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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.

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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. remettre (v.) (je remets, nous remettons)
    to put back; to put off; to hand in (passé composé: j'ai remis)

    Remets ton casque de vélo sur l'étagère du garage. — Put your bike helmet back on the garage shelf.

    Note: remettre à plus tard = to put off until later; remettre un devoir = to hand in homework.
    Everyday verbs
  2. la relation (n.f.)
    relationship; connection

    Ma relation avec mes collègues est excellente. — My relationship with my colleagues is excellent.

    Watch out: A relative (a family member) is un parent, not une relation.
    People & family
  3. jeter (v.) (je jette, nous jetons)
    to throw; to throw away

    Ne jette pas tes épluchures dans l'évier, mets-les au compost. — Don't throw your peelings in the sink; put them in the compost.

    Watch out: In the present, the t doubles before a silent ending: je jette, ils jettent, but nous jetons.
    Home & daily life
  4. prêter (v.) (je prête, nous prêtons)
    to lend

    Tu pourrais prêter ta perceuse à Karim ce week-end ? — Could you lend your drill to Karim this weekend?

    Watch out: To borrow is emprunter. The person takes à: prêter un livre à Paul.
    Food & shopping
  5. le retard (n.m.)
    delay; lateness

    Notre colis pour la Martinique a eu dix jours de retard. — Our parcel to Martinique was ten days late.

    Watch out: A person who is late est en retard: Désolé, je suis en retard !
    Time & weather
  6. le bois (n.m.)
    wood; woods

    Mon grand-père a fait cette table en bois. — My grandfather made this table out of wood.

    Watch out: Same in the plural (les bois). Not to be confused with je bois, from boire (to drink).
    Nature & the world
  7. le cadeau (n.m.)
    present, gift (pl. les cadeaux)

    Pour notre crémaillère, Julie et Marc nous ont fait un cadeau très original. — For our housewarming, Julie and Marc gave us a very unusual present.

    Note: faire un cadeau à quelqu'un = to give someone a present.
    Free time & culture
  8. rire (v.) (je ris, nous rions)
    to laugh (passé composé: j'ai ri)

    On a beaucoup ri pendant le dîner hier soir. — We laughed a lot over dinner last night.

    Watch out: To laugh at is rire de: Ne ris pas de moi !
    Feelings & character
  9. pareil (adj.)
    the same, alike; similar (pareil / pareille / pareils / pareilles)

    Léo et son frère ont des cartables pareils, alors ils les confondent souvent. — Léo and his brother have the same school bags, so they often mix them up.

    Note: C'est pareil. = It's the same thing, it makes no difference.
    Describing words
  10. l'intérieur (n.m.)
    inside, interior

    Il pleut, alors on mange à l'intérieur ce soir. — It's raining, so we're eating inside tonight.

    Note: à l'intérieur (de) = inside; its opposite is à l'extérieur (de) = outside.
    Small words & numbers

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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 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.

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