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Everyday French: 28 lessons, from hello to the news

997 words, in teaching order

Words 501–600
nez
nose; someone who invents perfumes
Noun
bouche
mouth
Noun
dent
tooth; cog (tooth on a gear)
Noun
cheveu
a headhair
Noun
main
hand; handball; quire
Noun
bras
arm
Noun
pied
foot; leg, foot (projection on the bottom of a piece of equipment to support it); a unit of measure equal to 32.5 centimetres; Translation for English foot (approx. 30.5 centimetres)
Noun
jambe
leg
Noun
doigt
finger; toe; finger (measurement of a beverage)
Noun
cœur
heart (organ); heart (shape); heart (love); hearts (the suit); the core of a nuclear reactor; frog (part of a railway switch or turnout where the running rails cross)
Noun
ventre
belly; antinode
Noun
dos
back (of a person); backstroke; spine (of a book)
Noun
avoir mal
to have a pain, to have an ache
Verb
douleur
pain; distress
Noun
malade
ill, unwell, sick; Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
Adjective
en forme
in form, on form; in the shape of
Adjective
santé
health
Noun
médecin
physician; (medical) doctor
Noun
médicament
drug, medication, medicine, pharmaceutical, prescription
Noun
fièvre
fever
Noun
rhume
cold (illness)
Noun
fatigué
tired
Adjective
sang
blood
Noun
blessure
wound; injury
Noun
reposer
to put down, to place; to rest; to rest, to repose; to be based on
Verb
infirmier
nurse (medical professional)
Noun
ambulance
ambulance (emergency vehicle)
Noun
sentir
to smell (to have a certain odor); to taste; to feel (physical perception); to smell of, taste of; to smack of; to indicate, foreshadow; to have the character, manner, feeling or appearance of; to give a feeling of; to feel, be aware of, be conscious of; to feel (in oneself); to show, be felt (of effect, improvement etc.)
Verb
rendez-vous
date; rendezvous; appointment
Noun
assurance
self-confidence; assurance, guarantee; insurance; insurance policy; insurance company
Noun
poids
weight
Noun
soleil
sun (star); sunflower
Noun
pluie
rain; loads of things
Noun
pleuvoir
to rain
Verb
vent
wind; flatulence; empty words, hot air; wind instrument
Noun
neige
snow, crystalline frozen precipitation; cocaine, crack; snow, pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set
Noun
nuage
cloud
Noun
ciel
sky; heaven; canopy (of a bed, etc.)
Noun
étoile
star; mullet; a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull
Noun
lune
the Moon; any natural satellite of a planet; a month, particularly a lunar month
Noun
terre
earth; soil; land, property (delimited area)
Noun
montagne
mountain; mountain (huge amount); mountain (challenging task); a very large, muscular man
Noun
rivière
a river (a large, winding stream that flows into a lake, bay, larger river, etc., but not into an ocean or sea)
Noun
fleuve
a river that flows into an ocean or sea (a river that flows into another river or body of water is called a rivière); a continuous and unstoppable stream of people, things, or words; a river god, or the allegorical artistic representation of a river as an old, bearded man lying on reeds and holding or leaning on an urn from which the river's water flows
Noun
lac
lake
Noun
forêt
forest
Noun
arbre
tree (plant, diagram, anything in the form of a tree); axle; drive shaft
Noun
fleur
flower; bloom; blossom; collectively, the reproductive organs and the envelope which surrounds them in angiosperms (also called "flowering plants"); flowering plant; angiosperm; the plant with flowers itself; a kind favor given by one person to another; the best of something; the virginity of a woman; Substances with a state of purity or extreme separation, produced by sublimation
Noun
herbe
grass (the plant); weed; marijuana; ganja; cannabis
Noun
sable
sand; the heraldic colour sable; black
Noun
pierre
stone (substance); stone (rock, a pebble); real estate
Noun
air
air (gases of the atmosphere); tune, aria; appearance; air (pretension)
Noun
nature
nature; lexical category
Noun
île
island
Noun
champ
