French Tongue Twisters virelangues

I am what I am/pursue and if I am what I am/pursue, what am I?

Health isn't (written) without t, illness is (written) without t.

The socks of the archduchess are they dry? Extra dry!

The Arab Ali died in bed. Morality: Maure Ali, you're dead in bed.

Where does the magpie build its nest? The magpie nests high. Where does the goose build its nest? The goose nests low. Where does the owl build its nest? The owl nests neither high nor low.

My father is mayor my brother is masseuse.

Mein Vater ist Bürgermeister mein Bruder ist Masseur.

These cherries are so sour that one can't believe they are cherries.

Diese Kirschen sind so sauer daß man nicht weis, ob es welche sind.

Big fat and long barley seed, you're such a big, fat and long barley seed. When will you un-big-fat-and-long-barley-seed yourself? I shall un-big-fat-and-long-barley-seed myself when all big fat and long barley seeds have un-big-fat-and-long-barley-seeded.

An officer dragon degrades a dragon ranked officer.

Are your lettuces sprouting? If your lettuces are sprouting, my turnips will sprout.

Does the wheat mill itself? Does the coat sew itself? The wheat mills itself! The coat sews itself!

Poor little fisher, be patient if you want to fish many little fish.

In the gendarmerie (police station) when a policeman laughs all the policemen laugh in the gendarmerie.

Why should the allies not break up their solidarity.

Rat saw rice, Rat put paw on the brim, rat put paw on the rice, rice burnt paw of rat.

This excessive tax has been specially set on AIX by the tax-office.

Five dogs chase six cats.

Once upon a time, there was a man of faith who was selling liver in the town of Foix. He said, my faith (my God) it is the last time I am selling liver in the town of Foix.

General Joffrin says to us: At Toul, I lost my dentures. In general, I offer a tool to all the fathers of the whole world.

Raw plum, cooked plum, …

Three little trouts cooked, three little trouts raw

You persist in trying everything, you wear and work yourself out to death with such persistance.

A pastry chef who made pastries at the house of a tapestry maker who papered, said one day to the tapestry maker who papered: is it better to make pastries at a tapestry maker's who papers or to paper at a pastry chef's who makes pastries.

She is gone with your uncle, your Taine (a French writer) and your tuna fish.

Marcel killed a pig. He didn't salt it, worms got at it, the pig (porc) spoiled.

There are two types of crazy people: round ones and square ones. The Fourons are completely crazy, and the square crazy people are a case for Happart.

Aunt, your tea has cured your cough, said the tortoise to the tattoo. But at all, said the tattoo, I cough so much that you can hear me from Tahiti to Timbuktu.

The pepper gives the poor octopus fever.

Among the people of Papua (New Guinea) there are some that have lice and others who have no lice... But among the Papuans there are Papuan fathers and Papuan non-fathers... So among the Papuans there are Papuans who are fathers with lice and there are Papuans who are fathers without lice and there are Papuans who are not fathers with lice and there are Papuans who are not fathers without lice... But among the lice there are father lice and non-father lice... So among the Papuans there are father Papuans with father lice and father Papuans with non-father lice and non-father Papuan with father lice and non-father Papuans with non-father lice.

These six sausages are so dry that on doesn't if they are it.

It was the Nevada escapee who was hurtling down the Nevada Valley in the Valley, flowing down to escape, on a stolen stolen bicycle, which he stole from a villa, and the valet who was robbed The Nevada escaped down the valleys of the Nevada Valley, tumbling down to escape an ugly stolen bicycle.

I say that you told Didi what I said Thursday.

Your Katie has left you. You have been deceived, what are you waiting for? You have but to get drunk and leave your appartment. Your Katie has left you. Your tactics were rubbish. Your Katie has left you. …

A quite big fat mamma with great nice big fat white arms.

What a shame to try to touch, to suck the tits of Aunty when Uncle is not there …

Am I at dear Serge's house?

If these 606 leeches are on his/her breast without sucking his/her blood, these 606 leeches are not successful.

This austere green worm knows how to empty his green glasses.

Austrians are other dogs! Nichts für ungut!

If my aunt feels your aunt, your aunt will be felt.

Waht has the donkey drunkat the pier? At the pier, the donkey drunk water.

Three turtles are trottind down a narrow sidewalk.

The green worms raised the green glass towards the green worm.

When a stringing stringer (someone who makes strings) must tune a string, He tunes six cordons (little strings) to tune the string, But if one of the cordons of the string come unstrung, The unstrung cordon make the string unstrung, The string that the stringing stringer had bad tuned.

If six hundred saws saw six hundred sausages, six hundred six saws will saw six hundred six [large] sausages

His cat sings his song.

Have you been to Tahiti?

