All about the French sentence "Comme d'habitude"

Get prepared to discover everything you want to know about the basic French sentence "Comme d'habitude". To be more specific, it includes a full explanation of what it is and how to use it in a casual conversation with an audio example. And because we want to help you on your learning journey, we also added some super useful stuff like synonym, dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio and more!

English translation

Translation : As usual
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Pronunciation guide

Slow

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IPA : / kɔm dabityd /

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Comme d'habitude meaning

Definition

The literal meaning is:

Comme → As / Like
d'habitude → usual

The French expression "comme d'habitude" is used typically when talking about something that happens regularly or something that isn't surprising. It's translated as "as usual" in English and has a very similar usage.

How to use it

You can use it at the beginning or at the end of your sentence:

Comme d'habitude, je suis en retard. → As usual, I'm late.
Je suis en retard. Comme d'habitude → I'm late. As usual.

But you can also use it as an interjection during a conversation to show that you are not surprised, that it's usual:

Il est arrivé en retard. → He was late.
Comme d'habitude. → As usual.

And for all these cases, you can shorten it informally as "comme d'hab" to make it shorter and easier to use.

Synonyms

Comme d'hab → As usual (Informal)
Comme toujours → As always
À chaque fois c'est pareil → Every time it's the same
C'est toujours la même chose → It's always the same thing
Comme à l'accoutumée → As usual (Formal)

Example in a dialogue

Dialogue

J'ai un petit creux, et toi ?

I am a little hungry, and you?

Non j'ai trop mangé, mais j'ai soif

No, I ate too much, but I'm thirsty

Comme d'habitude...

As usual...