Look at these sentences:
Nous avons fait la queue toute la nuit pour ces billets.We queued all night for these tickets.
Je déteste faire la queue au supermarchéI hate queueing at the supermarket
Luc fait la queue au distributeur de billetsLuc is queueing at the ATM
Tu ne fais pas souvent la queue.You don't queue often.
In French "to queue" or "to line up" becomes "faire la queue"
You cannot say 'je queue' nor 'je ligne'
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