The most common way to say "goodnight" in French is "bonne nuit", but there are several ways in which you can express this wish. Here are a few you might want to try.
Steps
Method 1 of 3: Part 1: Goodnight
Step 1. You can say goodnight using:
Bonne nuit! This phrase literally means "good night" and is used whenever someone withdraws from a group during an evening or when someone goes to sleep.
- Bonne means "good".
- Nuit means "night".
- Pronounce the phrase as "bon nuii".
Step 2. Say hello to Bonsoir in the evening! The translation is "good evening". Use it when you want to greet someone in the evening hours of the day.
- Bon means "good".
- And soir means "evening".
- Say the greeting by saying "bon suaar".
Method 2 of 3: Part 2: Announce that you are going to sleep
Step 1. To withdraw you can say:
Je vais dormir. This phrase essentially translates as "I'm going to sleep".
- Je means "I"
- Vais is the first person singular of the verb "aller", which translates as "to go".
- Dormir is the French verb for "to sleep".
- Pronounce the sentence as "je vé durmí".
Step 2. If you say Je vais me coucher. you are saying "I'm going to bed".
- Je means "I"
- Vais is the first person singular of the verb “aller”, which can be translated as “to go”.
- Coucher means "to go to bed".
- Pronounce the sentence saying "je vé meh Cuscé".
Step 3. Use a colloquial phrase, saying Je vais pieuter. In French this phrase is very colloquial and means "I'm going to sleep".
- Je means "I".
- Vais is the first person singular of the verb “aller”, which can be translated as “to go”.
- Pieuter is the slang word of the phrase and means "sleep".
- The sentence should be pronounced as je vé pieteh ".
Step 4. Another slang phrase, which you can use in an informal situation, is Je vais roupiller. Basically it means "I'm going to get some sleep".
- Je means "I".
- Vais is the first person singular of the verb “aller”, which can be translated as “to go”.
- Roupiller means "take a nap / take a nap".
- It is pronounced by saying "je vé rupiyé".
Method 3 of 3: Part 3: Other Ways to Say Goodnight
Step 1. A good way is Dormez bien ", which means" sleep well ".
- Dormez, means "sleep"
- Bien means "good".
- It is pronounced as "Doormeh byan".
Step 2. Fais de beaux rêves'
'Use this phrase if what you mean is "sweet dreams".
- Fais is the conjugation of the verb faire, (to do), which translates as "do".
- De means "of / of"
- Beaux translates as "beautiful".
- Rêves stands for "dreams".
- The phrase is pronounced as "fé de bo rèv".
Step 3. You can say "J'espère que vous dormez tranquille", which translates as "I hope you will sleep peacefully"
- J'espère stands for "I hope".
- Que translates as "that".
- Vous translates as "you", which corresponds to the Italian form of courtesy "lei" but often also to "you".
- Dormez ad infinir is dormir, which means "to sleep".
- Tranquille means "placid", "quiet".
- The whole sentence, which would literally translate as "I hope you will sleep / sleep peacefully", is pronounced: "je esper ke vú doormeh trankiil".
Step 4. You can say "Dormez comme un loir"
Use this phrase if you want to tell someone "Sleep like a log".
- Dormez ad infinito is dormir, which means "to sleep".
- Comme means "like".
- A loir is "a dormouse".
- The sentence is pronounced: doormeh com an luar ".
Step 5. Alternatively you can use "Dormez comme un bébé"
which means "sleep like a baby".
- Dormez ad infinito is dormir, which means "to sleep".
- Comme means "like"
- Un bébé translates as "a child".
- The phrase is pronounced doormeh com an bebé.
