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Don’t sleep on these French sleep expressions.<\/p>\n
After une longue journ\u00e9<\/em>e de travail<\/strong> <\/em>(a long day of work),\u00a0c’est normal d’avoir <\/strong><\/em>sommeil<\/em><\/strong> (it’s normal to feel sleepy<\/strong>), but if you can’t fall asleep, then you probably suffer from\u00a0une insomnie<\/strong> <\/em>(insomnia.)<\/p>\n If you go to bed early, then you are a couche-t\u00f4t <\/em>(early sleeper); if not, then you’re a couche-tard <\/em>(late sleeper)!<\/p>\n To go to bed in French is called aller au lit<\/strong><\/em>. You can also say: “Je vais dormir” <\/strong><\/em>(“I’m going to sleep”) or “Je vais me coucher<\/strong>.<\/em>” <\/strong>In French Slang (l’argot<\/strong><\/a><\/em>), you can hear some people use the word “roupiller<\/strong><\/em>” (“to snooze”), “pieuter<\/em><\/strong>“, or the expression “aller au pieu<\/strong><\/em>” (“pieu<\/em>” being a slang word for bed.)<\/p>\n Before you do so, it would be nice to wish everyone une bonne nuit <\/em><\/strong>(a good night) and tell them “dormez bien<\/em><\/strong>” (“sleep tight”), or\u00a0“faites de beaux r\u00ea<\/em><\/strong>ves” <\/strong><\/em>(“Sweet dreams”)… Of course, if you watched a scary movie in that evening, chances are, you will instead end up having\u00a0un cauchemar<\/strong> <\/em>(a nightmare)!<\/p>\n And if -like we said earlier- you have une insomnie<\/em>, then you are an\u00a0insomniaque<\/strong><\/em>. The next day, you would complain: “J’ai pass\u00e9 une nuit blanche” <\/em>(literally “I spent a white night”), “<\/em>Je n’ai pas pu fermer l’\u0153il de la nuit<\/em><\/strong>” (literally “I couldn’t close [my] eye the whole night.”)<\/p>\n