How to say goodbye like a French person? This is what we are going to see together in today’s video Common Ways .
Hello and thank you for joining me for this new video from Français Authentique. So, as you know, in French, there are a multitude of ways to say goodbye. And of course, you have to be careful, you have to be careful, because you can’t use these different ways at any time. They always depend on the context. It will sometimes depend on the time of day. Is it morning, noon, afternoon, evening? It will depend on the context. Are we in a formal, strict environment, or an informal, non-strict one, when we are among friends for example? It will depend on the person to whom we are saying goodbye. Is it a stranger? Is it a relative? Are we in a work relationship? And of course, it will depend on the language register. Are we in everyday language or colloquial language?
What we’re offering you today is a list of 15 ways to say goodbye like a French person, and we’ve summarized all of that in a free PDF sheet , which you can download right now. It’s the first link in the description. It summarizes everything we’re going to see today. And you can download it to review it all, because at Français Authentique, we don’t just listen once, we use repetition. That’s rule 2 of Français Authentique . So download this free PDF sheet and let’s move on to the content.
Let’s start with a neutral or formal context
so in which we use the formal “vous”. So these are eight relatively standard ways to say goodbye.
The first one is simply “goodbye”. It’s the simplest and most neutral way to end a conversation. So if you’re in doubt, if you’re not sure, use “goodbye”. You can’t go wrong.
Again, it’s very classic. When you say good day to someone, you’re saying goodbye, but there’s something a little more positive, since you wish them a good day, a pleasant day. So it’s a little bit more positive than “goodbye”. You understood that if it was morning or afternoon, you would say “good day”; if it was evening, you would say “good evening”. In both cases, it belgium whatsapp number data means “goodbye and I wish you a good day or a good evening”. You can use them pretty much all the time. It’s like “goodbye”, it’s very classic. You can use them in all situations.
Third: See you soon
In French, there are many expressions or phrases with the preposition “à”. “À bientôt” (To soon) gives the idea of ”goodbye”, of course, but there is the idea that you will see this person again, you are sure that winson ly you will see them again. It is a completely classic formula that can be used in most situations in which we will see the person again. We can also use it in writing, in text messages for example. We can end a text message or a WhatsApp message by saying “à bientôt”.
Fourth: At + a date or day of the week
This is used when you know exactly when you
will see someone again. If, for example, you and I have an appointment on Wednesday and it is Monday, we will see each other on Monday, and rather than saying “see you soon” or “goodbye”, I can say “see you on Wednesday”. This is once again the preposition “to”. And this expression is used when we know exactly when we will see the person again. We can say: see you tomorrow, see you Monday, see you next week.
Fifth: See you soon
Once again, we use the preposition “à”. We use “à tout de suite” when we are going to see the person again right after. So it’s not really a “goodbye” in the sense we’ll see each other again in a few days, it’s really ao lists we see each other again in a few minutes, à tout de suite. And you notice once again, since I just pronounced it this way that the “e”, when spoken, of “de” tends to disappear. We rarely say “à tout de suite”, we French speakers would rather say “à tout d’suite”.
Sixth: See you later
Again with the preposition “à”. À tout à l’heure, you also notice a liaison. Tout à l’heure. We don’t say “à tout à l’heure”, but “à tout_à l’heure”. And we use it when we will see the person again today. “À tout de suite” means “goodbye, goodbye,
For example, if we work together and we have a meeting in the morning and we will see each other again in the afternoon, I can say to you “see you later”. It means “goodbye, we’ll see each other again today”.