parlez vous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French parlez-vous français? (“do you speak French?”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]parlez vous (third-person singular simple present parlez vouses, present participle parlez vousing, simple past and past participle parlez voused)
- (humorous) To speak a foreign language, particularly French.
- 1980, Billy Joel, Don’t Ask Me Why, Columbia Records:
- Now your ghosts have gone away […] Now you, “parlez vous francais”
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:parlez vous.