souper
🇨🇦 French slang from Québec
What does “souper” mean?
dinner
Example
“Qu'est-ce qu'on mange pour souper ?”
What are we having for dinner?
Good to know
In Québec: déjeuner = breakfast, dîner = lunch, souper = dinner.
Who you can say it to
Fine with anyone
🌮 Food
The textbook way to say it: le dîner
Heard in a conversation
Moving Day, July 1st
Sophie Ma machine à pâtes. Niaise pas avec ça, j'en ai besoin !
My pasta maker. Don't mess around with that, I need it!
Jérémie Bon, tout est dans le pick-up. On va souper au casse-croûte après ? Je meurs de faim.
OK, everything's in the pickup. Shall we have dinner at the snack bar after? I'm starving.
Sophie Tiguidou ! Pis merci, sans toi j'aurais capoté ben raide.
Perfect! And thanks, without you I'd have freaked out big time.
🍽️ How other countries say “dinner (the evening meal)”
- 🇫🇷 dînerFrance · In France 'déjeuner' is lunch.
- 🇧🇪 souperBelgium · Same as Québec: déjeuner, dîner, souper.
More from Québec
- dépanneurcorner store
- une poutinefries, cheese curds and gravy
- le déjeunerbreakfast
- des patatesfries; potatoes
- une brouea beer
- la cabane à sucresugar shack (maple-syrup feast in spring)
- des steaméssteamed hot dogs
- charcar
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