What Does This Mean?

être refait

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: French Internet CultureCLUSTER: french_youth_slang

French colloquial phrase with two opposite readings. In the older sense it means to be cheated, tricked or beaten; in the familiar sense recorded by Wiktionnaire, « refait » can mean happy or satisfied, and online it is used to say someone is delighted or thrilled. Context and tone decide which one is meant.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Il a eu sa place pour le concert, il est refait."

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionnaire lists « refait » as an adjective with the senses « robbed, beaten, tricked » (« avoir été refait »), with citations from Maurice Leblanc (La Comtesse de Cagliostro, 1924) and Raymond Devos (« Je suis refait ! »), and separately a familiar sense « happy or satisfied ». It has no separate entry for the phrase « être refait ». The delighted use in youth speech is a recent term; no dated source found yet.

FIRST SEEN

1924 (earliest citation of the tricked sense on Wiktionnaire: Maurice Leblanc)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2020s, French social media

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRêtre refait →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

1924 (earliest citation of the tricked sense on Wiktionnaire: Maurice Leblanc)

NOW

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