ça va

Meaning

1. how are you? how's it going? how are things?
2. things are going fine
3. (informal) OK, all right, sure, sure thing, sounds good, that's fine, that works for me

Concepts

how are you

how do you do

how are you doing

how-d’ye-do

it’s all right

OK

🆗

how are things

how’s it going

agreed

I’m fine

fine

well

Synonyms

comment ça va

comment vas-tu

soit

je vais bien

comment allez-vous

bon

👍

d’accord

bien

👍

bonjour

👋

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sa va/

Etymology

Cognate with English: how's it going

Cognate with German: wie geht es

In summary

Literally, “it goes”; compare English how's it going?, German wie geht es?.