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First words: what children learn to say first

486 words, in teaching order

Words 101–200
manger
to eat
Verb
pluie
rain; loads of things
Noun
cheveu
a headhair
Noun
sucre
sugar
Noun
beau
handsome, fine, attractive; nice; fair (weather)
Adjective
joli
pretty; cute; jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable
Adjective
boîte
box (a container); tin, can; company, employer
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
poupée
doll (object); A girl or woman.
Noun
lune
the Moon; any natural satellite of a planet; a month, particularly a lunar month
Noun
lunette
telescope (refracting telescope); lunette; toilet seat; breastbone; eyeglasses, spectacles
Noun
couteau
knife; razor clam; any bivalve in the genus Solen.
Noun
feuille
leaf (of a plant); sheet (of paper, etc); ear
Noun
papier
paper (A material used for writing or printing on, made from cellulose pulp rolled into thin sheets); paper (official documents); article, piece (in a newspaper); paperwork
Noun
pleurer
to cry, to weep; to shed tears; to mourn, to cry for
Verb
doigt
finger; toe; finger (measurement of a beverage)
Noun
bras
arm
Noun
fromage
cheese
Noun
éléphant
elephant (large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea); male elephant
Noun
table
table (furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses); flat surface atop various objects; flat part of a cut or carved object; table of a stringed instrument; matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns; systematic list of content
Noun
monsieur
mister, sir (a title or form of address for a man, used with or without the name in direct or third-person address); gentleman
Noun
soleil
sun (star); sunflower
Noun
téléphone
telephone
Noun
ventre
belly; antinode
Noun
train
train (rail mounted vehicle); pace; noise
Noun
fermer
to shut; to close; to do up (of clothing); to switch off, to turn off (of a device or an appliance); to shut down, to discontinue, to axe (of a service); to bind off (of stitches in knitting); to harden (of someone's face); to put someone off something, to turn someone off something; to mark the border of
Verb
tracteur
tractor
Noun
cadeau
present, gift
Noun
cacher
to hide; to hide (oneself)
Verb
piscine
swimming pool; piscina
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
brosse
brush (the implement); crew cut
Noun
à
to (destination); at, in, on (said of a particular place); at (said of a particular time); to (until); on the, to (some directions); from (origin); of (belonging to); by; to (used to express something not completed); used to make compound nouns to state what something is used for; …
Preposition
dent
tooth; cog (tooth on a gear)
Noun
fille
girl; daughter; prostitute, wench
Noun
beurre
butter
Noun
où
where (interrogative); where (relative pronoun); at that time; when; whither, to where
Adverb
regarder
to look at; to watch; to face; to concern (be associated with)
Verb
jouer
to play (engage in games or play); to play (produce music from a musical instrument); to play (a role); to bid (money), gamble; to be close to the end, to be only a matter of time, be decided (as a fate); to be of importance (in), affect, intervein (in); to take advantage of, make fun of
Verb
bavoir
bib
Noun
bavette
bib; bavette; beef flank steak; beef flap steak
Noun
soupe
soup
Noun
manteau
coat; mantle (garment worn by Orthodox bishops); mantle; mantle (of molluscs); pavilion; mantel (of a fireplace)
Noun
cuisine
kitchen; culinary art or cuisine
Noun
nuit
night
Noun
lion
lion; male lion; lion (brave person); lion (celebrity; famous person); a style of elegant young man that came after the dandy
Noun
papillon
butterfly; someone brilliant, versatile and inconstant; knot; butterfly stroke; parking ticket; butterfly valve
Noun
minuscule
tiny, minute, minuscule; lowercase
Adjective
petit
small; little; petty
Adjective
moi
me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun); me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)
Pronoun
viande
meat; food; an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat
Noun
balai
broom; broomstick flown by witches; the last bus or train (at night); tail (of a bird of prey); brush (electrical contact); blade (of windscreen wiper); year (used in referring to someone’s age)
Noun
mouiller
to make wet, get wet, dampen, moisten; to water (down); to cast, drop (anchor); to palatalize; to anchor, lie at anchor; to be so frightened as to piss oneself; to be wet; to rain; to stick one's neck out
Verb
ça