A generous breakfast regenerates degenerate generals.

Sixteen hyacinths are drying in sixteen dry sachets.

The tax-office sets each excessive fixed tax exclusively on luxury and on the acquirement.

The bee is gliding (away).

The sad adventure of Coco the cocoa grinder: Coco, the cocoa grinder, was courting Kiki the cocotte. Kiki the cocotte wanted a khaki jacket with a collar of karakul; but Coc, the cocoa grinder, could only offer Kiki a khaki jacket without a collar of karakul. The day when Coco, the cocoa grinder, saw Kiki the cocotte showing off a khaki jacket with a collar of karakul he realized that he had been cuckold.

Zazie is chatting with her cousin while sewing.

A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his hunting dog.

One taxi is attacking six taxis.

Did you try, Tantalus, to soak your tongue?

Five large rats gnawed in the large fatty lard.

Fish without a drink is poison.

Cool shoes!

Tetramethyldiparadiaminobenzophenol, from now on you will value it at 200 francs the kilogram, because Mr. Millerand wants that to be the lot of all black antraquinon (dyes).

If that happens thus, it is of no concern

Gal, lover of the queen, went, magnanimous turn, from the arena to the Magen tower in Nimes.

Tati, has your tea cured your cough?

The Cat saw the roast. The roast tempted the cat. The cat put a paw on the roast. The roast burned the paw of the cat. The cat left the roast.

Have you seen the tulle tutu of Lili from Honolulu?

Your aunt is waiting for you. I have so many aunts. Which aunt is waiting for me? Your aunt Antoinette is waiting for you.

Pope Pius's dad's pipe stinks.

In your tent your aunt is witing for you.

These Basques pass each other this helmet and this mask until this mask and this helmet break.

The Valachian's horse drank the lake's water and the lake's water washed the Valachian's horse.

Six dry sausages

Lulu read the letter read to Lili, and Lola went to Lille where Lala ties the lilac.

White breads, painted benches, full baths.

In wall decayed, a hole was made. A rat inside a cat espied. The rat then fled, the cat then sped, the rat was caught.

The wheel rolls on the road; the road stays under the wheel.

I want and I demand exquisite excuses.

Heaven, if this is known these cares are without success.

The assassin on her breast Sucked her blood without a rest.

Uncle, did your tea get rid of your cough?

Little pot of butter, when will you unlittlepotofbutterize yourself? I will unlittlepotofbutterize myself when you unlittlepotofbutterize yourself.

I want and I demand; I demand and I want.

An old sober hunter full of health, but suffering from blindness, wearing dirty shoes, without cigar, was in the necessity of hunting alone on these fields located in Sicily a sinister wild cat. He hissed his dogs, Auburn, Satin, Chauvin and followed his path. On his way, six chaste Sicilian cherubs, without worries, without shoes, whispered this: Hi, Sire hunter, wise and full citizen, hungry eyes, warm blood, be lucky! Know this day serene, without sorrow ....

Dido dined, it is said, from the back of a turkey, gift of a gift from the Doubs, to whom Didon said: Give, therefore, gift, from the back of a turkey.

Three big fat rats in three big round holes gnaw three big round croutons.

I saw six silly people sucking six hundred six sausages, six in sauce and six hundred without sauce.

The big bell is ringing.

Twelve sweet showers

If six hundred serrated knives cut six hundred six sausages in six, the kitchen is dirty.

The rolling stone gathers no moss.

If your uncle shaves/cuts the hair your uncle, your uncle will be shaved/cut by your uncle

Know, dear Sasha, that Natasha doesn't fasten her cat!

Paper, basket, piano.

Five Capuchin fathers, healthy in their bodies and sane, their bodies girded with girdles, carried on their breast the undersign of the Capuchin saints.

Sixteen chairs are drying.

Rosalie's red dress is ravishing.

If these 606 leeches don't suck one's blood, these 606 leeches are unsuccessful.

Le python de la pythonisse a sucé du bois de réglisse. Il est lisse comme un trombone à coulisse lisse et le python de la pythonisse de tristesse se rapetisse; il n'est plus en Suisse qu'un piteux piton d'alpiniste chez un droguiste.

If six saws saw six cypreses, six hundred six saws saw six hundred six cypreses.

Since I went out without an umbrella, it would have been better if it had rained earlier.

My mother has put my hand in my sleeve.

This hunter knows how to hunt without his dog, says the wise hunting ward. Hunter know how to hunt without dog!

Make Fabien cunning and guilty at the wrong and fantastic jokes.

Fresh fruit, fried fruit, cooked fruit, raw fruit.

The mule drank all that it could.

Piano, basket, basket, piano.

Sell old and old jackets, jackets and tunics.

