Category: French Vocabulary

The French vocabulary you need to read and describe charts: naming chart types, reading axes and legends, describing increases and decreases, handling fractions, and avoiding the plus de versus plus que trap.

French idioms organized by theme: food, animals, body parts, and everyday life. Each expression includes its literal meaning, actual meaning, and an example sentence to show you how it works in real French conversation.

A complete guide to French clothing vocabulary, from everyday basics to fabrics and shopping phrases. Includes vocabulary lists for clothes, shoes, and accessories with practical context.

A complete French body parts vocabulary list organized by section of the body, with a grammar note on why French uses the definite article instead of possessive adjectives with body parts. Also covers how to describe pain and common health symptoms.

All the French weather vocabulary you need, from basic expressions to forecast terms, seasons, and temperature. Includes example sentences and a grammar note on how French describes weather differently from English.

The connectors and transition words that turn competent French into formal French. Grouped by function, like contrast, cause and consequence, addition, sequence, and clarification, with example sentences. Expressions essential for essays, formal emails, and professional documents in French.

A guide to the vocabulary you actually need for reading French newspapers and following current events: politics, economics, society, and the language of journalism

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.