French Lesson 2: Saying Goodbye

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Au revoir

In most cases, you can use “au revoir” when you or someone else is leaving, but, depending on the time of the day, you can adapt the phrase as you will see in the next examples. “Au revoir” basically means “until I see you again”. Translated literally, it means “until [we] see [each other] again”. Take a look at the following examples from the “Usage” section:

Usage

English	Audio	French
Goodbye Good day		Au revoir
Have a nice day!		Bonne journée!
Good evening		Bonsoir
Good night		Bonne nuit
Good bye and see you tomorrow		Au revoir et à demain
Good evening ladies and gentlemen		Bonsoir mesdames et messieurs
Good night children		Bonne nuit les enfants
Bye!		Salut! (informal)
See you soon		À bientôt
See you tomorrow		À demain
Bye everybody!		Salut tout le monde! (very informal)
See you soon my friend		A bientôt mon ami
See you tomorrow morning		A demain matin

Exercises

Vocabulary

Listen	French	English
	ami	goodfriend (noun)
	à	at, to (preposition)
	à bientôt	see you soon
	au	at, to, to the…, in(to) the… (preposition, a + le)
	bientôt	soon (adverb)
	demain	tomorrow (noun)
	enfant, enfants	child, children (noun)
	journée	day
	mon	my (used for masculine nouns) (pronoun)
	nuit	night (noun)
	revoir	to see again (verb)
	voir	to see (verb)

The full French course:

1. French Lesson 1: Saying Hello
2. French Lesson 2: Saying Goodbye