


PASS

parcours accès spécifique santé
parcours accès spécifique santé#French

(France, education) initialism of parcours accès spécifique santé (“specific health access path”)


mot-dièse

mot-dièse m (plural mots-dièse or mots-dièses or mot-dièses or mot-dièse)

mots-dièse (plural)
mots-dièses (plural)
mot-dièses (plural)
mot-dièse (plural)

Calque of English hashtag. Literally, “hash-word”; dièse is used to mean "hash symbol" (#) but literally means "musical sharp symbol" (♯).

Le mot-dièse a été fortement relayé par l’association SOS Racisme, qui a même organisé un rassemblement de personnes en maillot au parc en question ce dimanche – l’événement a attiré plus de journalistes que d’indignés.

2015 July 25, “La France s’emballe après le passage à tabac d’une femme en bikini”, in Le Soir.be:

Nous avons cherché à mettre en lumière le rôle du mot-dièse et des liens pour prendre une position, diffuser ses opinions et réagir aux opinions des autres, exprimer ses émotions, défendre des valeurs ou se distinguer des autres.

2016, Marko Vidak, Agata Jackiewicz, “Les outils multimodaux de Twitter comme moyens d'expression des émotions et des prises de position”, in Cahiers de praxématique, volume 66:

Cette année, le mot d’ordre c’est le partage. Bonne nouvelle : on vous attend sur les réseaux sociaux, afin que vous nous fassiez part de votre expérience. Photos, vidéos ou simples commentaires, tant que vous mentionnez le compte @fetemusique ou le mot-dièse #FDLM, nous serons ravis de vous relayer !

2017 May 18, Ministère de la Culture, “10 CHOSES À FAIRE ABSOLUMENT POUR LA #FDLM”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2016-08-25:

Le hashtag de Twitter, aussi appelé mot-dièse en français, fête aujourd’hui ses dix ans. L’occasion de revenir sur son histoire, et d’analyser la façon dont il a changé la manière dont nous communiquons.

2017 August 23, Bastien Lepine, “Hashtag : le mot-dièse de Twitter fête ses 10 ans, découvrez son histoire”, in Phonandroid:

Le hashtag fête ses 10 ans. Mot-dièse en France, mot-clic au Québec, ce petit signe typographique en croisillon s’est imposé comme un élément majeur du «langage internet».

2017 August 23, Sylvia Revello, “Une décennie de hashtags”, in Le Temps:

(Internet, France, neologism, rare) hashtag


pataterie

(France) a restaurant that mainly serves potato dishes


bête à Bon Dieu

bête à Bon Dieu f (plural bêtes à Bon Dieu)


Maitre

(France) post-1990 spelling of Maître, a title given to lawyers and notaries public in France, Belgium, and Canada


sport adapté

(France, sports, by restriction) sport for cognitive disability


EHPAD

Acronym of établissement d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes.

acronym

Le ministre de la santé Olivier Véran a annoncé le rétablissement « à partir de » lundi d’un « droit de visite pour les familles » dans les Ehpad, dans des conditions « extrêmement limitées ».

2020 April 19, “Visites en Ehpad, masques, tests… Les principales annonces du gouvernement sur le déconfinement”, in Le Monde:

(France) retirement home, old people's home


gilet jaune

gilets jaunes (plural)
Gilet jaune (alternative)

→ English: gilet jaune, → yellow vest (calque), → yellow jacket (calque)

fr:gilet de haute visibilité
fr:mouvement des Gilets jaunes

For quotations using this term, see Citations:gilet jaune.

(by extension, France, metonymic) a member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018 against rising fuel prices; members of the movement wore such vests


fiche S

Literally, “S card”. The S stands for sûreté de l'État (“state security”).

Le grand chelem espéré a été contrarié par la présence, à Avignon, du très médiatique militant antifa et fiche S Raphaël Arnault.

2024 July 8, François Tonneau, “Avec 17 députés sur 23, le RN bat ses records”, in La Provence, page 6:

(France) an indicator used by French law enforcement to flag an individual considered to be a serious threat to national security, and justifying surveillance but not arrest


sans-abrisme

L'épisode de sans-abrisme se produit souvent au début de l'âge adulte.

