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The French phrase "Tout à coup" explained

Get prepared to find out everything you have to know about the basic French sentence "Tout à coup". Including a detailed definition of what it is and how you can use it in a conversation with an audio example. Plus, we also added some useful stuff like dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio and more!

English translation

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  Translation : All of a sudden

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  Register : Neutral - Basic

Audio pronunciation

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  IPA : / tut‿ a ku /

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Example in a dialogue with audio

Dialogue

Tout à coup, le camion est passé devant moi !

All of a sudden, the truck passed in front of me!

Vraiment ?

Really?

Oui, tellement vite que je ne l'ai pas vu venir

Yes, so fast that I didn't see it coming