Français interactif: chapters 0–13

1361 words, in teaching order

Words 401–500

vacance

vacancy; holidays, vacation

Noun

poids lourd

HGV; heavy goods vehicle; heavyweight (sports category)

Noun

visiter

to visit (a place)

Verb

lieu

place; locus (set of all points whose location satisfies or is determined by one or more specified conditions); outhouse, toilet; any of several fish from the Pollachius family

Noun

personne

no one, nobody; anyone

Pronoun

cathédrale

cathedral

Noun

château

castle (fortified building or similar structure; winegrower's estate)

Noun

exposition

exposition; exhibition; exposure

Noun

monument

monument

Noun

musée

museum (a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value)

Noun

voyage

trip, journey, voyage; travel; load, wagonload, truckload

Noun

avion

aeroplane

Noun

train

train (rail mounted vehicle); pace; noise

Noun

car

as, since, because, for

Conjunction

voiture

car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse); car (wagon); car (motorized vehicle)

Noun

chez

to, at, in or into the place of; by extension, to, at or in the country of; in; among (a group of things or people of the same type); in the work of (an author or artist)

Preposition

travail

work; labor; job; workplace

Noun

métro

metro; subway (US), underground (UK), Tube (UK); resident or native of metropolitan France

Noun

bus

bus

Noun

taxi

taxi; taxi driver; helicopter or plane used for transport; act of transporting troops

Noun

moto

bike, motorbike (motorcycle)

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

acheter

to purchase; buy

Verb

amener

to bring (a person), take, fetch, give a lift, give a ride; to reel in (a fish); to lead

Verb

changer

to exchange (something); to change (money, a job, one's circumstances etc.); to change, alter (something en into); to change (a diaper); to change; to change (one's clothes), get changed

Verb

dormir

to sleep

Verb

emmener

to take off, take away or out; to take (someone) along somewhere, to take (something) with (someone)

Verb

espérer

to hope; to hope for; to have faith, to trust (with en (“in”)); to wait

Verb

essayer

to test, to try on; to try, to attempt; to try one's hand

Verb

manger

to eat

Verb

to share; to divide up; to divide; to share out

Verb

partir

to share, to share out, to divide; to go away, leave, depart; to originate; to die; to emanate; to start; to go

Verb

sortir

to exit, go out, come out; to take out, bring out; to have or take; to organise; put by sort

Verb

tête

head (part of the body); head (leader); header; a bright spark, a quick study

Noun

cheveu

a headhair

Noun

front

forehead; front, frontline

Noun

sourcil

eyebrow

Noun

œil

eye, organ that is sensitive to light, helping organisms to see; glyph, rendering of a single character; eye (of a needle)

Noun

nez

nose; someone who invents perfumes

Noun

oreille

ear

Noun

bouche

mouth

Noun

dent

tooth; cog (tooth on a gear)

Noun

menton

chin

Noun

cou

neck

Noun

blanc

white color; blank, unused; blank, without expression

Adjective

bleu

blue; very rare, underdone

Adjective

gris

gray / grey

Noun

gris

grey / gray; drunk, tipsy

Adjective

jaune

yellow

Adjective

marron

brown; feral, maroon (that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)); wild (to qualify a wild alternative for a cultivated plant or domestic animal); illicit, crooked (of professions)

Adjective

invariable

invariable

Adjective

orange

orange (fruit); orange (colour)

Noun

rouge

red (of a red color); red (left-wing, socialist); a supporter of the Republican Party

Adjective

vert

green; green, environmentally friendly

Adjective

violet

purple (colour); mushroom with a violet cap, such as a webcap or cortinar

Noun

violet

purple

Adjective

taille

the act of cutting, pruning, trimming; size; waist; waistline; a direct tax levied during the Ancien Régime; tallage; The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

Noun

moyenne

average, mean

Noun

peser

to weigh (to have a weight of); of a file, to have a given size; to weigh (to see how much something weighs); to burden, weigh down

Verb

kilo

kilo; a large quantity

Noun

maigre

meagre, skinny; lean, thin

Adjective

mince

drat!, darn!; wow!, blimey!

Interjection

couleur

color/colour; a flush; suit; tincture, colour

Noun

blond

blond (of a pale golden colour); blond (having blond hair)

Adjective

brun

brown (color/colour)

Adjective

châtain

chestnut, chestnut-coloured, brown; having chestnut hair, brunette

Adjective

roux

russet; red, ginger (refers to hair of a reddish-brown color)

Adjective

blond

blond (all senses)

Noun

brun

brown (color/colour); brown-haired person

Noun

brune

brunette (woman with brown hair)

Noun

coiffer

to cover the head; to give a haircut; to do the hair of; to do one's own hair

Verb

long

long

Adjective

court

short

Adjective

bouclé

curly

Adjective

raide

stiff, straight; steep, abrupt; stubborn; rough; broke; pissed, hammered; high, stoned

Adjective

forme

shape (geometrical representation); shape (physical appearance); form

Noun

son

his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel)

Determiner

visage

face (of a human)

Noun

carré

square; second power, power of 2; patch (of land); four of a kind; frame, framework; bob (hairstyle)

Noun

rond

circle; coin; (piece of) change, money

Noun

retrousser

to hitch up, hike up, roll up, pull up (a garment)

Verb

pointu

sharp, pointed; specialized, precise, technical, pointed; Parisian in accent or dialect

Adjective

grand

big; tall; grown up, big; great (i.e. important, outstanding, noble, fine, renowned); grand; big fat, great big (an intensifier); greater (together with the surrounding area pertaining to it)

Adjective

lunette

telescope (refracting telescope); lunette; toilet seat; breastbone; eyeglasses, spectacles

Noun

cicatrice

scar

Noun

piercing

a piercing

Noun

tatouage

tattoo