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How do you ask 'Where is the bathroom?' in a French café?

Où sont les toilettes ? means where is the bathroom?

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  1. Où est la salle à manger ?
  2. Où sont les toilettes ? ✔
  3. Où est la sortie ?

Why: In French, the public restroom is les toilettes, plural, so you say où sont. La salle à manger is the dining room, and la sortie is the exit.

Huh, didn't know that: Many signs just say WC, from the English 'water closet'.

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I learned où sont les toilettes before anything else in French. Some phrases are just more urgent.
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Answer: Où sont les toilettes ?. In French, the public restroom is les toilettes, plural, so you say où sont. La salle à manger is the dining room, and la sortie is the exit.

  1. Larousse French-English: toilette www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/toilettes
    toilettes (publiques) (public) toilets (UK), restroom (US) aller aux toilettes to go to the toilet
    Checked 2026-10-12.

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