Madame Coutufon said to Madame Foncoutu: - Hello, Mrs. Foncoutu! Is there a lot of Foncoutu in Coutufon? - There is as much Foncutu at Coutufon as there are Coutufons at Foncoutu.

Flat pocket flat pocket.

The sole dirtied its bed but the sea washed the bed that the sole has dirtied, and the sole is browning (frying) in the casserole.

Just judge, judge young and jealous Gilles.

Nino has neither tablecloth nor old clothes and does not clean nylon or linon.

Let's move your box, because your box is bothering us.

Eight old ants ate pineapples in the evening.

Jesus stays at Zacchaeus's house, at Zacchaeus's house stays Jesus.

Zaza lisps, Zizi lisps.

A hunter who knows how to hunt went out without his hunting dog.

What a riot it is to see a shrimp smashed on the tie of a dead man in a crevasse.

A black beast bathes in a black bathtub.

A hunter who was hunting set his socks to dry on a dry stump.

A full plate of piled wheat.

An angel that dreamed of changing its face suddenly found herself so changed that never again an angel dreamt of changing.

The hunter, knowing how to hunt without his dog, will hunt alone.

Lily reads the book in bed.

What did the donkey drink at the lake? The donkey drank water at the lake.

Six young men perched on six chairs were whispering this: wise huntsman, bald-headed, hot-blooded, bleary-eyed, you must learn to hunt the bald cat which hides under the rare stump of dried sage.

Cream cross, cream cross, cream cross …

It is too late for tram 33.

Es ist zu spät für die Straßenbahn Nr. 33.

Three stubborn tortoises scamper on scooters.

If it is round it is not square.

Your cab's rate is quite high, cabbie! What is your high-rated cab waiting for? My high-rated cab is waiting on the hill for chicks to accost it. So there!

Are the archduchess' shirts dry or super dry?

The czech kitch shocks, unless it's chic.

I'm looking for Serge.

Let's drink my wand is lost, but the handle, but the handle ... Let's drink my knife is lost, but the handle is back!)

Tata the apple tarte tempts Tonton; Tonton has touched the apple tart, Tata.

Sieur, the censor, unceasingly seated, sits alone without worry on his bucket.

Toto, you're wrong, you're lying down and you're killing yourself while you're lying around; Believe me, Toto, you're going and I'm saying you're wrong.

Paul peels off the pole in his pile of sweaters and pale polos. No more calls from the hen to the Opel than opal in the shovel to Paul.

The magpie nests high. The goose nests low. The owl nests neither high nor low.

Ah! why Pepita without respite spies me, in the well, Pepita, why are you carpeting? You spate me without mercy, it's pitiful to spy on me, To spy on me Pepita can not do without you?

The cricri of the creek screams his cry raw and critical because he fears that the crook does not crunch and crack. But a swordfish dedicates the dudule to a donation so given given made his hobby that he kept.

A pineapple has neither a nest nor a cigar.

I am an original who will never de-originalise.

When you kill yourself, you kill yourself

The goose nests low. The magpie nests high. Where is the owl's nest? The owl nests neither high nor low.

The quail broods under the bridge, under the bridge the quail broods.

Six casks, six cases: the hand between cases, the finger in the cask's mouth. Six casks, six cases: the finger in the cask's mouth, the hand between cases.

County, County, County, …

Oh! The dirt! Oh! The dirt! Oh! The dirt! …

If the cathedral would un-cathedralize how would we re-cathedralize it?

A fisher fishes beneath a peach-tree, the peach-tree hinders the fisher from fishing, the fisher felled the peach-tree, the peach-tree no longer hinders the fisher from fishing.

Good day madam sausage-seller, how much are those six sausages? I sell them for six sous (old French monetary unit), six sous here, six sous there, six sous the sausages there.

Natasha, didn't fasten her cat Pasha who escaped. This angere Sasha who chased Natasha.

Those cypreses are so far (away) that one doesn't know if they are there!

Donkey and worm and mole, do they have bones? Donkey has bones, worm doesn't, mole has.

Below the purlin (part of the roof) the (female) duck is laying eggs, below the brood the (male) duck is hatching.

Good day Madame Sans-Souci. How much are the marigolds here? Six sous, the marigolds here. Six sous?! That's too expensive Madame Sans-Souci.

If these six saws here saw this cypres here that well, these six saws here will saw these six hundred cypreses.

Rat saw roats. Roast tempted rat. Rat put a paw on the roast. The roast burned the paw of the rat. The rat pulled back its paw and left the roast.

If your kisser loves my kisser like my kisser loves your kisser, let me have the biggest kiss of the Province of Quebec!