field in its various senses, including; a wide open space; an area of study; a vector field, tensor field, or scalar field (but not a commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse, cf. corps m); the background of a shield's design
Noun
campagne
country (the country, rural area, as opposed to the town or city), countryside; campaign
Noun
monde
world; people
Noun
pays
land; region; home ground; homeland; home country; country; nation; country
Noun
nuageux
cloudy
Adjective
orage
thunderstorm; storm, upset; turmoil, tumult; a device on an organ, which produces a "thunder" effect, usually by playing a large cluster chord on the pedalboard
Noun
tremblement de terre
earthquake
Noun
température
temperature
Noun
degré
degree
Noun
chaleur
heat; heat (a state of sexual aggression)
Noun
feuille
leaf (of a plant); sheet (of paper, etc); ear
Noun
animal
animal
Noun
chien
dog; cock, hammer (of a firearm)
Noun
chat
cat (feline); cat, tom, tomcat; tag, tig (children’s game); chat (online discussion)
Noun
oiseau
bird
Noun
cheval
horse; horse, H (narcotic)
Noun
vache
cow (bovine)
Noun
mouton
sheep (animal); mutton (meat); lemming, sheep (someone who follows a crowd and succumbs to groupthink); mouton (coin); dust bunny
Noun
chèvre
goat (species); she-goat (individual female animal); goat cheese, goat's cheese
Noun
cochon
piglet; pig; dirty pig, swine, contemptible person
Noun
poule
hen (female chicken); chick, bird (woman); pool; pool, group (stage of a competition before the knockout stages)
Noun
singe
monkey; ape; foolish or mischievous man; shrewd man; hierarchical superior; food
Noun
ours
bear; A person like a bear; loner, someone who avoids company; beast, beastly person; bear (hairy gay man); pressman, worker with a hand printing press; masthead, imprint (list of a publication's main staff); rough cut; prison, jail
Noun
loup
wolf; bass (fish); mask, eyemask; flaw
Noun
renard
fox (small carnivore); crafty, purposeful and cunning character; flatulence; ancient navigation tool: circular, wooden or copper plate, which enables the helmsman to keep a record of wind conditions by inserting pegs at specific positions; hardly detectable cracks or holes causing a water tank or pond to empty itself
Noun
lapin
rabbit
Noun
souris
mouse (rodent); computer mouse; a part of a leg of lamb; young woman, girlfriend; a smile
Noun
serpent
snake
Noun
abeille
bee, honey bee; a writer whose style is considered pure like honey; bullet
Noun
papillon
butterfly; someone brilliant, versatile and inconstant; knot; butterfly stroke; parking ticket; butterfly valve
Noun
insecte
insect
Noun
moustique
mosquito; gnat; pest
Noun
éléphant
elephant (large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea); male elephant
Noun
lion
lion; male lion; lion (brave person); lion (celebrity; famous person); a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy
Noun
tigre
tiger
Noun
tortue
turtle or tortoise
Noun
canard
duck (of either sex); drake (male duck); canard, hoax; newspaper; a man who complies with every desire of his partner in order to avoid conflict; a man who tries to attract women by offering them gifts; lump of sugar dunked in coffee or brandy; off-note
Noun
cerf
a stag, a hart
Noun
baleine
whale (mammal); whalebone, bone; stay (prop for clothing, in particular corsets); landwhale
Noun
animal de compagnie
companion animal, pet (animal kept as a companion)
Noun
grenouille
frog; any small, green frog (e.g., leopard frog, tree frog, etc.); female genitals
Noun
escargot
snail; slowpoke, slowcoach
Noun
travail
work; labor; job; workplace
Noun
entreprise
company, business; enterprise, project
Noun
patron
a boss, employer,; a head of a group of people, a department, a location, etc.; a member of the upper classes who offered aid and protection to those lesser than them; a protector; a powerful or influential person who supports another's career through their support and approval; a pimp or brothel-keeper; a model or template; a pattern; a stencil; a piece of wood from which an instrument is made
Noun
employé
employee; nonmanagerial worker
Noun