vous voulez rire
French, interjection/vu vu.le ʁiʁ/
vous voulez rire is spelled V-O-U-S-V-O-U-L-E-Z-R-I-R-E (14 letters). Vous voulez rire is a French interjection meaning “you gotta be joking! you must be kidding!” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does vous voulez rire mean in English?
interjection
- 1
informalyou gotta be joking! you must be kidding!
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. Expression servant à discréditer une proposition qui vient d'être faite.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of vous voulez rire
- ! canonical
- tu veux rire alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vous voulez rire?
- /vu vu.le ʁiʁ/
- \vu vu.le ʁiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.