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ça a gâté
🇨🇮 French slang from West Africa
What does “ça a gâté” mean?
it went off, it was amazing
Example
“Hier au concert, ça a gâté !”
Last night at the concert, it went off!
Good to know
In Ivorian French 'gâter' (to spoil) means to blow up, positively. 'Gâter le coin' = to tear the place up.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: C'était génial !
Heard in a conversation
A wedding in Yopougon
Kouamé Regarde Didier sur la piste... le môgô danse comme un gaou !
Look at Didier on the dance floor... the guy dances like a total newbie!
Mariam Laisse-le, c'est son jour ! En tout cas, ça a gâté ce soir.
Leave him alone, it's his day! Anyway, tonight was amazing.
🔥 How other countries say “awesome, amazing”
More from West Africa
- s'enjaillerto have fun, party
- maquisopen-air bar-restaurant
- faroterto show off (with money)
- zouglouzouglou: Abidjan’s student-born dance music
- coupé-décalécoupé-décalé: flashy Ivorian party music
- une drogbaa big bottle of beer
- ambiancerto get the party going, to liven things up
- le tchapalomillet beer
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