I saw six hundred Swiss, sucking six hundred sausages, six with sauce and six hundred without sauce

Kiki was a casserole, and koko cocoa crusher. Kiki the cocotte liked koko the cocoa crusher a lot. But a prancing and cacochymous marquis, conquered by the naughty guts of kiki the casserole, offered to the kiki the casserole a pretty khaki camisole with collar of caracul. When koko the cocoa crusher learned that kiki the casserole had received the marquis prancing prank and cacochyme a coquettish camisole neck collar, koko the cocoa crusher concluded: I closed my cackling, I'm cuckold!

Lath removed the hole in the roof. Lath puted back, no more holes.

Ten glasses six cups, cooked milk pot on the ground

The dandling dandling dodeline of the head in front of plump turkey.

The fortifications build around Paris make the Parisians nervous

The bright green was spinning fast on a green wire. The green wire saw the ugly green earth.

I'm wetting my elbows, my elbows are getting wet, am I wetting my elbows? I'm wetting my elbows, my elbows are getting wet, would you be able to say it?

Full glass, I drink you. Empty glass, I feel sorry for you.

He had been attentive to the pathetic attempt of murder on the aunt of the Hottentots’ potentate.

Assassination of a Hottentot potentate’s aunt.

As time passed, the wall decayed, a hole appeared in which a rat settled; A cat saw it, the rat fled, the cat followed, the rat was caught.

What is Lili reading under this lilac? Lili is reading the Iliad.

Are these it, says Samson? These are it, says Dalida.

Graffiti graffe une graffe grâce à un aggraffeur.

A fat boar sleeps by the beautiful port of Bordeaux.

Good day Ms. Sans-Soucis! How much are these saussages? These saussages are six hundred and six sous (old French monetary unit). If these saussages are six hundred and six sous, these saussages are six hundred and six sous too expensive!

The pervert father of Pierre father looses his green coat.

Three Swiss witches watch three Swiss "Swatch" watches. Which Swiss witch watches which Swiss "Swatch" watch?

Five hundred saints without blood are healthy without care

Jesus lies and thinks of Zacchaeus.

Bourvil and de Funès are trying to escape the German soldiers during WWII, they find gliders in a hangar and Bourvil says what could be translated as: "There is no more propeller, alas! We've hit another snag.

Jesus was eating cabbages at Zacchaeus' house. You should know that it was at Zacchaeus' house that Jesus was eating cabbages.

I am an original who will never de-originalise.

I was looking to my zouaves hunting the zebra and the zebu with the javelin you can see at the side of the picture. Zealot of Zarathoustra, I lived there far from the zoiles, far from the discords, from the zeros, the zincs and the lisping zoographs, the wrist over the zygomatic, lost in the contemplation of the zenith or of the zodiac, like an innocent zoophyte. Like this until the supreme zigzag and until the definitive blast.

Thirty three very large grey stripped toad in thirty three very large very cavernous holes.

cocard = eye (popular form), corcardeau = Giroflée (a kind of plant), Cocardes de coquilles = crowned with shells, coquets= pleasant, attractive

squamate = a kind of reptile; nanstausaure, asphodèle, astragale = kinds of plants; encaque = to pile in a box, manne = manna, biblical food

A crafty/sly redheaded Russian, mounted on an old horse (nag), a rose in his hand.

Hole of the neck, hole of the heart, hole of the neck of the driver

Are your lettuces sprouting below this tree? If your lettuces are sprouting, your turnips will sprout.

When Thomas' horse fell, How didn't Thomas fall? Has Thomas fallen, Or didn't he fall? Does he fall down, Or he suffer such gambols?

Caesar likes cream and rum cookies

Who ate the rum omelet? Cosaks, equal in beauty, smoking like Swiss people and strong at their post.

The long line run alongside the rented building.

All the puppies in Tutus cough, all.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Twenty green worms drinking wine upside-down from a glass made of glass during winter.

Yves and Hugues open eight oysters with an oyster-opener.

The merchant threatening in front of the plan became a glass of wine in the hand of a soothsayer.

The wall walling Paris keeps Paris murmuring (complaining).

Napoleon, lost Sedan, lost his teeth

A hunter who knows how to hunt without his dog was hunting

What are you looking for in that oak tree, if it's not a chestnut?

I have a very difficult task, because I have to sew a shirt without thread or needle

Each cat chooses its own hat

If seven scoundrels are six times more foolish than seven fools, how many fools are six times more foolish than seven scoundrels?

A thief was willingly stealing old cows

Water is blue, rain is blue, ice is blue, but the blue sock is not blue

The wolf squints when it crosses a Louvain wolf

A dog that sings is not a dog that sings well

If you know how to sing, sing; if you know how to dance, dance; if you know how to do both, do both"

A proud farmer was making his irons firm

A white cat on a white rug is very difficult to see

Cats under an umbrella, it looks like cats perched on an umbrella