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An English/French → Joual Converter

An interactive tool to turn Standard French into Québec Joual w/ optional critter flavour.

🐦‍⬛ Jumping Joual!

An English/French → Joual Converter · En français

🐾 Critter-ize: Il est fâché. → Y'a l'poil croche

Joual is the informal, everyday speech of Québec – think casual contractions, local idioms, and softened sacres.
Type your formal French directly into the left box, or translate first from English.
Extra-Cute adds extra contractions. Disabled when unapplicable.
Critter-ize 🐾 adds critter-flavour substitutions. Disabled when unapplicable.
Hover or click any highlighted word to see glosses and select alternatives.

Extra-Cute Critter-ize 🐾 Strip accents Native Expressions ✨ Beta

English → French (optional translate before Joual)

Or use: DeepL Linguee

Formal French (input)

Joual (output)joual cute expr critter

See Joual output appear here automatically

Example:
Y'a pas un chat dans la cabane.

Joual is a Québec French sociolect noted for contractions, anglicisms, softened sacres, and a distinctive phonetic flavour. This translator covers:

Common contractions (je → j', tu → t', il → y, etc.) and Québec idioms
🐾 Critter-ize: critter-themed vocabulary for roleplay (grackles, rats, ducks, cheese, worms, etc.) with animal-themed alternatives to common words
Engine uses a longest-match-first algorithm with tokenization to avoid cascading replacements
Mild sacres included are softened variants (tabarnouche, câline, simonac)
Dictionary based on common Québec French, Montréal-era joual, and critter/RP expressions
English-to-French translation provided by DeepL API Free

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