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Le boulot (pronounced bulo) is an essential slang word meaning work or job. It is synonymous for le travail (work, job) but much less formal. Tu aimes ton boulot (do you like your job?).
le boulot
work, job
Example sentences
This first sentence is in the passé composé, a commonly used French past tense.
Jonathan a enfin trouvé un nouveau boulot !
Jonathan finally found a new job!
“Ça va ?“ is a greeting and can translate to “How’s it going?”. For this sentence, the real underlying meaning of “ça va ?” is “How’s the job going?”.
Ça va ? Tu aimes ton boulot ? Ce n’est pas trop difficile ?
How’s it going? Do you like your job? It’s not too hard?
For this sentence, the meaning of soûler is to get drunk. However, other meanings are to exasperate, bother and piss off.
Franchement, ce boulot me soûle!
Honestly, this job pisses me off!
Related terms
- Sale boulot dirty work
- Au boutlot ! Let’s get to work!
- Petit boulot odd job
- Trouver du boulot to find a job
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