tof
🇧🇪 French slang from Belgium
What does “tof” mean?
great, cool
Example
“C'était vraiment tof, ta soirée.”
Your party was really great.
Good to know
From Brussels dialect. Also spelled 'toff'.
Who you can say it to
With friends, not your boss
☕ Everyday🎉 Going out
The textbook way to say it: super
Heard in a conversation
Haggling at the Brussels flea market
Maxime Laura, on va aux puces du Jeu de Balle ? Il y a toujours du brol tof.
Laura, shall we go to the Jeu de Balle flea market? There's always cool junk.
Laura Allez ! Mais prends un parapluie, ils annoncent la drache tout l'après-midi.
Let's go! But take an umbrella, they're forecasting a downpour all afternoon.
🔥 How other countries say “awesome, amazing”
- 🇫🇷 c'est le feuFrance
- 🇨🇦 écœurantQuébec · In France it only means 'disgusting'.
- 🇨🇮 ça a gâtéWest Africa · About an event that was amazing: the party, the concert.
More from Belgium
- septante / nonanteseventy / ninety
- une foisjust, a sec (softener)
- savoir (= pouvoir)can, to be able to
- s'il vous plaîthere you go
- brolmess, junk
- kotstudent room
- guindaillestudent party, boozy night
- drachedownpour
Songs from Belgium
- Papaoutai · StromaeLevel A2
- Bruxelles je t'aime · AngèleLevel A2
- Alors on danse · StromaeLevel B1
- Santé · StromaeLevel B1
Solang turns songs into lessons: synced lyrics, translation and slang explained, line by line.
Learn it in the songs you love — free