Level A2 (Upper beginner)
🎧 Audio by Marie Assel Cambier — native speaker & pro voice artist from France
Today’s French Word of the Day is tellement. In this lesson you learn its:
✅ Meaning
✅ Pronunciation
✅ Example sentences
✅ Related Words & Expressions
📘 Meaning
Tellement is a versatile adverb meaning so, so much, or so many. It’s used to intensify verbs, adjectives, or nouns—for example, Il est tellement intelligent (He’s so intelligent) or tellement de travail (so much work).
🎧 Pronunciation of tellement
IPA: /tɛl.mɑ̃/ — listen and repeat to practice.
📝 4 French and English Examples
Tellement (so, so much)
Elle est tellement gentille avec tout le monde.
She is so kind to everyone.
Nous avons tellement ri pendant le film !
We laughed so much during the movie!
Il y avait tellement de bruit qu’on n’entendait rien.
There was so much noise that we couldn’t hear anything.
Elle est tellement fatiguée qu’elle va se coucher de bonne heure.
She’s so tired that she’s going to bed early.
🔗 Related words & expressions
🔹 Synonyms (similar meaning)
- si – so (used before adjectives/adverbs)
→ Il est si gentil. = He is so kind. - tant – so much / so many
→ Il y a tant à dire. = There’s so much to say. - beaucoup – a lot / very much
→ Ils travaillent beaucoup. = They work a lot.
🔹 Common structures with “tellement”
- tellement que – so [adj/adv] that…
→Il est tellement fatigué qu’il arrête de travailler. = He is so tired that he stops working. - tellement de + noun – so much/many [noun]
→ Tellement de monde ! = So many people!
🔹 Informal / Spoken French
- grave (slang intensifier, similar to so)
→ Il est grave sympa. = He’s super nice! - trop (informal “so” or “too”)
→ Trop cool ! = So cool!
🚀 Keep Learning French Vocabulary!
Now that you’ve mastered tellement, check out this lesson on trop — it usually means “too much” or “too many,” but in casual French, it can also mean “so.”
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