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102 of the most frequent French A2 words (part 4): everyday verbs, work and study, food and shopping, nature and travel, home and health, feelings and describing words, and small words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.

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  1. frapper (v.) (je frappe, nous frappons)
    to knock; to hit, strike

    Un livreur a frappé chez nous à minuit avec une pizza que personne n'avait commandée. — A delivery man knocked at our door at midnight with a pizza nobody had ordered.

    Note: frapper à la porte = to knock at the door; frapper quelqu'un = to hit someone.
    Everyday verbs
  2. le grand-père (n.m.)
    grandfather (pl. les grands-pères)

    Mon grand-père répare encore lui-même sa vieille moto. — My grandfather still repairs his old motorbike himself.

    Note: In the family, papi or pépé; grandparents = les grands-parents.
    People & family
  3. le couteau (n.m.)
    knife (pl. les couteaux)

    Il manque un couteau dans le tiroir, tu l'as emporté au pique-nique ? — There's a knife missing from the drawer; did you take it to the picnic?

    Note: Knives, forks and spoons together are les couverts: mettre le couvert = to lay the table.
    Home & daily life
  4. la marque (n.f.)
    brand, make; mark (trace)

    Quelle marque de café est-ce que tu achètes d'habitude ? — What brand of coffee do you usually buy?

    Watch out: A school mark is une note, never une marque.
    Food & shopping
  5. l'après-midi (n.m.)
    afternoon

    Je suis rentré du travail à trois heures de l'après-midi. — I got home from work at three in the afternoon.

    Note: It may also be feminine (une belle après-midi), but the Académie française prefers the masculine.
    Time & weather
  6. l'énergie (n.f.)
    energy

    Notre maison utilise l'énergie du soleil pour chauffer l'eau. — Our house uses energy from the sun to heat the water.

    Note: Of a person: plein d'énergie = full of energy.
    Nature & the world
  7. la série (n.f.)
    series (TV); series, string

    Cette série policière a déjà cinq saisons. — This crime series already has five seasons.

    Note: une série de = a series of, a string of: une série de problèmes.
    Free time & culture
  8. charmant (adj.)
    charming, lovely (charmant / charmante / charmants / charmantes)

    Nous avons rencontré un couple charmant pendant nos vacances. — We met a lovely couple during our holiday.
    Feelings & character
  9. faible (adj.)
    weak; low, slight (faible / faible / faibles / faibles)

    Après sa grippe, il se sentait encore très faible. — After his flu, he still felt very weak.

    Note: être faible en maths = to be weak at maths; the opposite is fort.
    Describing words
  10. certainement (adv.)
    certainly; most probably

    Les volets de Paul sont ouverts, il est certainement rentré de vacances. — Paul's shutters are open, so he has most probably come back from holiday.

    Watch out: Like sûrement, it often means very probably; Certainement ! on its own = Of course!
    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, usage notes against the TLFi, the Académie française dictionary (9th edition) and the Académie's Questions de langue, spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, and the fact about Corsica against INSEE (Licence Ouverte 2.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.

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