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In American English, words such as “like” and “literally” have become filler words over the last few decades, and their use as filler words is attached to certain demographics (for example, see this article on the history of the use of like as filler word — older speakers would typically not use "like" this way).
What are some similar filler words that are used by younger French speakers nowadays?
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Genre (~like)
T'sais (you know)
En fait (~actually)
J'veux dire (~ I mean)
Nan (~nah)
Quoi (~like, at the end of a sentence)
With some mais in-between to string them together... Which gives things such as:
T'sais mais genre en fait, il lui avait pas dit, quoi... (~you know but like actually, he didn't tell her, like)
Nan mais genre j'veux dire, truc de ouf quoi (~No but like I mean, crazy, like)
Du coup (~so/then depending if it is at the begining or the end of the sentence respectively)
t'inquiètes (don't worry or no worries)
This is usually the moment when I start to worry.
