WHEN learning any language, having a sufficient vocabulary is a key component in getting your message across. It is all well and good (and necessary!) to know how to conjugate verbs. But if when the time came you could remember only how to say the word for ‘bathroom’, a kind but probably smirking French person would surely lead you to it, no verbs required.
French words
This list of French words are all nouns. In French, nouns are either masculine or feminine and therefore take a masculine or feminine article. There isn’t much rhyme or reason to whether a noun is masculine or feminine, so you just have to learn them. Also, there are three definite articles, all of which mean ‘the’! They are le, la and les (masculine, feminine and plural, respectively). There are also three indefinite articles – un, une, des – which translate into ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘some’.
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| English | French | Pronunciation |
|---|---|---|
| telephone | le téléphone | tay-lay-FOHN |
| train | le train | trehn |
| word | le mot | moh |
| bathroom | la salle de bains | sahl de bahn |
| bank | la banque | bahnk |
| hotel | l'hôtel (masc.) | oh-TEL |
| bus | l'autobus (masc.) | aw-toh-BOOS |
| man | l'homme (masc.) | ohm |
| woman | la femme | fahm |
| boy | le garçon | gar-SOHN |
| girl | la fille | feel |
| water | l'eau (fem.) | oh |
| wine | le vin | van |
| house | la maison | may-ZOHN |
| room | la chambre | SHAHM-bruh |
| door | la porte | port |
| pen | le stylo | stee-LOH |
| pencil | le crayon | crah-YON |
| chair | la chaise | shehz |
| table | le table | TAH-bluh |
| light | la lumière | loo-MYAIR |
| breakfast | le petit déjeuner | puh-TEE day-zhe-NAY |
| lunch | le déjeuner | day-zhe-NAY |
| dinner | le dîner | dee-NAY |
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