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Are you ready to find out everything you want to know about the basic phrase “Merci beaucoup”?
Including a detailed explanation of what it is and how to use it in a normal conversation with an audio example. And that’s not all, we also sprinkled useful things like dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio, synonym and more!
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Slow pronunciation
Normal pronunciation
The literal meaning is:
We will dedicate this article to “Merci beaucoup” and the other ways to express powerful gratitude when a simple “Merci” (Thanks) is not enough.
Typically, when you received a huge gift or someone did something amazing for you. So much that a simple “Thank you” would sound almost insulting!
We will see in another article a complete guide of the more classic ways to say “thank you” in French don’t worry!
Imagine someone offers you an amazing gift and your heart is full of gratitude, then instead of a classic “Merci.” you can use “Merci beaucoup !” (Thanks a lot!) or any other variations you will find in the next section.
All of them are fine with formal contexts, so you can use them in a professional environment too.
Powerful gratitude:
Normal gratitude:
Dialogue audio
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