2003, Pierre Philippot, Benoît Galand, Les personnes sans-abri en Belgique. Regards croisés des habitants de la rue, de l'opinion publique et des travailleurs sociaux, page 90:


Bercy

(France, metonymic) French ministry of economy and finance


Midol

(France, journalism, sports, informal) the newspaper Midi Olympique


Ovalie

(France, sports) Southwestern France (where rugby is very popular)


Mutuel

Pari mutuel urbain
w:fr:Pari mutuel urbain


Molière

Le comédien reprend, à compter du 21 juin au théâtre Marigny à Paris, son seul en scène « Un soir de gala », qui lui a valu un Molière de l’humour.

2022 June 16, Clément Ghys, “Vincent Dedienne : « On se sent bien quand on fait rire les gens »”, in Le Monde.fr:

(theater, France) A Molière award, the highest honour for theater productions in France.


DEUG

DEUG (plural)
DEUGS (plural)
DEUGs (plural)
Deug (alternative)
deug (alternative)

Diplôme d'études universitaires générales#French

General Academic Studies Degree
General Academic Studies Degree

(France) acronym of Diplôme d'études universitaires générales (“General Academic Studies Degree”)

fr:Diplôme d'études universitaires générales


outre-Rhin

Literally, “across the Rhine (from France and Switzerland)”.

lit

(journalism, France, Switzerland) in Germany


outre-Quiévrain

Literally, “on the other side of Quiévrain”.
Historically, the Quiévrain station was the border crossing on the Paris-Brussels railway, from 1846 until 1988.

(uncommon, journalism, France) in Belgium


outre-Atlantique

Literally, “across the Atlantic (from Europe)”.

(journalism, France) in the United States


carte grise

Literally, “gray card”, historically of a gray color.

(France, Belgium) vehicle registration certificate, car registration document


sous-khôlle

(France, education) oral exam at a prépa or especially during the PASS where the examinator is an older student


Quel Panama!

From the collapse of the Panama Company, under Lesseps, one of the largest corporate collapses in history, when it failed to build the Panama Canal at the end of the 19th century. Literally, “What a Panama!”.

(France, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, New Caledonia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Réunion, West Africa, historical, early 20th c.) what a mess; what a boondoggle; what a disaster

Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia; early 20th c.; Cambodia; Laos; Algeria; Tunisia; early 20th c.


Ral

(France, geography) abbreviation of régional


porteur de contraintes

fr-noun

porteur de contraintes m (plural porteurs de contraintes)

/pɔʁ.tœʁ də kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃t/

Originally shortening of full legal title "huissier porteur de contrainte des gabelles", with "contrainte des gabelles" referring to the notice of execution issued against a taxpayer.

C’était un bien drôle de petit homme que le père Langevin, tailleur et porteur de contraintes au Grand-Fougeray.

1901, Adolphe Orain, Contes de l’Ille-et-Vilaine, page 207:

He was quite an odd little man, that Father Langevin, mason and "porteur de contraintes" in Grand-Fougeray

(historical, France) An individual responsible for delivering a prosecution notice against a negligent taxpayer prescribing an immediate execution.


pécaïre

(Central, France, archaic) gadzooks!; darnation!


pigner

pigner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pignant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pigné (participle past)
pigne (first-person indicative present singular)
pignes (indicative present second-person singular)
pigne (indicative present singular third-person)
pignons (first-person indicative plural present)
pignez (indicative plural present second-person)
pignent (indicative plural present third-person)
pignais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pignais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pignait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pignions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pigniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pignaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pignai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pignas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pigna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pignâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pignâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pignèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
pignerai (first-person future indicative singular)
pigneras (future indicative second-person singular)
pignera (future indicative singular third-person)
pignerons (first-person future indicative plural)
pignerez (future indicative plural second-person)
pigneront (future indicative plural third-person)
pignerais (conditional first-person singular)
pignerais (conditional second-person singular)
pignerait (conditional singular third-person)
pignerions (conditional first-person plural)
pigneriez (conditional plural second-person)
pigneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
pigne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pignes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pigne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pignions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pigniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pignent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pignasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pignasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pignât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pignassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pignassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pignassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pigne (imperative second-person singular)
pignons (first-person imperative plural)
pignez (imperative plural second-person)


INCA

Institut national du cancer
w:fr:Institut national du cancer

(France) acronym of Institut national du cancer (“National Cancer Institute”)


ASN

(France) abbreviation of L'Autorité de sûreté nucléaire


billet de rentrée

billet de rentrée m (plural billets de rentrée)

(education, France) A ticket enabling a pupil to join a class after an absence.


