French · Core 1000
The 1,000 most-frequent French words. Covers around 80% of spoken French per Nation (2006); the workhorse vocabulary every learner needs.
Source: Nation (2006) on top-1k coverage of spoken English.
730 words
| # | Word |
|---|---|
| 1 | lethe (masculine singular) |
| 2 | jeI |
| 4 | una, an (masculine) |
| 6 | dusome, any (masculine); of the |
| 7 | lathe (feminine singular) |
| 8 | deof, from |
| 8 | vousyou (formal or plural) |
| 9 | tuyou (informal singular) |
| 9 | etand |
| 10 | dansin, inside |
| 11 | quethat, which, what |
| 12 | pasnot (in ne...pas negation) |
| 12 | àto, at, in |
| 13 | ouiyes |
| 14 | ilhe, it (masculine) |
| 14 | êtreto be |
| 15 | avoirto have |
| 16 | nenot (first part of negation) |
| 16 | faireto do, to make |
| 17 | pouvoirto be able to, can |
| 18 | vouloirto want |
| 19 | enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun) |
| 19 | direto say, to tell |
| 20 | onone, we, people (informal) |
| 20 | allerto go |
| 21 | çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun) |
| 21 | venirto come |
| 24 | cethis, that, it (demonstrative) |
| 26 | pourfor, in order to |
| 29 | dessome, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les) |
| 30 | quiwho, which, that (relative pronoun); who? (interrogative) |
| 31 | maisbut |
| 33 | nouswe, us |
| 34 | elleshe, her, it (feminine) |
| 35 | meme, to me, myself (first-person singular object pronoun) |
| 36 | bienwell, good, very |
| 37 | siif; so (intensifier); yes (contradicting a negative statement) |
| 39 | ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun) |
| 41 | nonno, not |
| 43 | avecwith |
| 44 | toutall, every, quite, everything |
| 45 | plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus) |
| 46 | monmy (masculine singular possessive) |
| 48 | teyou, to you, yourself (second-person singular object pronoun) |
| 49 | auto the, at the (contraction of a + le) |
| 51 | moime, I (stressed tonic first-person pronoun) |
| 58 | ilsthey (masculine or mixed group) |
| 59 | suron, on top of, about, over (preposition); also 'sure, certain' as the adjective sûr/sûre |
| 60 | quoiwhat (interrogative and emphatic) |
| 61 | sehimself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun) |