French A1 — Core Words: Adjectives, Numbers & Small Words flashcards
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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.
Learn deck · part of French A1–A2 · 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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long (adj.)long (long / longue / longs / longues)Describing words › Size & shape
La queue à la poste est très longue. — The queue at the post office is very long.
Watch out: Feminine longue, with a u. It usually goes before the noun (un long voyage), but les cheveux longs, une robe longue. -
haut (adj.)high; tall (building, tree) (haut / haute / hauts / hautes)Describing words › Size & shape
Cette montagne est très haute. — This mountain is very high.
Watch out: A tall person is grand, not haut. Aspirated h: le haut (the top), en haut (upstairs). -
noir (adj.)black; dark (noir / noire / noirs / noires)Describing words › Colour
Je mets ma veste noire ce soir. — I'm wearing my black jacket tonight.
Note: Il fait noir = it's dark; un café noir = a black coffee. -
sûr (adj.)sure, certain; safe (sûr / sûre / sûrs / sûres)Describing words › Quality & state
Tu es sûr de l'heure du train ? — Are you sure about the train time?
Watch out: Bien sûr ! = Of course! Keep the circumflex: sur without it means on. -
l'air (n.m.)air; look, appearanceDescribing words › Quality & state
Avec ce chapeau, Malik a l'air très sérieux. — In that hat, Malik looks very serious.
Note: avoir l'air + adjective = to look, to seem; en plein air = outdoors. -
la chose (n.f.)thingSmall words & numbers
Lucas a oublié une chose importante : son passeport ! — Lucas has forgotten one important thing: his passport!
Watch out: quelque chose = something, and it is masculine: quelque chose de bon. -
le besoin (n.m.)needSmall words & numbers
Pour la recette, on a besoin de trois œufs et de farine. — For the recipe, we need three eggs and some flour.
Watch out: To need is avoir besoin de, with no article before besoin. -
le truc (n.m.)thing, thingy; trickSmall words & numbers
C'est quoi, ce truc collé sous ma chaise ? — What's that thing stuck under my chair?
Note: Informal but very common in speech, for any thing you cannot or do not bother to name. -
le coup (n.m.)blow, knockSmall words & numbers
Le coup de fil de ma banque a duré une heure. — The call from my bank lasted an hour.
Note: Mostly in set phrases: un coup de fil = a phone call, tout à coup = suddenly. -
la partie (n.f.)part; game, matchSmall words & numbers
Mes grands-parents font une partie de cartes chaque mardi. — My grandparents play a game of cards every Tuesday.
Watch out: faire partie de = to be part of, to belong to. A share or slice is une part.
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- 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.
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