Words 1–100
être
to be; to be located; to be situated; to denote time, day, or date; used to form compound tenses and structures, such as the perfect and pluperfect; certain intransitive verbs that indicate movement or a change of state (see the full list); all reflexive verbs; the passive voice
Verb
de
from (used to indicate origin); of (indicates possession, association or relationship); of (used to indicate cause); of (indicates an amount); used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word; from (used to indicate the start of a time or range); by (an amount); introduces the indirect object of some verbs; variously translated in English; used before infinitive phrases; often corresponding to an English to-infinitive or gerund; after certain verbs; …
Preposition
en
in (used to indicate space, also see usage notes); to (indicates direction towards certain very large locations, see usage notes); by (used to indicate means); as; at (used to describe an ability); of, made of (used to describe composition); in (during the following time (used for months and years)); while; by, in (describing a way of getting something); in (used to describe color); …
Preposition
il
he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject); it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects); Impersonal subject; it
Pronoun
merde
turd, piece of feces, shit; shit (something undesirable or unwanted); shit (something of poor quality); a dickhead, a fuckhead, a bastard
Noun
philosophie
philosophy, the study of thoughts; philosophy, one's manner of thinking; small pica: 11-point type; a philosophical (calm and stoically accepting) attitude
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
madame
a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address; madam, Mrs. or Ms.; a title used with a woman's full name or surname, or (in childish language) her first name; lady, woman; the female employer of a domestic servant
Noun
mademoiselle
A form of address or title for an unmarried woman: Miss; A form of address or title for a young woman, regardless of marital status: Miss; A form of address or title for a young girl: Miss
Noun
au
contraction of à + le, literally “to the, for the, at the”
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
vous
the plural personal pronoun in the second person; you (all); you, to you (indirect object pronoun); plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person
Pronoun
aller
to go; to attend (school, church regularly); to be going (to); will soon; forms a near-future tense; to be (feeling); to go well; to suit; to be X-proof (to be suitable for use in an appliance without running the risk of being damaged in the process)
Verb
bien
well; indeed; so; a lot (of); very; really; much (more, less, better, etc.); Used to confirm or ask for confirmation
Adverb
pas
The most common adverb of negation in French, typically translating into English as not, don't, doesn't, etc.; used as an intensifier in underlying rhetorical questions, mostly with voilà
Adverb
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
toi
you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun, disjunctive); yourself (reflexive object pronoun of imperative verbs)
Pronoun
présenter
to present, to introduce; to show, to present; to look; to appear, to be present (before someone); to arise, to surface, to present itself; to be a candidate
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
stagiaire
trainee; intern; pharmacist's assistant; stagiaire (cook or chef who works as an unpaid intern in a restaurant)
Noun
que
that (introduces a subordinate noun clause and connects it to its parent clause); Substitutes for another, previously stated conjunction.; when, no sooner; Links two noun phrases in apposition forming a clause without a (finite) verb, such that the complement acts as predicate.; introduces a comparison; than; as; only, just; but, nothing but; how (in rhetorical interjections)
Conjunction
salle
hall; room (in a house); front of house (public area of a restaurant, theatre, etc.); sports hall; gym
Noun
classe
class, type, group; class, cohort (all the recruits conscripted in a particular year); a period of military training; class
Noun
dans
in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state); to (indicates direction towards certain large subdivisions, see usage notes); in, within (a longer period of time); during; out of, from; in; in the works of; Used in dans les (“about, around”)
Preposition
y
there (at a place); there, thither (to there); Used as a pronoun to replace an adverbial phrase starting with à.; With verbs: see Appendix:French verbs followed by à for verbs which use this structure.; With adjectives. Only used with a handful of adjectives (the most common combination being y compris, which is a special case), mainly in legal terminology.
Pronoun
avoir
to have; to own; to possess; to get; to have (to experience or suffer from a state or condition); to have (an age); used to form the compound tenses of most verbs, such as the perfect and pluperfect.; to have (to), must; (chiefly in se faire avoir) to have (to trick; to con)
Verb
tableau
painting; picture (a captured image); writing board; table (arrangement of rows and columns); chart; tableau
Noun
du
contraction of de + le, literally “of the”