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French Phrases

Can you guess the English equivalents of these French words and phrases?
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Last updated: October 15, 2021
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First submittedJune 27, 2017
Times taken28,095
Average score70.0%
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French
English
Au revoir
Goodbye
Comment ça va ?
How are you?
Comment vous appelez-vous ?
What's your name?
Quelle heure est-il ?
What time is it?
Peut-être
Maybe
S'il vous plaît
Please
Enchanté
Nice to meet you
Je t'aime
I love you
Combien ça coûte ?
How much does it cost?
D'accord
Okay
French
English
Parlez-vous anglais ?
Do you speak English?
Allons-y
Let's go
Je ne sais pas
I don't know
Au secours !
Help!
Quoi de neuf ?
What's new?
Je suis perdu
I am lost
Comment dit-on … ?
How do you say …
Je voudrais un café
I would like a coffee
Il fait froid
It's cold
Désolé
Sorry
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Level 86
Jun 29, 2017
Let's put this more directly. "Combien coûte-t-il ?" is slightly incorrect. You really should ask "Combien ça coûte ?" instead.
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Level ∞
Jun 29, 2017
Okay, I'll take your word for it
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Level 76
Jun 24, 2021
allow ‘how much does this cost’?
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Level 57
Jul 14, 2017
or just

combien ?

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Level 72
Jul 14, 2017
"Combien" can also mean "How many".
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Level 74
Jun 29, 2017
I don't know much French but I immediately knew Allons-y from Doctor Who. Who says TV isn't educational?
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Level 72
Jul 16, 2017
After I filled the answers I know, I immediately scrolled down to see if someone else made the connection. Why, oh, why am I not surprised? :) Alons-y, Alonso!
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Level 81
Jul 14, 2017
Plaît and café are missing diacritics.
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Level 48
Jul 14, 2017
I was about to comment that same thing
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Level ∞
Jul 14, 2017
Fixed
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Level 70
Jan 8, 2021
Why are you always so diacritical about everything??
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Level 81
Jul 14, 2017
Enchante should accept "charmed", which is more accurate than "Pleased to meet you".
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Level 57
Jul 14, 2017
Enchante is more correct. Meaning "pleased to meet you

chamred would be: "charmed I´m shure"

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Level 47
Jul 14, 2017
Seconded. I went for "charmed" first. Also, I tried "could be" or "possibly" for peut-etre but somehow didn't hit on "maybe."
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Level 74
Jul 14, 2017
I cannot imagine a man saying "charmed" in English, but « enchanté » is absolutely "pleased to meet you".
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Level 66
Jan 17, 2019
Not in america, there it would be wazzupp
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Level 70
Jul 14, 2017
It means "Enchanted", or "Charming", as in "It's charming to meet you".
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Level ∞
Jul 14, 2017
Charmed will work now
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Level 64
Sep 15, 2021
Delighted should be accepted also. It's often translated that way, if you've read any translations of French novels
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Level 40
Dec 9, 2017
Well, the title says "phrases". Is "charmed a phrase like "enchanté" can be in french?
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Level 80
Jul 14, 2017
"What's new?" is accepted, but not "what is new?"
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Level ∞
Jul 14, 2017
What is new will work now
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Level 68
Jul 14, 2017
If I spoke French I might have gotten at least one question right
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Level 37
Jul 14, 2017
Know very little French, but got all but three. (It helps to have a familiarity with other romance languages)
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Level 89
Jul 14, 2022
I think the first time I took this quiz I did pretty well but now I struggle a bit. My knowledge of French has been dwindling over the years.
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Level 84
Jul 14, 2017
3 of 20. :-(

Clearly I don't parlez vous Francais quite bon enough.

My best guess for "Je suis perdu" was "I am a chicken." Swing and a miss.

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Level 86
Sep 10, 2017
That would be "Je suis un poulet". Strange guess...
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Level 37
Jun 11, 2018
^ Thinking perhaps of 'Purdue" the chicken farmer?
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Level 84
Jul 14, 2017
Man, those French. They have a different word for everything! :-)
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Level 62
Jun 29, 2020
I think about 20% of English words derive from French
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Level 77
Jul 14, 2017
If anyone wants to know how to cheat this quiz, go to google and have it translate the page for you :D Instant 100% :P

To be serious though, it is a great quiz.

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Level 37
Nov 15, 2017
Why would you want to cheat? Isn't the object of taking the quiz to rest your knowledge and perhaps learn a thing or two? Cheating defeats that purpose somewhat, doesn't it?
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Level 92
Mar 19, 2018
Some of my research recently has involved French journals, so I've set my browser to automatically translate from French. I stared at the quiz for about 30 seconds trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing before it dawned on me what had happened.
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Level 48
Oct 15, 2018
judging by the comments in many, many comments sections, people don't see anything wrong with cheating... if i have one or two answers left, and no idea , even with 2 minutes spare i will give up...
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Level 14
May 11, 2018
Je t'aime means I like it not I love it. Please fix this error, thank you.
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Level 48
Oct 15, 2018
actually, the t-apostrophe means te... YOU second person singular, not it... je l'aime means i like/love it
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Level 66
Jan 17, 2019
amor is love
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Level 62
Jun 29, 2020
Amour is the noun 'love'. Adorer is the verb 'to love'
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Level 78
Oct 13, 2020
Michael001 you are absolutely definitely wrong. Je t'aime means I love you. Just ask Serge Gainsbourg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA
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Level 71
Jul 15, 2022
No, Je t'aime means only "I love you".

If the object were an "it" then you'd be right: Je l'aime meaning "I like it."

To say "I like you," it's Je t'aime bien. To say "I love it," try Je l'adore.

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Level 80
Apr 7, 2019
S'il vous plait is more literally "if you please". That should be one of the answers. That is part of RSVP -- Repondez s'il vous plait. It didn't occur to me to just put "please".
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Level 62
Jul 14, 2022
Or, even more literally, “if it pleases you”!
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Level 38
Sep 15, 2020
In ''Parler vous anglais'' Maybe you should also accept ''Do you talk english
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Level 50
Jul 14, 2022
That's not normal English.
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Level 69
Jul 14, 2022
Am I the only person who wasn't able to find the meaning of "d'accord" because I kept typing "all right" and "fine", and never even thought of "OK"?

It's a great quiz for practising everyday small talk. But could these be type-ins for dummies like me?

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Level 66
Jul 14, 2022
I wouldnt think of OK either, but I tried "agreed" and it worked.
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Level 70
Jul 16, 2022
D'accord I always thought meant Of course.
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Level 56
Jul 17, 2022
I always use bien sûr for of course
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Level 67
Jul 14, 2022
I tried learning French at the beginning of the pandemic and I didn't get very far, but luckily most of these were covered in the first set of lessons. Did better than I expected.
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Level 71
Jul 14, 2022
Who's the girl in the picture?
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Level 54
Jul 14, 2022
Comment dit-on is how do we say
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Level 55
May 11, 2023
Maybe ? too ? many ? spaces ?
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Level 67
Oct 27, 2023
I can't speak French so I typed 'Help' and 'I don't know', and got two correct answers.