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French A1 — Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time flashcards

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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.

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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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  1. le compte (n.m.)
    account (bank); count

    Mon fils a un compte à la poste pour son argent de poche. — My son has an account at the post office for his pocket money.

    Note: se rendre compte (de) = to realise: Léo se rend compte de son retard en voyant l'horloge.
    Food & shopping
  2. servir (v.) (je sers, nous servons)
    to serve; to be used for

    Le jeudi, la cantine sert du poisson avec des haricots verts. — On Thursdays the canteen serves fish with green beans.

    Watch out: servir à = to be used for: Ça sert à quoi ? = What's it for? Se servir = to help yourself.
    Food & shopping
  3. la police (n.f.)
    police

    Le voisin appelle la police à minuit. — The neighbour calls the police at midnight.

    Watch out: Singular in French: la police arrive = the police are coming. An officer is un policier.
    Town & travel
  4. la place (n.f.)
    square (in a town); seat; room, space

    On se retrouve sur la place du marché ? — Shall we meet in the market square?

    Watch out: False friend: a place in general is un endroit or un lieu. Il y a de la place = there's room.
    Town & travel
  5. le lundi (n.m.)
    Monday

    Le lundi, Sophie fait du yoga avant le petit-déjeuner. — On Mondays Sophie does yoga before breakfast.

    Note: Lowercase. lundi = on (this) Monday; le lundi = on Mondays.
    Time & weather
  6. le mardi (n.m.)
    Tuesday

    Mardi, Inès apporte un gâteau pour toute la classe. — On Tuesday Inès is bringing a cake for the whole class.

    Note: Mardi gras = Shrove Tuesday, carnival day.
    Time & weather
  7. le monde (n.m.)
    world; people (a crowd)

    Tout le monde aime ce petit restaurant. — Everybody likes this little restaurant.

    Watch out: tout le monde = everybody, with a singular verb: tout le monde est là.
    Nature & the world
  8. la terre (n.f.)
    earth, ground; soil; land

    Le chat dort par terre dans la cuisine. — The cat is sleeping on the floor in the kitchen.

    Note: par terre = on the floor, on the ground; la Terre, with a capital, is the planet.
    Nature & the world
  9. l'histoire (n.f.)
    story; history

    Papa lit une histoire aux enfants le soir. — Dad reads the children a story in the evening.

    Note: Quelle histoire ! = What a fuss! Une histoire drôle = a joke.
    Free time & culture
  10. écouter (v.) (j'écoute, nous écoutons)
    to listen (to)

    Écoute bien la question avant de répondre. — Listen carefully to the question before you answer.

    Watch out: No preposition: écouter la radio = to listen to the radio.
    Free time & culture

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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, pronunciation against the TLFi (CNRTL), and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 spelling rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.

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