le chômage
🇧🇪 French slang from Belgium
What does “le chômage” mean?
unemployment (and the benefit)
Example
“Je suis au chômage depuis mars.”
I've been unemployed since March.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
💼 Work
The textbook way to say it: être sans emploi
More from Belgium
- c’est binnendone, sorted, in the bag (Brussels)
- au noiroff the books, cash in hand
- les allocsbenefits (family or unemployment)
- indépendantself-employed
- un intérima temp job
- les congés du bâtimentthe builders’ holiday (three weeks in July)
- un job d’étudianta student job (on a special contract)
- presterto work, to put in (hours)
Songs from Belgium
- Papaoutai · StromaeLevel A2
- Bruxelles je t'aime · AngèleLevel A2
- Alors on danse · StromaeLevel B1
- Santé · StromaeLevel B1
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