French A1–A2 flashcards
17 decks · 1,462 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: CEFR A1–A2; standard metropolitan French; the vocabulary is 1,000 of the most frequent everyday words of an OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list, since DELF publishes no word list. Updated 2026-10-10.
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What's in it
Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.
Learn · 13 decks · 1,140 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Core Vocabulary
One hundred A1 words: thirty of the verbs beginners use most, with their key forms, forty-nine everyday nouns by theme with gender, the adverb actuellement, and twenty adjectives with all four forms, position (BAGS) and the false friends that trip up English speakers.
Core Words: Adjectives, Numbers & Small Words
58 of the most frequent French A1 words, with the numbers from zero to a thousand: describing words (sûr, prêt, génial, difficile) and everyday small words (bien, trop, vite, à cause de), each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: Everyday Verbs
43 of the most frequent French A1 verbs: coming and going, getting on and off, giving, bringing and taking, keeping and losing, carrying on and stopping, each with its key forms, an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: People, Feelings & Ideas
100 of the most frequent A1 French words for people and family, body and health, home, work, feelings, and talking and thinking, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time
49 of the most frequent French A1 words, with the days, months and seasons: time words, town and travel, food and shopping, nature and free time, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Phrases & Core Grammar
Seventy prompts on the A1 essentials: tu vs vous, greetings, three ways to ask a question, articles and contractions, ne…pas, c'est vs il est, possessives, key present-tense verbs, futur proche, passé composé with avoir or être, numbers, time and dates.
Vocabulary
Ninety A2 words for travel, health, work and school, shopping, weather, feelings, leisure and the home, including seventeen everyday verbs with key forms. Nouns carry article and gender, adjectives all four forms, each with an original example and the usual trap.
Core Vocabulary, Part 1
102 of the most frequent French words (A2, part 1): everyday verbs, people and feelings, town and travel, home, work and school, opinions and talk, and small words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Vocabulary, Part 2
102 of the most frequent French A2 words: everyday verbs, talking and thinking, body and health, home, town and travel, work and study, feelings and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Vocabulary, Part 3
102 of the most frequent French A2 words: everyday verbs, family, body and health, home, food, town, nature, work and school, free time, feelings, talking and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Vocabulary, Part 4
102 of the most frequent French A2 words (part 4): everyday verbs, work and study, food and shopping, nature and travel, home and health, feelings and describing words, and small words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Vocabulary, Part 5
102 of the most frequent French A2 words (part 5): everyday verbs, people, body, home and clothes, food and shopping, town and travel, work and study, free time and media, feelings, describing words and small words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Grammar
Seventy prompts on A2 grammar: passé composé with avoir or être and agreement, imparfait vs passé composé, futur proche and futur simple, object pronouns, y and en and their order, negation forms, comparatives and superlatives, qui, que and où, and reflexive verbs in the past.
Drills · 3 decks · 272 cards
Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.
In Context: Core Words
Ninety-two French A1 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A1 vocabulary decks (people, time and places, verbs, describing words) so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
In Context: Core Words, Part 1
Ninety French A2 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A2 vocabulary and A2 Core Vocabulary, Parts 1–2, so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
In Context: Core Words, Part 2
Ninety French A2 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A2 Core Vocabulary, Parts 3–5, so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
Practice · 1 deck · 50 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Essential verbs 23
- Everyday verbs 115
- People & family 66
- Home & daily life 81
- Food & shopping 86
- Town & travel 97
- Time & weather 93
- Nature & the world 49
- Work & study 84
- Free time & culture 77
- Feelings & character 80
- Talking & thinking 113
- Describing words 120
- Colour 1
- Quality & state 20
- Size & shape 2
- Small words & numbers 125
- Adverbs 14
- Numbers 29
- Prepositions & conjunctions 1
- Pronouns & determiners 1
- Quantities 4
- Body & health 69
- Greetings & courtesy 10
- Questions 8
- Articles & contractions 11
- Negation & il y a 6
- C'est vs il est 3
- Possessives 6
- Present tense 14
- Future & past 11
- Numbers 6
- Time & dates 6
- Passé composé 10
- Imparfait vs passé composé 11
- Future 8
- Object pronouns 9
- Y & en 7
- Pronoun order 5
- Negation 7
- Comparatives & superlatives 8
- Relative pronouns 7
- Reflexive verbs in the past 9
- Food & drink 3
- Adjectives before the noun 3
- Adjectives after the noun 3
- Travel & transport 4
- Health & body 3
- Work & studies 3
- Shopping & money 3
A study plan
- 53 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 27 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 18 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.
Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.
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Every deck is built into Willys
All 17 French A1–A2 decks (1,462 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
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About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Checked against the Larousse and Le Robert online dictionaries, the TLFi (CNRTL), the Bescherelle conjugation tables, the Académie française's 1990 spelling rectifications, the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries for glosses, the OQLF Grand dictionnaire terminologique for Québec usage, Service-Public.gouv.fr for French restaurant rules, Eurydice (European Commission) for French school ages, UNESCO's listing of the gastronomic meal of the French and the OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0) for verb frequency, with the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries and the TLFi, and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, and usage notes against the TLFi and the Académie française dictionary (CNRTL). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, usage notes against the TLFi (CNRTL), and Québec usage against Usito (Université de Sherbrooke). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, pronunciation against the TLFi (CNRTL), and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 spelling rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Bescherelle conjugation and grammar references, the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries, the TLFi and the Académie française dictionary (CNRTL), the Académie française guidance on the 1990 spelling corrections, the OQLF Banque de dépannage linguistique for Québec usage, the Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophone (BDLP, Université Laval) for Swiss usage, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's A1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Meanings checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the TLFi (CNRTL), verb forms against the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Cambridge and Larousse French–English dictionaries, and the few facts about France and Switzerland against Météo-France, the French foreign ministry and UNESCO. All sentences are original.
- Checked against the Larousse and Le Robert online dictionaries, the Bescherelle conjugation tables, the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries for glosses, and the TLFi (CNRTL), the OQLF Banque de dépannage linguistique and the Académie française dictionary's Courrier des internautes for usage notes, with the Council of Europe CEFR A2 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, the TLFi and the Académie française dictionary (9th edition), and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries and the TLFi, and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, forms and usage notes against the Académie française dictionary (CNRTL), Québec usage against the Office québécois de la langue française's Banque de dépannage linguistique and Usito (Université de Sherbrooke), spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, and facts against the Prime Minister's circular of 21 February 2012 (no. 5575/SG), the Assemblée nationale's written answer on it and SNCF Voyageurs' open-data timetables (ODbL). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, usage notes against the TLFi, the Académie française dictionary (9th edition) and the Académie's Questions de langue, spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, and the fact about Corsica against INSEE (Licence Ouverte 2.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; meanings and gender checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries, usage notes against the TLFi and the Académie française dictionary (9th edition), spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, Québec usage against Usito (Université de Sherbrooke), and France's national holiday against Service-Public.gouv.fr (Licence Ouverte 2.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Bescherelle conjugation tables, the Académie française's Questions de langue and Dictionnaire (9th edition), Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries and their usage and grammar notes, the CNRTL TLFi, the Académie française's 1990 rectifications for verb spellings, the Office québécois de la langue française's Banque de dépannage linguistique, Le Bon Usage (Grevisse) for agreement rules, and the Council of Europe CEFR A2 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's A2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Meanings checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries, verb forms against the Bescherelle conjugation tables, glosses against the Larousse French–English dictionary, spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, and facts against Service-Public.fr and the DGAC's monthly commercial air traffic data on data.gouv.fr (both Licence Ouverte 2.0). All sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's A2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of French content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Meanings checked against the Le Robert and Larousse online dictionaries, the TLFi and Usito (Québec usage), verb forms against the Bescherelle conjugation tables, and facts against Service-Public.fr and the Education Ministry's school calendar (both Licence Ouverte 2.0), Eurydice, Santé publique France (mangerbouger.fr), the Larousse encyclopedia, the Hong Kong Observatory's lunar calendar tables, the Marseille and La Rochelle local-authority websites and the OIF Secretary-General's 2018 report. All sentences are original.
- Checked against the Larousse, Le Robert and Cambridge online dictionaries, the TLFi and the Académie française dictionary (9th edition) through CNRTL, the Bescherelle conjugation and grammar references, the Office québécois de la langue française's Banque de dépannage linguistique, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 and A2 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied).
- Original questions written for this deck, including every sign, message and email; no official, textbook or question-bank items were copied.
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