une fois
🇧🇪 French slang from Belgium
What does “une fois” mean?
just, a sec (softener)
Example
“Viens une fois ici !”
Come here a sec!
Good to know
Literally 'once'. Iconic Belgian filler, often exaggerated in jokes about Belgians.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
☕ Everyday
The textbook way to say it: un instant
Heard in a conversation
Haggling at the Brussels flea market
Maxime Regarde cette vieille lampe ! Le vendeur en veut septante euros.
Look at this old lamp! The seller wants seventy euros for it.
Laura Septante ? Pour ce brol ? Demande-lui une fois s'il fait trente.
Seventy? For that junk? Just ask him if he'll do thirty.
Maxime Il dit cinquante, pas moins. C'est un vrai dikkenek, celui-là.
He says fifty, no less. He's a real show-off, that one.
More from Belgium
- septante / nonanteseventy / ninety
- savoir (= pouvoir)can, to be able to
- s'il vous plaîthere you go
- brolmess, junk
- kotstudent room
- drachedownpour
- non, peut-êtreyes, of course!
- GSMmobile phone
Songs from Belgium
- Papaoutai · StromaeLevel A2
- Bruxelles je t'aime · AngèleLevel A2
- Alors on danse · StromaeLevel B1
- Santé · StromaeLevel B1
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