Idioms and other expressions are where direct, literal translations from French to English fail. If you learn some of the most common French expressions, your comprehension of native speakers will increase dramatically.
Here is a list of all the immediate and extended family vocabulary words you might need to use in French, including their masculine and feminine versions.
Understanding French numbers can get complicated by gender, plural, irregular number patterns, and other complicators. Here’s everything you need to know about French figures, numbers, and math.
Learn dozens of animal vocabulary words all in one place, along with finding out how French speakers think about and write about male and female animals. Plus check out this list of verbs.
French adverbs tend to have more varied forms than English adverbs, but they aren’t difficult to learn. We’ve created a vocabulary list of the 45 most used adverbs in French so you can quickly learn them and reference them in one place.
When traveling to a French-speaking country, it is important to be polite by learning some basic French phrases to greet people. Greetings are more important in France than in the United States, as politeness is highly valued.
French numbers follow a similar pattern to English, with some quirks. Seventy, eighty, and ninety are a little different, as are a billion versus trillion.
Learning French colors is not difficult as many of the French words for colors are similar to English words. Colors in French are adjectives that must agree with the gender and number of the noun they are modifying. Colors can also be modified as light or dark and colors that are halfway between two major colors are described the same way in French.
When you’re learning French food vocabulary, there are a few grammar rules to pick up at the same time. When referring to food, use the partitive article, and specific food items should use le/la/les. Here’s a comprehensive list of the most common French food words.
This list is designed to be a helpful introduction to the most common French verbs. Some French verbs do not have a direct English equivalent and sometimes multiple English verbs can be translated to one French verb, or vice versa.
Here is a list of some common professions. For many of the jobs listed below, you will see...
Below are some of the most fundamental words in the French language to give you a basic foundation...
