Common French expressions
These idiomatic expressions are widely used in places where French is spoken, but some make little sense when translated directly into English. They’re similar to the English expressions How’s it going? or What’s up? in that, read literally, they don’t make much sense. How’s what going? Up where? Comment allez-vous? Pronounced commahn-tallay-voo, this phrase means How are you? Comment means how; allez is a conjugated version of the verb aller, meaning to go; and vous means you. Thus, the phrase translates …
