100 French Words to Know | French Lessons for Beginners

Learn French words with this quick and easy French lesson. Our French Lessons for Beginners series continues with this 13-minute lesson on basic French words. In this video, our native English speakers will say each word, and then our native French speaker will repeat the word in French. You can play this video in the background and learn just by listening. French vocabulary is essential for traveling to France, or even just learning learning how to speak French for fun.

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Many of these English words are often accompanied by the word "the". The same is true in French, however there are multiple different words for "the".

The French definite articles are "le", "la", "l'", and "les". The choice among these depends on the gender of the noun that follows (masculine or feminine), its number (singular or plural), and sometimes the first letter of the noun (whether it starts with a vowel or a consonant).

"Le": Used before masculine singular nouns. Example: Le livre (The book)
"La": Used before feminine singular nouns. Example: La pomme (The apple)
"L'": Used before singular nouns starting with a vowel or silent 'h', regardless of gender. Example: L'orange (The orange)
"Les": Used for plural nouns, regardless of gender. Example: Les chats (The cats)

Here is a list of words from the video with their singular articles:

L'année
La semaine
Le jour
La nuit
Le monde
La vie

La voiture
Le train
Le tracteur
Le bus
L'avion
Le bateau
La motocyclette
Le vélo
L'hélicoptère
L'hiver
L'automne
Le printemps
L'été

La mère
Le père
Le frère
La soeur
La grand-mère
Le grand-père
L'homme
La femme
L'ami (for a male friend)
L'amie (for a female friend)

Le chien
Le chat
Le cheval
Le tigre
L'ours
Le lion
Le singe
L'éléphant
La tortue
Le requin
La pomme
La banane
La mangue
L'orange
La poire
L'ananas
La pastèque
Le brocoli
La carotte
Le concombre
La laitue
L'oignon
La tomate

Le crayon
La gomme
Le surligneur
La règle
Le cahier
Le sac à dos
Les ciseaux
L'agrafeuse
La calculatrice
Le lit
La chaise
Le bureau
Le réfrigérateur
Le micro-ondes
La cuillère
La fourchette
Le couteau

[gracecatindoy]

Her voice is same in the Duolingo! Nice!

[ernestorevollar]

Beautiful lesson ❤. French is a fascinating language, is not that easy to learn and it can be a bit tricky to pronounce but it's worth it.

[ashleighnapier]

I started to learn French in December, I can only say words in French not sentences, it's been 2 months and I will be learning sentences in March so tyy

[LoloLayla-gs]

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[larsnystrom]

Many of the words selected are not among the most practically useful.
But even so, they help with getting some feeling for the pronanciation.
I will learn them, with that very nice pronunciation.
I had one year of school French 60 years ago. Compleatly forgotten now, of course. And we never learned that elegant pronunciation.

Although I have realized that learning individual words isn't the best way to learn a language. I want to learn entire phrases!
But single words is a start for getting the sounds of the language right.

[RudraProReacts]

Vous m'avez vraiment aidé aujourd'hui car je vais à Paris cette semaine

Encore une fois, je suis un Youtubeur, donc un merci spécial à tous les membres qui rendent la chaîne célèbre.

Translation: You really helped my day today because I am going to Paris this week

Again I am a Youtuber so special thanks to all the members make the channel famous.

[ai_pro_]

Merci, demain c'est mon examen, tu m'aides beaucoup

[fgh]

Thank you for being a part of my language journey!

[WeatherFromHell]

Thank you. I'm a French person now.😊

[fifififi]

I don’t have to worry about going to Paris because you taught me so much🎉❤

[SalGITHINJI-mbyd]

I know most of these words cuz I learned French on Duolingo so like no horse girl lady I mean I haven't watched the full video I just I'm just doing this in between horse you are a Kaiser you guys are so helpful I don't know what I would do without you guys because it is so easy to learn French now I didn't know any of these words except for some of them but you know so okay and do a video with talking open English a lot of English you guys and talk to the French princesses

[Retroplay-nfsi]

The pronunciation is really difficult the only word that i can pronounce easy are A bientót and Au revoir

[sofiaebrahim-pz]

omg this is so helpfull i love it merci🙂😁.

[Greyson-xfjz]

Thanks posting this know I know French!

[Abc-xcpp]

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