French A2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 2 flashcards
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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.
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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rejoindre (v.) (je rejoins, nous rejoignons)to meet (up with), to join (passé composé: j'ai rejoint)Everyday verbs
Je te rejoins devant la piscine après mon cours de guitare. — I'll meet you outside the swimming pool after my guitar lesson.
Watch out: No preposition after it: rejoindre des amis = to meet up with friends. -
le membre (n.m.)member; limbPeople & family
Les membres de ma famille viendront tous à Noël. — All the members of my family will come at Christmas.
Note: Usually masculine, even for a woman: Ma sœur est un membre très actif de la chorale. (une membre is sometimes heard.) -
le mur (n.m.)wallHome & daily life
On a peint les murs de la cuisine en jaune. — We painted the kitchen walls yellow.
Watch out: mûr with a circumflex is a different word: ripe. -
la bière (n.f.)beerFood & shopping
On a commandé deux bières et une limonade. — We ordered two beers and a lemonade.
Note: In a café, une pression = a draught beer. -
en avance (expr.)early (ahead of time)Time & weather
Le colis est arrivé deux jours en avance, une bonne surprise. — The parcel arrived two days early, a nice surprise.
Watch out: en avance = before a set time; tôt = early in the day or earlier than usual: je me lève tôt. The opposite is en retard. -
l'animal (n.m.)animal (pl. les animaux)Nature & the world
Est-ce que les animaux sont acceptés dans cet hôtel ? — Are animals allowed in this hotel?
Note: A pet is un animal de compagnie. -
le club (n.m.)clubFree time & culture
Le club de natation organise une fête pour ses vingt ans. — The swimming club is throwing a party for its twentieth anniversary.
Note: A nightclub is usually une boîte (de nuit). -
s'intéresser (v.) (je m'intéresse, nous nous intéressons)to be interested (in) (passé composé: je me suis intéressé·e)Feelings & character
Ma fille s'intéresse aux volcans depuis notre voyage en Islande. — Ever since our trip to Iceland, my daughter has been interested in volcanoes.
Watch out: It takes à: s'intéresser au sport. intéressé = interested; intéressant = interesting. -
normal (adj.)normal; usual (normal / normale / normaux / normales)Describing words
Après une opération, c'est normal de dormir beaucoup. — After an operation, it's normal to sleep a lot.
Watch out: -al becomes -aux in the masculine plural: des prix normaux. -
la manière (n.f.)way, mannerSmall words & numbers
Il y a plusieurs manières de cuisiner les pommes de terre. — There are several ways to cook potatoes.
Note: de toute manière = anyway, in any case; la façon means the same as la manière.
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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 and the TLFi, and spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
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