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Ninety A2 words for travel, health, work and school, shopping, weather, feelings, leisure and the home, including seventeen everyday verbs with key forms. Nouns carry article and gender, adjectives all four forms, each with an original example and the usual trap.

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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. ouvrir (v.) (j'ouvre, nous ouvrons)
    to open

    Tu peux ouvrir la boîte de biscuits pour Léo ? — Can you open the biscuit tin for Léo?

    Watch out: Present endings like an -er verb (j'ouvre, tu ouvres); past participle ouvert.
    Everyday verbs
  2. le voisin / la voisine (n.m./n.f.)
    neighbour

    Notre voisine arrose nos plantes quand on part. — Our neighbour waters our plants when we go away.

    Watch out: The neighbourhood itself is le quartier.
    People & family
  3. avoir mal à (expr.)
    to have a pain in, to hurt

    Après trois heures de jardinage, Hugo a mal à l'épaule. — After three hours of gardening, Hugo's shoulder hurts.

    Watch out: à contracts with the articles le and les: mal au dos, mal aux dents.
    Body & health
  4. l'argent (n.m.)
    money; silver

    Mamie cache son argent sous une pile de draps. — Grandma hides her money under a stack of sheets.

    Watch out: For money, always singular: de l'argent, never "des argents".
    Food & shopping
  5. le voyage (n.m.)
    trip, journey

    Pour leurs trente ans de mariage, mes parents préparent un voyage au Portugal. — For their thirtieth wedding anniversary, my parents are planning a trip to Portugal.

    Watch out: Bon voyage ! = Have a good trip. The verb voyager keeps an e before o: nous voyageons.
    Town & travel
  6. le temps (n.m.)
    weather; time

    La météo annonce un temps froid pour le week-end. — The forecast is for cold weather at the weekend.

    Watch out: Je n'ai pas le temps = I don't have time, but the clock time is Quelle heure est-il ?
    Time & weather
  7. la plage (n.f.)
    beach

    Cette plage est presque vide en octobre. — This beach is almost empty in October.

    Watch out: Feminine although most nouns in -age are masculine. au bord de la mer = at the seaside.
    Nature & the world
  8. la natation (n.f.)
    swimming (the sport)

    Le samedi matin, Chloé fait de la natation à la piscine municipale. — On Saturday mornings, Chloé goes swimming at the local pool.

    Watch out: Sports take faire de: faire de la natation, du tennis. To swim is nager (nous nageons).
    Free time & culture
  9. content (adj.)
    happy, pleased, glad (content / contente / contents / contentes)

    Mes grands-parents sont contents de leur voyage en Grèce. — My grandparents are pleased with their trip to Greece.

    Watch out: content de + noun or infinitive: contente de mon travail.
    Feelings & character
  10. envoyer (v.) (j'envoie, nous envoyons)
    to send

    Ce soir, j'envoie les photos des vacances à mes cousins de Lille. — Tonight I'm sending the holiday photos to my cousins in Lille.

    Watch out: y becomes i before a silent ending: j'envoie, ils envoient. Irregular future: j'enverrai.
    Talking & thinking

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  • Checked against the Larousse and Le Robert online dictionaries, the Bescherelle conjugation tables, the Larousse and Cambridge French–English dictionaries for glosses, and the TLFi (CNRTL), the OQLF Banque de dépannage linguistique and the Académie française dictionary's Courrier des internautes for usage notes, with the Council of Europe CEFR A2 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.

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