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See you at "wat" tonight for the party?

I'm always coming across the "teubés", it's really "ouf"! He's so "worshipped" me, frankly.

Do you know what verlan is? Verlan is part of French slang.

Verlan consists of inverting two syllables of a word, sometimes even modifying certain vowels.

Welcome to this new video, I hope you're feeling well. Today we're going to take a look at seven French verlan words. You may have heard these words in films, TV shows or simply if you have friends who speak French and are native speakers.

Not everyone uses verlan, it's more a colloquial language since it's slang and will be used more by young people in France.

Let's start with the first word, or rather the first two words. It's "wam" and "wat".

"Wam" is simply me. And "wat" is simply you. So if I say we're going to wat's or wam's, it means we're going to yours or mine.

Whose bag is this? Somebody please tell me it's wam's, which means it's mine.

Second word, to be "venereal". If I say I'm "venereal", it means I'm pissed.

You see, the two syllables are reversed. Enervé, vénère. It's a word that's often used in slang. I missed my train to Paris. I've been venereous all afternoon because of that. I'm too vengeful about my sister, she put on my sweater without asking me.

Cimer. Cimer, I don't know if you recognize the two syllables that are reversed, but it's thank you. In slang, when you want to thank someone, you can simply say "cimer", instead of "thank you".

You can also use it in a slightly ironic tone. For example, if someone says to you "ah you've put on a little weight? No ". You can reply, "Cimer, that's a pleasure, at least the compliment is".

Whew! Crazy. Ouf! We use it either negatively or positively, but a bit like the word crazy.

You can say that someone is ouf! To say that it's an extraordinary person, that it's a great person. I've seen Céline Dion in concert, and she's really crazy.

To say it's really extraordinary. But on the other hand, you can say, for example, he didn't stop at the red light, he's really a madman!

Someone who's nuts or something that's nuts.

It means something silly in verlan. For example, I can say that what you're saying is really bullshit, because Martians are never going to come to Earth. Thibault really is a dick. I asked him how much was 2+2 and he answered 5. He's a real dick !

Relou. You can either say that something is sloppy or that someone is sloppy. Rough is the opposite of heavy. When something is heavy, it's boring, to use another colloquial word.

It's a real pain to have to take a four-hour train journey with crying children next to you. It's hard to bear, it's a drag. We also use it, for example, for a task that's boring to do. I have to do my bookkeeping, it's really boring.

Or if, for example, when I'm at a party, it's always boys I'm not interested in, who come up and talk to me for hours. I can tell I'm always attracting the relous.

And the last word we're going to use to talk about partying is teuf. Teuf is a word we use all the time in colloquial language, it's a slang word for party. I went to a party on Saturday night. Or I partied with my friends.

That's it for today, I hope you enjoyed discovering these slang words. If you liked this video, put a "like". Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to make other videos where I teach you slang words or French slang words in general.