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🇫🇷 French Word of the Day

vachement

adv.

[vaʃmɑ̃] vahsh-MAHN

really, hugely — the everyday intensifier (literally ‘cow-ly’)

Ton gâteau est vachement bon !Your cake is seriously good!
On a vachement apprécié votre accueil.We really appreciated your welcome.
Related words
  • hyper — mega, really
  • super — super, really
  • drôlement — awfully, terribly

Nobody quite knows how ‘vache’ — cow — became an intensifier, but since the 1930s the French have found things vachement bien without blinking an eyelid.

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