genre
adverb, nounInformal
A French slang term. Browse all French slang.
What it means
Like. A quotative and approximator, precisely parallel to English 'like': il a fait genre 'je sais pas'.
Faire genre: to put on an act, to pretend.
Literally: Kind, type.
Examples with translations
Il m'a dit, genre, qu'il avait oublié.
He told me, like, that he'd forgotten.
Arrête de faire genre.
Stop putting it on.