that (distal demonstrative pronoun); this (proximal demonstrative pronoun); it (alternative form of ce as a subject of être in tenses other than the present and imperfect indicative); it, that, they, them (reduplicated pronoun referring to an indefinite or generic noun phrase); it (dummy pronoun); used to indicate actions happening generally without specifying an agent, like on but with a greater suggestion of mass, generalized, unattributable, or confused action; people; creates isolated emphatic forms of the interrogatives qui, où, quand, comment and pourquoi; he, she, it (third-person singular subject pronoun); him, her, it (third-person singular object pronoun); they (third-person plural subject pronoun); …
Pronoun
ouvrir
to open; to begin, to initiate; to open (of a door or a flower); to open, to begin; to turn on, to switch on, to put on (of a device or an appliance); to open it or the door, to answer it or the door, to get it; to cut something open, to gash something (of a part of one's body); to open onto, to lead into (+ sur); to open onto, to overlook, to look onto (of a door or a window) (+ sur); to open up to, to be open to, to be exposed to, to get a feel for (+ à); …
Verb
mouton
sheep (animal); mutton (meat); lemming, sheep (someone who follows a crowd and succumbs to groupthink); mouton (coin); dust bunny
Noun
poulet
chicken; policeman (especially a plain-clothes police detective); love letter
Noun
lumière
light; lumen; traffic light; headlight; headlamp
Noun
bleu
blue; very rare, underdone
Adjective
musique
music
Noun
danser
to dance
Verb
faire
to do; to make; to say (of a person), to go (of an animal or device); to make (cause someone or something to do something); to act like (something); to be (of the weather or various situations); to do, to make (oneself); to be, to get (used for a passive action); to ripen (of fruit), to mature; to become used to, to get used to; …
Verb
un
an, a
Article
bisou
kiss (friendly kiss); lots of love
Noun
dame
lady; queen; draughts (UK), checkers (US)
Noun
savon
soap
Noun
sauter
to jump, leap; to jump over; to sauté; to bang, hump, have sex with; to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones); to explode
Verb
neige
snow, crystalline frozen precipitation; cocaine, crack; snow, pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set
Noun
dormir
to sleep
Verb
assiette
manner of being seated, situation; seat; trim, attitude, pitch attitude; basis; dish (the food); plate, dish (the crockery); plateful
Noun
attention
attention (mental focus); vigilance; attention (concern for); attention (interest in); consideration, thoughtfulness
Noun
lourd
heavy; loaded with; clumsy, oafish; annoying, a drag; sultry, humid; heavyweight
Adjective
courir
to run; to hurry; to rush; to go
Verb
pull
pullover
Noun
sweat
sweatshirt
Noun
loup
wolf; bass (fish); mask, eyemask; flaw
Noun
soif
thirst; thirst, desire
Noun
compote
stewed fruit or meat, compote
Noun
douche
shower
Noun
vent
wind; flatulence; empty words, hot air; wind instrument
Noun
mouchoir
handkerchief
Noun
girafe
giraffe (mammal); boom (a movable pole used to support a microphone or camera)
Noun
malade
ill, unwell, sick; Mentally disturbed; crazy; nuts; mental
Adjective
propre
own; clean; toilet-trained; house-trained; proper, specific, particular; eigen-
Adjective
tortue
turtle or tortoise
Noun
lire
to read; to play; to be read
Verb
dessiner
to draw, to sketch; to draw up, to design; to take shape, to appear slowly
Verb
rouge
red (of a red color); red (left-wing, socialist); a supporter of the Republican Party
Adjective
docteur
a doctor (physician); a doctor (person who has attained a doctorate), especially a male doctor
Noun
autre
other; another; used to express the equivalence or resemblance between two or more things; second
Adjective
café
coffee (drink); coffee colour; public house; cafe, coffee shop
Noun
arbre
tree (plant, diagram, anything in the form of a tree); axle; drive shaft
Noun
pois
pea; polka dot
Noun
pot
pot, jar, vase, tin, can, carton (a container of any of various materials); cooking pot (any vessel used to cook food); dish; potty (the pot used when toilet-training children); drink, jar, bevvy (alcoholic beverage); do (UK), bash, drinks party (a small, informal party or celebration); pot, kitty, pool (money staked at cards, etc.); luck (success; chance occurrence, especially when favourable); a half-litre bottle or measure of wine; a pre-metric unit of measure, equivalent to 1.5 litres; …
Noun
pousser
to push; to urge on, encourage; to grow; to spring up, to sprout; to utter; to move aside
Verb
œuf
egg; egg; ovum; gondola lift
Noun
langue
tongue; language (system of communication using written or spoken words)
Noun
genou
knee; lap
Noun
salle
hall; room (in a house); front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.); sports hall; gym
Noun
médicament
drug, medication, medicine, pharmaceutical, prescription
Noun