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102 of the most frequent French A2 words (part 5): everyday verbs, people, body, home and clothes, food and shopping, town and travel, work and study, free time and media, feelings, describing words 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. inventer (v.) (j'invente, nous inventons)
    to invent; to make up

    Mon grand-père inventait des histoires pour nous faire rire. — My grandfather used to make up stories to make us laugh.

    Note: Tu inventes ! = You're making it up!
    Everyday verbs
  2. embrasser (v.) (j'embrasse, nous embrassons)
    to kiss; to hug

    Sur le quai, elle a embrassé sa grand-mère une dernière fois. — On the platform, she kissed her grandmother one last time.

    Note: At the end of a letter or message, Je t'embrasse or Bises = Love.
    People & family
  3. le toit (n.m.)
    roof

    Pendant l'orage, l'eau est entrée par le toit. — During the storm, water came in through the roof.

    Note: sous le même toit = under the same roof.
    Home & daily life
  4. le plat (n.m.)
    dish; course (of a meal)

    Comme plat principal, je vais prendre le poisson. — For my main course I'll have the fish.

    Note: le plat du jour = today's special. plat is also an adjective, flat: une région plate.
    Food & shopping
  5. la saison (n.f.)
    season

    Sur la côte, les prix baissent quand la saison est finie. — On the coast, prices drop when the season is over.

    Note: la haute saison = the high season; des fruits de saison = fruit in season.
    Time & weather
  6. chinois (adj.)
    Chinese (chinois / chinoise / chinois / chinoises)

    J'ai acheté ce joli vase chinois au marché. — I bought this pretty Chinese vase at the market.

    Watch out: Lower case as an adjective and for the language (le chinois), capital for a person: un Chinois.
    Nature & the world
  7. le / la fan (n.m./n.f.)
    fan

    Ma sœur est une grande fan de ce chanteur. — My sister is a big fan of this singer.

    Note: A fan of is fan de; the n is pronounced, as in English.
    Free time & culture
  8. le menteur / la menteuse (n.m./n.f.)
    liar

    Il a encore menti à sa mère. Quel menteur ! — He lied to his mother again. What a liar!

    Note: From mentir (to lie): je mens, nous mentons. Also an adjective: Elle est menteuse.
    Feelings & character
  9. mince (adj.)
    slim, thin (mince / mince / minces / minces)

    Mon frère mange beaucoup, mais il reste très mince. — My brother eats a lot, but he stays very slim.

    Note: Mince ! = Oh no! Drat! (a mild exclamation).
    Describing words
  10. justement (adv.)
    exactly, precisely; as it happens

    Tu parles de Julie ? Justement, elle m'a appelé hier soir. — You're talking about Julie? As it happens, she called me last night.

    Watch out: It does not mean only or merely (juste, seulement): it ties back to what was just said.
    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 and the Académie française dictionary (9th edition), spellings against the Académie française's 1990 rectifications, Québec usage against Usito (Université de Sherbrooke), and France's national holiday against Service-Public.gouv.fr (Licence Ouverte 2.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.

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