La nourriture in real spoken French
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How French people REALLY talk about food — the slang you’ll hear every day.
📓 Le vocabulaire de tous les jours
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food (slang)
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to eat (slang)
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I’m starving
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a restaurant
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it’s so good
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it’s amazing
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something to snack on
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to grab a burger
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starving
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yum!
🔊 Example sentences
J’ai la dalle, on va bouffer ?I’m starving, shall we get food?
Ce resto, c’est de la balle !This restaurant is amazing!
On se tape un burger ce soir ?Shall we grab a burger tonight?
💡 Your Native goal
This is how the French actually use it day to day — including what textbooks skip. Absorb the real patterns and let go of over-correctness.
Feeling shaky? Step back to La Nourriture at C2.
T’as un truc à grignoter ?Got something to snack on?
✍️ Practice
J’ai la ___ ! (starving) (slang)
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dalle
On va ___ ? (eat, slang) (verb)
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bouffer
C’est de la ___ ! (amazing) (slang)
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balle
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