OK. It’s a word that you probably use quite regularly as an English speaker (if not all the time). Am I right? So how do you say ok in French?
What’s ok in French? I mean it’s a very useful little word isn’t it? Is there an alternative in the French language?
Oui.
Well, it depends on the situation. Because OK actually has several meanings. Or at least, it is said in a bunch of different situations where the words doesn’t convey the same idea.
So I’ve put together this list of 10 ways to say OK in French : casual, formal, slang, funny,…
Let’s gooooooo.
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10 ways to say OK in French
So, OK can mean several things: it can mean you agree to something, it can mean that you see no objection to something, or that something is ok, or even stop in some occasions.
Here are the 10 different words and phrases to say OK in French
- OK
- D’accord
- D’acc
- Dac-o-dac
- Pas de problème
- Pas de soucis
- Ça marche
- Ça roule
- Pas grave
- Bien / Bon
- C’est bon
And now, you need to practice them to remember them! Deal? Deal? Good.
Let’s see all the different variations. Take some notes, this is going to improve your French vocabulary!
I’m going to detail the words, and give you a bit of context.
OK
Yesss, we say it too. Same spelling, same pronunciation. But with a French accent 😉
Try it, it’s fun!
D'accord (Standard French)
Now, if you don’t want to use English words with a French accent, you can use ‘D’accord’. That’s standard French.
And what most French speakers who don’t want to use English words would use.
It literally means ‘Agreed’. And we say it pretty much all the time.
Comes from the verb ‘accorder’, if you want to know everything!
How to pronounce ‘D’accord’? Without pronouncing the final D 😊
Alternatives: ‘Je suis d’accord’, from the verb ‘être d’accord’. So you can conjugate it: je suis d’accord, tu es d’accord, il est d’accord, nous sommes d’accord, vous êtes d’accord, ils sont d’accord,…
D'acc / Dac-o-dac (Cool French)
Use those short expressions to say ok, if you want to sound cool and / or edgy. If you want to sound bilingual, that’s the expression you should use.
D’acc is just a short to say ‘D’accord’.
Dac-o-dac is a funny, a bit outdated, way to say… you guessed it! D’accord. It’s got a funny spelling too so that’s fun.
Pronunciation wise: the c is pronounced like a /k/.
Pas de problème / Pas de soucis
They both literally means ‘no problem’ – and I’m personally using both VERY often (at least more that I’d like to admit).
You can use them to answer ‘D’accord?’ (Agreed?) – ‘Pas de soucis’ (No problem).
Un soucis, is a small problem. I know you don’t like when there are several words from the same concept, but hey that’s one 😊
Both ‘un soucis’ et ‘un problème’ are masculine nouns. And ‘un soucis’ takes an -s at the plural AND the singular.
Speaking French? Pas de soucis!
Note: note how French people are only ok when there is no problem aha Language and culture eh!
Ça marche / Ça roule (slang-ish French)
In another flavour of modern French, you can also use those two to mean ok in French.
Ça marche : literally means ‘it walks’/ ‘it works’
Ça roule: translates into ‘it rolls’.
Funny isn’t it? Look at you learning all this cool vocabulary!!
It’s not very polite though, I mean, not mean or insulting or vulgar. But veeeryyy casual.
Pas grave. (Casual French)
If you were to mean ‘ok’ as in ‘ok you did something wrong but it doesn’t matter much’.
You could say ‘Pas grave’.
Means ‘nothing serious’.
‘Grave’ is actually a hard word to translate in English I find. Serious doesn’t quite cut it. It’s in between serious and critical.
This is something you are going to hear a lot if you want to immerse yourself in France. And a word which is usually not taught! You’re welcome!
Bien / Bon. (Standard French)
Not to be confused with Bien as in Good.
These two are like short expressions. A bit like ‘well’. And would be used instead of ‘ok’. It’s not really standard French grammar, but if you are a learner who wants to understand French natives… It’s for you.
‘Bon, on y va?’ – ‘Ok, we’re leaving?’
Really useful word if you want to sound fluent!
C'est bon.
Sometimes, a ok is not just a ok. And that’s the beauty of languages! (yes I’m putting on my linguist costume).
It takes on a full other meaning when you say it like ‘It’s enough’.
‘Ok, stop it now’.
And in this instance, in French, you would translate ‘Ok’ in ‘C’est bon’.
‘C’est bon, arrête maintenant.’
