Small talk with coworkers: Talking about lunch plans in the break room

💬 D' only appears joined to the next word and never stands alone. On its own, à côté means "nearby" or "beside." The added d' lets it describe the noun before it, as in le café d'à côté "the café next door."

💬 In casual speech the ne is usually dropped, so you'll often hear Je sais pas encore. Many people run it together even further, to something like (shay pah).

💬 Tu veux plus an unchanged action word is the easy way to invite someone. You can swap in other verbs: Tu veux manger ? "Do you want to eat?"

💬 After words like avec, French uses moi rather than je. Likewise avec toi "with you" and avec lui "with him."

🇫🇷 Colleagues of similar rank usually use tu "you (informal)" with each other in many French workplaces. With a senior manager or someone you've just met, Vous voulez venir avec moi ? is safer.

💬 Leur gets an s before a plural noun. That s is silent, so leur and leurs sound the same unless the next word starts with a vowel.

💬 Super is a casual "really" and never changes form. Bon does change: it takes an s here to match the plural sandwichs.

🇫🇷 This is the standard warm way to accept an invitation in French. It sounds friendly and natural, not stiff the way "with pleasure" can in English.

💬 In everyday French, on is the usual way to say "we," and it takes the same verb form as il "he." The more formal equivalent is nous partons.

💬 Put vers before a time to make it approximate. For example, vers une heure means "around one o'clock."

💬 Te is the informal "you." With someone you address as vous, say Ça vous va ? instead.

💬 L' is la shortened before a vowel. It only appears joined to the next word and never stands alone.

💬 This means "see you later" in the sense of later today only. For another day, use À demain "See you tomorrow" or À bientôt "See you soon."