SARL

SARL (plural)
S.à.r.l. (alternative)
sarl (alternative Switzerland)
srl (alternative Belgium)

société à responsabilité limitée
société à responsabilité limitée#French

(France, North Africa) acronym of société à responsabilité limitée: Ltd., LLC


BCRA

w:Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action

(France, historical) initialism of Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action (“Central Bureau of Intelligence and Operations”)


BRAV-M

A l’issue d’un court défilé qui s’est passé globalement dans le calme, Yssoufou Traoré – le frère d’Adama Traoré et d’Assa Traoré, figure du comité La Vérité pour Adama, qui entend lutter contre les violences policières – a été interpellé par des policiers de la BRAV-M, brigade de répression de l’action violente motocycliste.

2023 July 9, Abel Mestre, “Marche pour Adama Traoré : questions autour de l’intervention de la BRAV-M en fin de manifestation”, in Le Monde.fr:

w:fr:brigade de répression de l'action violente motorisée

(France) initialism of brigade de répression de l'action violente motorisée


grande muette

la grande muette f (plural grandes muettes)

la grande muette (canonical feminine)
grandes muettes (plural)
Grande Muette (alternative)

/ɡʁɑ̃d mɥɛt/

La fin de la guerre froide ainsi que l'efficacité de la dissuasion nucléaire ont longtemps justifié une réduction des moyens humains et matériels de la Grande Muette.

2023 October, Allan Popelard, “L'armée, miroir d'une France sans boussole”, in Le Monde diplomatique, page 1:

The end of the Cold War as well as the effectiveness of nuclear deterrence have long justified a reduction of staffing and materiel in the armed forces.


livret A

(France) A type of savings account, regulated by the French government.


bassouiller

bassouiller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
bassouillant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
bassouillé (participle past)
bassouille (first-person indicative present singular)
bassouilles (indicative present second-person singular)
bassouille (indicative present singular third-person)
bassouillons (first-person indicative plural present)
bassouillez (indicative plural present second-person)
bassouillent (indicative plural present third-person)
bassouillais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bassouillais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bassouillait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bassouillions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bassouilliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bassouillaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bassouillai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bassouillas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bassouilla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bassouillâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bassouillâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bassouillèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
bassouillerai (first-person future indicative singular)
bassouilleras (future indicative second-person singular)
bassouillera (future indicative singular third-person)
bassouillerons (first-person future indicative plural)
bassouillerez (future indicative plural second-person)
bassouilleront (future indicative plural third-person)
bassouillerais (conditional first-person singular)
bassouillerais (conditional second-person singular)
bassouillerait (conditional singular third-person)
bassouillerions (conditional first-person plural)
bassouilleriez (conditional plural second-person)
bassouilleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
bassouille (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bassouilles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bassouille (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bassouillions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bassouilliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bassouillent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bassouillasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bassouillasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bassouillât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bassouillassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bassouillassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bassouillassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bassouille (imperative second-person singular)
bassouillons (first-person imperative plural)
bassouillez (imperative plural second-person)

(France, regional) to immerse one's hands, feet or body in water

(France, regional) to squelch around, to wade through (in mud or wet terrain)


quartier prioritaire

quartier prioritaire m (plural quartiers prioritaires)

zone de sécurité prioritaire
zone de sécurité prioritaire#French

(France) synonym of zone de sécurité prioritaire


chômedu

chom'du (alternative)
chomdu (alternative)
chomedu (alternative)

(France, slang) synonym of chômage (“unemployment”)


SMIG

w:fr:salaire minimum interprofessionnel garanti

(France, historical, 1950–1970) acronym of salaire minimum interprofessionnel garanti, now SMIC


secrétaire d'État

secrétaire d'État m or f by sense (plural secrétaires d'État)


sauge écarlate

sauge écarlate f (plural sauges écarlates)

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé

(France, Réunion) blood sage (Salvia coccinea Buc'hoz ex Etl.)


pervenche de Madagascar

pervenche de Madagascar f (plural pervenches de Madagascar)

catharanthe rose
catharanthe rose#French

Catharanthus roseus
Catharanthus roseus#Translingual

(France, Réunion) synonym of catharanthe rose (“rosy periwinkle”) (Catharanthus roseus) (L.) G. Don.)


narchomicide

(France, law enforcement) drug-related murder


agent de maîtrise

agent de maîtrise m (plural agents de maîtrise)

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France (Lyon)


marin-pompier

marin-pompier m (plural marins-pompiers)

En ce premier grand week-end de chassé-croisé des vacances d'été, les marins-pompiers de Marseille appellent à la plus grande vigilance et rappellent les précautions essentielles en cette période.

