Sexy Nana
Aya Nakamura & La Rvfleuze
How to study this song
Learning “Sexy Nana” means 129 entries at B2 — 63 French words, 10 adjectives and 56 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. Begin with nana, baby and go: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 56 distinct forms against 10 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| FR | EN | ES | IT | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nana | girl, chick | chica, tía | ragazza | miúda | meid | Mädel, Tussi |
| baby | baby, babe | nena | piccola | bebé | schatje | Baby, Schatz |
| go | girl | chica | ragazza | miúda | meid | Mädchen |
| racli | girl | chica | ragazza | miúda |
What this song teaches you
Level · B2
- Vocabulary words
- 63
- Adjectives
- 10
- Word combos
- 4
- Expressions
- 16
- Verb forms
- 56
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
Released on 7 May 2026 as part of the reissue of her album «Destinée», «Sexy Nana» pairs Aya Nakamura with the rapper La Rvfleuze over a trap beat produced by Joé Dwèt Filé and ABL Génie. The two verses do not answer each other so much as talk past each other: she spends hers establishing that she pays for her own things and owes nobody, while his is a street sketch of a night out. Nakamura has built a career on writing the way people actually speak in the Paris suburbs, and this is one of her densest examples — slang borrowed from West African French, from Romani and from English, all of it sung as if none of it needed explaining.
Did you know?
The song is a small museum of how Parisian French borrows: «nana» and «go» and «racli» all mean roughly «girl» but come from three different sources, and the track uses all three without translating any of them.
Charts & streaming
Released 7 May 2026 through Warner and Nakamura Industrie, as part of the «Destinée» reissue. French press reported it reaching the top of the national singles chart within two weeks of release.