French A1 — In Context: Core Words flashcards
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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.
Drills 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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Maintenant, Noé to know how to faire ses lacets : il est très fier ! — Noé can tie his shoelaces now, and he's very proud of it!Maintenant, Noé sait faire ses lacets : il est très fier ! — Noé can tie his shoelaces now, and he's very proud of it!Essential verbs
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Léa a un brother jumeau : lui adore le foot, elle préfère la natation. — Léa has a twin brother: he loves football, she prefers swimming.Léa a un frère jumeau : lui adore le foot, elle préfère la natation. — Léa has a twin brother: he loves football, she prefers swimming.People & family
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Nous to live (in a place) le même immeuble que ma grand-mère : elle est au premier, nous sommes au quatrième. — We live in the same building as my grandmother: she's on the first floor and we're on the fourth.Nous habitons le même immeuble que ma grand-mère : elle est au premier, nous sommes au quatrième. — We live in the same building as my grandmother: she's on the first floor and we're on the fourth.Home & daily life
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Je réserve un ticket d'avion pour Montréal. — I'm booking a plane ticket to Montreal.Je réserve un billet d'avion pour Montréal. — I'm booking a plane ticket to Montreal.Town & travel
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La baguette est une spécialité French. — The baguette is a French speciality.La baguette est une spécialité française. — The baguette is a French speciality.Nature & the world
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Dans le train, nous to listen (to) des podcasts. — On the train we listen to podcasts.Dans le train, nous écoutons des podcasts. — On the train we listen to podcasts.Free time & culture
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Chez nous, même quand on casse un vase, on dit la truth à maman. — In our house, even when we break a vase, we tell Mum the truth.Chez nous, même quand on casse un vase, on dit la vérité à maman. — In our house, even when we break a vase, we tell Mum the truth.Talking & thinking
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Pour finir ce puzzle de cinq mille pièces, Hugo a need de toute la famille. — To finish this five-thousand-piece puzzle, Hugo needs the whole family.Pour finir ce puzzle de cinq mille pièces, Hugo a besoin de toute la famille. — To finish this five-thousand-piece puzzle, Hugo needs the whole family.Small words & numbers
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- 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.
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