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du coup

phrase, adverbColloquial

A French slang term. Browse all French slang.

What it means

  1. So; therefore; as a result. Nominally causal, in practice an all-purpose connector used several times a sentence by many speakers.

Examples with translations

  • Il pleuvait, du coup on est restés.

    It was raining, so we stayed.

  • Du coup, tu viens ou pas?

    So are you coming or not?

Where it comes from

Its explosive spread since the 2000s is one of the most complained-about changes in contemporary French. Language columnists have been objecting for two decades with no discernible effect.