2024 July 10, “En période estivale, le rappel essentiel des bonnes pratiques”, in La Provence, page 10:

(France, military) a member of a French marine corps principally concerned with firefighting and search and rescue missions


OQTF

(France, law) initialism of obligation de quitter le territoire français (“obligation to leave France”)


PPDA

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor
w:Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

(France) initialism of Patrick Poivre d'Arvor


ramasse-miette

ramasse-miette m (plural ramasse-miettes)

(France) post-1990 spelling of ramasse-miettes


outre-Pyrénées

Literally, “across the Pyrenees (from France)”.


ça le fait

Calque of English that will do (literally “that does it”).

calque

J'en ai assez du discret, du bien-pensant, des paysages gentillets, des neutralités sages, des postulats philosophiques détournés en mode d'emploi, des critiques affables et obligeantes. Ça le fait pas, dans mon cerveau.

2010, Michæl Decker, Fuck me, Fuck you, page 8:

I've had enough of the discreet, of the conforming, of the gentle landscapes, of the cautious neutralities, of the philosophical principles turned into instructions, of the affable & obliging critiques. In my mind, it won't do.

Sur les machines avec filtre accessible de l’extérieur, avant de reposer un filtre neuf, on vérifie que l’ancien a bien son joint d’embase avec lui... Pas la peine de remonter le nouveau filtre avec son joint sur l’ancien joint, ça le fait pas...

2013, La Guzzithèque, Lubrification, page 15:

On machines with a filtre accessible from the outside, before replacing a new filtre, double-check that the old one has it's base gasket with it... No need to refit the new filtre with its gasket on the old gasket, that won't work.

(colloquial, France) expresses that something is suitable, agreeable, or feasible

ll y а des jours, comme ça, où l'on a envie d'écrire à ceux qu'on aime et dire simplement que la vie est belle pour le fan de fantastique car en ce moment, question cinoche, ça le fait grave avec des films comme La Fin des Temps (Arnold, je t'aime !), Peur Bleue (glouglou, fais-moi peur), Sixième Sens (Bruce Willis impec, le gamin fabuleux, la fin; ouah quelle fin !), Stigmata (Arquette possédée, Satan l'habite...) et encore La Maison de l'Horreur, Sleepy Hollow et les futurs Scream 3 et Hypnose, etc.

2000, Christophe Paape, “Courrier des Lecteurs”, in Mad Movies, volume 124, page 64:

There are some days, like this, where one wants to write to those one loves & simply say that life is beautiful for the fantasy fan: because in this moment, when it comes to cinema, things are really awesome with films like The End of Time (Arnold, I love you!), Deep Blue Sea (gulp! scare me), Sixth sense (impeccable Bruce Willis, the wunderkind, the ending; wow what an ending!), Stigmata (Arquette possessed, Satan inhabits her...) & even The House of Horror, Sleepy Hollow, & the future Scream 3 & Hypnosis, etc.

(colloquial, France) [it is; things are] impressive or awesome (often emphasised with grave)


PNAT

parquet national antiterroriste
w:fr:parquet national antiterroriste

(France, law enforcement) initialism of parquet national antiterroriste (“National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office”)


OFPRA

w:fr:Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides

(France) acronym of Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (“French office for the protection of refugees and stateless persons”)


ONF

Office national des forêts
w:fr:Office national des forêts

(France) initialism of Office national des forêts (“National Forests Office”)


CROUS

w:fr:Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires

(France, education) acronym of Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires, administration responsible for student accomodation, canteens, etc.


Doliprane

Dolipranes (plural)
doliprane (alternative)

Doliprane est couramment utilisé pour soulager les maux de tête.

Doliprane is commonly used to relieve headaches.

J'ai recommandé une verveine. Par chance j'avais du Doliprane sur moi.

1996, Vincent Ravalec, La Vie Moderne, Le Dilettante, page 14:

I recommended a vervain. Thankfully I had some Doliprane on me.

(pharmacy, France) a popular brand of paracetamol