French Tongue-Twisters

 

• NEW! Saucisses sèches sachant sécher sans s‘assécher
  A sausage knowing how to dry must know how to dry without drying out! (Thank you Alpha Magassouba and Ghislaine Martel)

• Si six scies scient six cyprès ci-près, six cents scies scient six cents cyprès ci-près.
  If six saws saw six cypresses close to here, six hundred saws saw six hundred cypresses close to here. (Thank you Otto Frst)

• Tonton, ton thé t'a-t-il ôté ta toux?
  Tonton, did your tea take away your cough? (Thank you Otto Frst)

• Trois petites truites cuites, trois petites truites crues.
  Three little cooked trout, three little raw trout.

• La roue sur la rue roule ; la rue sous la roue reste.
  The wheel on the road rolls; the road under the wheel stays.

• Un chasseur sachant chasser doit savoir chasser sans son chien de chasse.
  A hunter who knows how to hunt has to know how to hunt without his hunting dog.

• La pipe au papa du Pape Pie pue (Prévert).
  Pope Pius' dad's pipe stinks.

• Si ces saucissons sont bons, ces saucissons-ci sont aussi bons.
  If those sausages are good, these sausages here are also good.

• Panier piano
  Basket piano

• Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches ou archi sèches ?
  Are the archduchess's socks dry or very dry?

• Si mon tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondu.
  If my uncle shaves your uncle, your uncle will be shaved.

• Je veux et j'exige du jasmin et des jonquilles.
  I want and demand jasmin and daffodils.

• Natacha n'attacha pas son chat qui s'échappa,
  Natacha did not tie up her cat, who escaped

• Un dragon gradé dégrade un dragon gradé.
  A commissioned dragoon decommissions a commissioned dragoon.

• Je suis un original qui ne se désoriginalisera jamais.
  I am an original who will never de-originalise.

• Fruits cuits, fruits crus (repeated).
  Cooked fruits, raw fruits.

• Si six scies scient six cyprès, six cents scies scient six cents cyprès.
  If six saws saw six cypresses, six hundred saws saw six hundred cypresses.

• Napoleon, céda Sedan, céda ses dents.
  Napoleon, lost Sedan, lost his teeth

• Poisson sans boisson est poison.
  Fish without drink is poison.

• Didon dîna, dit-on, du dos d'un dodu dindon.
  Dido ate, it is said, from the back of a fat turkey

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