French idioms
Le monde francophone · 44 destinations · Choisissez votre départ
Idioms do not travel as well as the language does. The map has the ones tied to a particular place. Plenty of others are used everywhere French is spoken, and you can hear those in all eight accents.
Tap a country to pick a destination. Pinch or use the corner buttons to zoom.
Francophone destinations
Belgium76%63 →63 expressions →
Canada29%62 →62 expressions →
France97%41 →41 expressions →
Switzerland67%32 →32 expressions →
Côte d'Ivoire34%31 →31 expressions →
Burkina Faso24%23 →23 expressions →
Togo41%19 →19 expressions →
Senegal26%18 →18 expressions →
Benin34%17 →17 expressions →
DR Congo51%16 →16 expressions →
Niger13%15 →15 expressions →
Mali17%14 →14 expressions →
Haiti42%11 →11 expressions →
Cameroon41%9 →9 expressions →
New Caledonia (France)9 →9 expressions →
Chad13%8 →8 expressions →
Algeria33%7 →7 expressions →
Republic of the Congo61%6 →6 expressions →
Gabon65%3 →3 expressions →
Rwanda6%3 →3 expressions →
Central African Republic29%2 →2 expressions →
Guadeloupe (France)2 →2 expressions →
Lebanon38%2 →2 expressions →
Luxembourg92%2 →2 expressions →
Martinique (France)2 →2 expressions →
Morocco36%2 →2 expressions →
Réunion (France)2 →2 expressions →
Tunisia52%2 →2 expressions →
French Guiana (France)1 →1 expression →
Mauritius73%1 →1 expression →
14 more destinations, no expressions yet
Burundi9%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Cambodia3%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Comoros26%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Djibouti50%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
French Polynesia (France)No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Guinea25%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Laos3%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Madagascar28%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Mauritania13%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Mayotte (France)No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Monaco97%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Seychelles53%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Vanuatu31%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Vietnam1%No expressions yetNo expressions yet
Why the counts are uneven
A country's number counts the expressions tied to that place, not everything used there. 180 of 421 carry no country at all, so an idiom everyone knows in France usually sits there rather than under France.
Quebec has been the easiest place to source from, so it is further along than the rest. The aim is the whole French-speaking world, so if you know one that is missing, send it over.
After you pick a country
Pick one and you get the collection filtered to it, with a literal translation and audio for every idiom. If you would rather guess than read, the quiz draws its questions from the same set.
Eight accents
Most idioms here are read in all eight: France, Quebec, Belgium, Switzerland, Haiti, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Togo. One tied to specific places is read only in the accents of those places.
Each voice is cloned from a real person's recording. It is still generated audio though, so some clips come out wrong. If one sounds off to you it probably is. Tell me and I'll fix it.