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Get prepared to find out everything you need to know about the basic French sentence “Pas mal”.
This include a detailed guide of what it is and how you can use it in a normal conversation with an audio example. And because learning a new language is important, we also added some useful things like dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio, synonym and more!
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Slow pronunciation
Normal pronunciation
It literally means:
“Pas mal” is the French way to say “Not bad“, typically after someone ask you ”Ça va ?” (How are you?). But it can be used in many other cases and can also mean “Nice job / Way to go” or even “Quite a bit” depending on the context.
The typical usage is to express “Not bad“:
But it can also mean “Way to go” or “Nice job“:
Finally, it can be used as an adverb of quantity, similar to “quite a lot“, “quite a bit” or “quite a few“:
Dialogue audio
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