In today’s lesson we’ll focus on a very common and useful expression: À mon avis, which means “in my opinion”. Other loose translations include “if you ask me” and “I think”. We also learn several other ways to say “in my opinion”. Keep reading!
À mon avis
In my opinion
Word origin
The French expression à mon avis (in my opinion) is comprised of the preposition à (to or at), mon (my) and avis. The modern French word avis translates to “opinion”, “view” and “point of view” and comes from the Latin word vīsum (vision, visual and mental image).
Example sentences
As mentioned, à mon avis is the expression for “in my opinion”. In French, the verb passer is used to express physically passing by a place and spending time.
À mon avis, les jeunes d’aujourd’hui passent trop de temps sur les réseaux sociaux.
In my opinion, the young people today spend too much time on social networks.
In French, the expression changer d’avis means “to change your mind”. The feminine noun réponse is related to the verb répondre and means reply, answer and respond.
Donnez-moi une réponse avant que je change d’avis !
Give me your answer before I change my mind!
There are two other expressions for “in my opinion” which we thought we’d include in today’s lesson: selon moi and d’après moi. Both words selon and d’après mean “according to”. This lesson on our site explores example sentences using les Jeux olympiques (the Olympic Games).
Selon moi, les Jeux olympiques ne sont pas bien organisés.
In my opinion, the Olympic Games are not well organized.
For this final example sentence, the expression il faut can translate to “you have to” or “it’s necessary”.
D’après moi, il faut voyager en France pour bien apprendre le français.
In my opinion, you have to travel to France to learn French well.
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