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Langues
Parlez-vous français ? What about another language? Here’s how to say the most commonly spoken and studied languages in French, plus a few more for good measure.
Arabic | l’arabe | |
Bengali | le bengali | |
Chinese | le chinois | |
Dutch | le néerlandais | |
English | l’anglais | |
Farsi | le farsi | |
Flemish | le flamand | |
French | le français | |
Gaelic | le gaélique | |
German | l’allemand | |
Greek | le grec | |
Hebrew | l’hébreu | |
Hindi | l’hindi | |
Irish | l’irlandais | |
Italian | l’italien | |
Japanese | le japonais | |
Korean | le coréen | |
Mandarin | le mandarin | |
Polish | le polonais | |
Portuguese | le portugais | |
Punjabi | le pendjabi | |
Russian | le russe | |
Spanish | l’espagnol | |
Swahili | le swahili / souahéli | |
Tagalog | le tagal | |
Ukrainian | l’ukrainien | |
Vietnamese | le vietnamien | |
Welsh | le gallois |
Notes
- All languages are masculine.
- Languages are never capitalized in French.
- Many languages are identical to their respective nationalities.
French expressions with languages
- Impossible n’est pas français – There’s no such word as "can’t"
- parler le français comme une vache espagnole – to speak broken French
Verb conjugations
Related features
- Capitalization
- Countries and continents
- Essential French
- Nouns and gender
- Why learn another language?
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