| A | B |
|---|
| le bébé | baby |
| le boulot | job (slang) |
| la cité | low income housing apt. complexes |
| la cigale | cicada |
| le/la gosse | kid (slang) |
| la honte | shame |
| avoir honte | to be embarrassed/ashamed |
| l'instituteur/l'institutrice | grade school teacher |
| le paysage | countryside (landscape) |
| le pompier | fireman |
| le pote | friend (slang) |
| la Provence | region of SE France |
| le sens | sense |
| la tâche | chore |
| avoir envie (de) | to feel like |
| provençal(e) | from Provence |
| faire une bouffe | make a meal (slang) |
| figurer | to be written |
| nuire | to be harmful |
| se débrouiller | to manage |
| se déguiser (en) | to dress up (as) |
| s'ennuyer | to be bored |
| s'occuper (de) | to take care (of) |
| se tromper | to make a mistake |
| vouloir dire | to mean |
| Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire? | What does that mean? |
| à l'envers | in reverse/backwards/inside-out |
| comme d'habitude | as usual |
| parfois | sometimes |
| hyper | like in hyper-rare |
| super | like in super-potes |
| ultra | like in ultra mode |
| archi | like in archi-nul |
| méga | like in méga fan |
| ado | short for adolescent |
| bio | short for biologie |
| compo | short for composition |
| Ricains | short for Américains |
| comme d'hab | short for comme d'habitude |
| à tout' | short for à tout à l'heure |
| le verlan | "language" where words are reversed |
| la mifa | verlan for famille |
| les renps | verlan for parents |
| le reup | verlan for père |
| la reum | verlan for mère |
| les reufs | verlan for frères |
| les reus | verlan for soeurs |
| askeum | verlan of phrase "comme ça" |
| le veul | verlan of verlan (double verlan) |
| la meuf | verlan for femme |
| la feum/la feumeu | veul for meuf/femme |
| casbah | borrowed from arab for maison |
| kiffer | borrowed from arab for s'amuser |
| raclo/racli | borrowed from gypsy lang. for garçon/fille |
| gore/gorette | borrowed from African lang. for garçon/fille |
| flipper | borrowed from English for pinball |
| cool | borrowed from English |
| une nuigrave | cigarette from phrase "nuit gravement à la santé" |
| oui/ouais | yes/yeah |
| criminel | slang for très très beau |
| ça me gêne | that bothers me |
| avoir hâte | to be anxious |
| la parité | political term for equal # of men & women/quotas |
| vouloir | to want |
| aimer mieux | to prefer |
| préférer | to prefer |
| souhaiter | to wish |
| exiger | to demand |
| kisdé | cop- from the phrase "qui se déguise" |
| ahcouma | borrowed from arabic for honte |
| tchacher | chat-from the phrase "cha-cha", the sound a cicada makes |
| grave | orig-serious, djeun's-très/imbécile |
| partager | to share |
| un métier | a job/profession |
| gêner | to bother |
| les textos | text messages (also called SMS) |
| 6né | SMS for "ciné" (movies) |
| A+ | SMS for "à plus" (later) |
| @2m1 | SMS for "à demain" (see you tomorrow) |
| auj | SMS for "aujourd'hui" (today) |
| BCP | SMS fro "beaucoup" (a lot) |
| bjr | SMS for "bonjour" (hello) |
| C/Cé | SMS for "c'est" (it is) |
| CPG | SMS for "c'est pas grave" (no big deal) |
| d'ac | SMS for "d'accord" (OK) |
| G/ Jé | SMS for "J'ai" (I have) |
| Ki | SMS for "qui" (who/whom?) |
| Kdo | SMS for "cadeau" (gift) |
