French-English Vocabulary Practice

A comprehensive review of French nouns, verbs, and phrases with their English equivalents, covering school subjects, household tasks, and common expressions.

à mon avis

in my opinion

à l’étranger

abroad, in a foreign country

l’ accueil (m)

reception (desk), welcome

l’ addition (f)

bill

les arts plastiques (m)

Art (school subject)

l’ appli (f)

app, phone application

assez (de)

enough

l’ autoroute (f)

motorway

avoir envie (de + infinitive)

to want (to + infinitive)

avoir raison

to be right

bavard(e)

talkative, chatty

le bien-être

wellbeing

bien sûr

of course

la boucherie

butcher’s shop

c’est trop bien !

that’s so good!

le centre commercial

shopping centre, mall

chez + pronoun or noun

at the house of, at someone’s place

le collège

junior high school

commander

to order

connaître

to know someone, to be acquainted with

le contrôle

assessment, test

se débrouiller

to manage, to get by in life

de temps en temps

from time to time

détester

to hate

l’ emploi du temps (m)

timetable

enfin

finally, at last

s’ entendre (bien, mal)

to get on (well, badly)

l’ E.P.S. (l’éducation physique et sportive) (f)

Physical Education, PE (school subject)

être en train de (+ infinitive)

to be in the middle of (+ gerund)

faire des économies

to save money

faire la vaisselle

to do the dishes

la famille recomposée

blended family

heureusement

fortunately, luckily

il (me, te, lui) faut + infinitive

it is necessary (for me, you, her, him) to + infinitive, one has to + infinitive, you have to + infinitive

l’ informatique (f)

computing, Digital Technologies (school subject)

insupportable

unbearable

le journal

newspaper, TV news

jusqu’à

until

le lycée

senior high school

la mairie

town hall

le maori

Māori (school subject)

la matière

subject (at school)

mieux (que)

better (than) (adverb)

nager

to swim

n’importe quoi

anything, whatever

nouveau (m), nouvelle (f), nouvel (m — before a vowel)

new

l’ œil (m) (les yeux)

eye (eyes)

Pâques (m)

Easter

par conséquent

consequently, as a result

le petit boulot

small paid job

le plat principal

main dish

se promener en voiture/bateau

to go on a car/boat ride

la récréation, récré

interval, break (at school)

rendre visite à quelqu’un

to visit (a person)

réussir (à)

to succeed, to manage (to + infinitive), to pass (an exam)

roux (m), rousse (f)

red (hair)

surtout

especially

le TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse)

French high-speed train

se tromper (de)

to make a mistake, to get the wrong (+ noun)

venir de + infinitive

to have just + past participle

vieux (m), vieille (f), vieil (m — before a vowel)

old

le vol

flight, theft