School situations with classmates and teachers (Advanced): Making studying plans with classmates

💬 À plusieurs means 'with several people'. It works after almost any activity, as in manger à plusieurs "eat together as a group".

💬 Its normal meaning is 'kind' or 'type'. In speech it's a filler, like English 'like', placed before a rough estimate or example.

🇫🇷 Very common among students and young people. It sounds too slangy for talking to a teacher.

💬 The pattern fois par lets you give any frequency. For example, trois fois par mois "three times a month".

🇫🇷 An enthusiastic, casual yes between friends. It's a step up from a plain oui and can sound a bit too familiar with a teacher.

💬 The word for 'need' is avoir besoin de "to have need of". En replaces the 'of it' part, which is why it sits before ai.

💬 L' is la shortened before a vowel and can't stand alone. Éco is short for économie, and students clip most subject names this way, as in la philo "philosophy".

💬 On literally means 'one', but in everyday speech it's the usual way to say 'we'. Its verb takes the same form as for 'he' or 'she'.

💬 To suggest something to someone, French uses proposer à, with à before the person. Here the idea itself is left unsaid because it's already clear from the conversation.

💬 Putting le before a day turns it into a regular habit. Mardi alone means this Tuesday; le mardi means every Tuesday.

💬 Irait comes from aller "to go", even though it looks nothing like it. Ça me va "that works for me" is the matching way to say yes.

🇫🇷 Students say bosser for both studying and paid work. Keep it for friends, and use travailler with teachers.

🇫🇷 French schedules use the 24-hour clock, so vingt heures is 8 p.m. In conversation people still often say huit heures du soir.

💬 Arranger here means 'to suit' or 'be convenient', not 'arrange'. You'll also hear it as ça m'arrange "that suits me".

💬 Literally "that goes to me". Swap the person to ask a question: ça vous va ? "does that suit you?"

💬 BU stands for bibliothèque universitaire and is said letter by letter: (bay-ew).

🇫🇷 Every student calls it that; nobody says the full name. It's the go-to place for group study.

💬 Prises is pris "taken" with an added -es because it describes salles, which is feminine and plural. In speech, the added e makes the s audible: (preez).

🇫🇷 Many French schools have no classes on Wednesday afternoons. That makes it a popular study slot, which is why library rooms fill up.

💬 When you say 'one' of something already mentioned, French adds en "of them" before the verb. Without it, je peux réserver une sounds incomplete.

💬 Dès means 'starting from', and it stresses how soon something can happen. Try it with other times: dès demain "from tomorrow".

💬 Top has been borrowed into French as a casual word meaning 'great'. Ce serait "that would be" combines with any adjective, as in ce serait parfait "that would be perfect".

💬 Ce serait is the softer "would be" form of c'est. Swap in any adjective to react politely to an offer, as in Ce serait parfait "That would be perfect".

🇫🇷 Top is casual and very common among students. You'd say it to classmates, but switch to Ce serait très bien with a teacher.

💬 Prévenir looks like "prevent" but means to warn or give someone a heads-up. Use it for any advance notice: Je préviens le prof "I'll let the teacher know".

💬 The se means "among ourselves", so the group shares the chapters out to each other. Change it to match who's speaking: On se répartit les chapitres "We split up the chapters".

💬 Literally "from his or her side". The son changes with the person, as in de mon côté "on my end" or de notre côté "on our end".

💬 Ce sera is the future of c'est, so it predicts "it will be". Compare ce serait "it would be", which only differs by the ending yet sounds less certain.

💬 En stands for "about it" and sits right before the verb, so you don't repeat the topic. A plain statement turns into a suggestion just by rising your voice at the end.

🇫🇷 On meaning "we" is the everyday way students propose plans. Nous would sound stiff among classmates.

💬 Literally "that works", it's a quick yes to any plan. Don't translate it as walking.

💬 L' is la shortened before a vowel and always attaches to the next word. You hear one sound: (lee-day).

💬 Merci d'avoir plus a past action thanks someone for something already done. Reuse it: Merci d'avoir partagé tes notes "Thanks for sharing your notes".