If you’re a chocolate lover then you’re in for a real treat! In today’s lesson we’ll look at how to say and pronounce chocolate in French: le chocolat. We’ll also learn some useful vocabulary words realted to chocolate. Keep reading!

le chocolat

chocolate

How to say chocolate in French: – le chocolat

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Word origin

The English word chocolate and the French word chocolat come from the Nahuatl (native Mexican langauge) word chocolatl.

Pronunciation and gender

Chocolate in French is a masculin noun: le chocolat. The pronunciation is sho-ko-lah or [ʃɔkɔla]. In accordance with the French reading rules, the ch sounds like the English -sh and the final -t is silent.

Example sentences

For this first example, we could have also said “Est-ce que vous préférez” (do you prefer). Est-ce que means do, does, is and are for yes-no questions.

Préférez-vous le chocolat au lait, le chocolat noir ou le chocolat blanc?

Do you prefer milk chocolate, dark chocolate or white chocolate?

Notice in this next sentence that the adjectives for nationalties are written in the undercase. This is not a mistake. Adjectives for countries are not capitalized. For example, je suis français (I am French).

Le chocolat suisse est très bon mais je préfère le chocolat belge.

Swiss chocolate is very good but I prefer Belgian chocolate.

These next to example sentences uses the verb faire which means to make and to do.

Marie fait un gâteau au chocolat pour les enfants.

Marie is making a chocolate cake for the children.

Corinne et Véronique font de la mousse au chocolat pour toute la famille.

Corinne and Véronique are making chocolate mousse for the entire family.

J’adore boire le chocolat chaud en hiver.

I love drinking hot chocolate during the winter.

More chocolate vocabulary

Here are a few more words which I thought would be helpful for this lesson!

la barre de chocolat chocolate bar
le carré de chocolat piece of chocolate
la tablette de chocolat chocolate bar (also means six-pack abs!)
la glace au chocolat chocolate ice cream
le chocolat amer unsweetened chocolate
le pain au chocolat chocolate croissant
le chocolatier, la chocolatière chocolate maker

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David Issokson is a lifelong language learner and speaks over seven languages. Of all the languages he speaks, he's the most passionate about French! David has helped hundreds of students to improve their French in his private lessons. When not teaching or writing his French Word of the Day lessons, David enjoys his time skiing, hiking and mountain biking in Victor, Idaho.

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