French A2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 3 flashcards
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102 of the most frequent French A2 words: everyday verbs, family, body and health, home, food, town, nature, work and school, free time, feelings, talking 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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lancer (v.) (je lance, nous lançons)to throw; to launch, to startEveryday verbs
Il a lancé la balle trop loin, dans le jardin du voisin. — He threw the ball too far, into the neighbour's garden.
Watch out: A cedilla before a and o keeps the c soft: nous lançons, je lançais. -
grandir (v.) (je grandis, nous grandissons)to grow up; to grow (taller)People & family
Mon grand-père a grandi à Brest et il parle encore breton avec ses sœurs. — My grandfather grew up in Brest and still speaks Breton with his sisters.
Note: Like finir: nous grandissons. Comme tu as grandi ! = How you've grown! -
le bain (n.m.)bath; swim (in the sea)Home & daily life
Après sa journée au chantier, Karim prend un bain avec beaucoup de mousse. — After his day on the building site, Karim has a bath with lots of bubbles.
Note: prendre un bain = to have a bath; un bain de soleil = sunbathing. -
le vin (n.m.)wineFood & shopping
Pour l'anniversaire de Julie, Paul a apporté du vin blanc d'Alsace. — For Julie's birthday, Paul brought some white wine from Alsace.
Note: du vin = (some) wine; un verre de vin = a glass of wine. -
l'époque (n.f.)time, period, eraTime & weather
À l'époque, mes grands-parents appelaient depuis la cabine téléphonique du village. — Back then, my grandparents made their calls from the village phone box.
Note: à l'époque = back then, at the time; à cette époque de l'année = at this time of year. -
étranger (adj.)foreign; unfamiliar (étranger / étrangère / étrangers / étrangères)Nature & the world
J'aimerais apprendre une langue étrangère l'année prochaine. — I'd like to learn a foreign language next year.
Watch out: Strange is étrange. As a noun, à l'étranger = abroad: Il travaille à l'étranger. -
courir (v.) (je cours, nous courons)to run (passé composé: j'ai couru)Free time & culture
Ce matin, j'ai couru cinq kilomètres avant le petit-déjeuner. — This morning I ran five kilometres before breakfast.
Watch out: One r in the present (je cours), two in the future: je courrai. -
supporter (v.) (je supporte, nous supportons)to stand, to bear, to put up withFeelings & character
Mon frère ne supporte pas l'odeur du poisson grillé. — My brother can't stand the smell of grilled fish.
Watch out: False friend: to support (help, back) someone is usually soutenir. -
inutile (adj.)useless; pointless, unnecessary (inutile / inutile / inutiles / inutiles)Describing words
C'est inutile de crier, il ne t'entend pas. — There's no point shouting, he can't hear you.
Note: Inutile de + infinitive = there's no point: Inutile d'insister. -
le milieu (n.m.)middle; environment, background (pl. les milieux)Small words & numbers
Le chat dort au milieu du lit. — The cat is sleeping in the middle of the bed.
Note: au milieu de = in the middle of: au milieu de la nuit = in the middle of the night.
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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, forms and usage notes against the Académie française dictionary (CNRTL), Québec usage against the Office québécois de la langue française's Banque de dépannage linguistique and Usito (Université de Sherbrooke), spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, and facts against the Prime Minister's circular of 21 February 2012 (no. 5575/SG), the Assemblée nationale's written answer on it and SNCF Voyageurs' open-data timetables (ODbL). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
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