Sensation ou ambiance agréable et positive.
A pleasant, positive feeling or atmosphere.
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Ce café dégage vraiment de bonnes ondes. — This cafe has really good vibes.
La nouvelle équipe dégage vraiment de bonnes ondes. — The new team gives off really good vibes.
Que de bonnes ondes ce soir, s'il vous plaît ! — Only good vibes tonight, please!
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Download the app for free French vocabulary testBonnes ondes is the older French rendering — literally good waves, from the same era of radio metaphors that gave English vibes. It reads as slightly dated now, in the way good vibrations does in English.
What a French speaker says today is bonne ambiance for a place or an evening, or simply the borrowed bonnes vibes among younger speakers. Ondes stays alive mostly in the negative: mauvaises ondes, bad vibes, is still perfectly current.
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