Core 1,000 Part of Chapter 2

Le rouge

The red one

Reading time: 1 min
Total words: 68
Unique words: 36
Typical word: #46

Léna's photo from her beach towel: a red beach umbrella overhead, a bag and a book, the sea behind.

A crowded beach with a long row of about twenty identical red umbrellas.

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31 words

#	Freq	Word	Translation	Part of speech	Qualifications
1	1	êtreto be	to be	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
2	4	jeI	I	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
3	6	àto, at, in	to, at, in	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
4	7	lethe (masculine singular)	the (masculine singular)	definite-article	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
5	9	lathe (feminine singular)	the (feminine singular)	definite-article	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
6	10	vousyou (formal or plural)	you (formal or plural)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
7	13	etand	and	conjunction	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
8	15	cethis, that, it (demonstrative)	this, that, it (demonstrative)	determiner	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
9	19	çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)	that, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
10	23	unea, an (feminine); one (feminine)	a, an (feminine); one (feminine)	indefinite-article	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
11	25	toutall, every, quite, everything	all, every, quite, everything	determiner	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
12	30	maisbut	but	conjunction	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
13	33	dansin, inside	in, inside	preposition	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
14	40	ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun)	there, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-higher
15	41	nonno, not	no, not	adverb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
16	46	voirto see	to see	verb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
17	47	teyou, to you, yourself (second-person singular object pronoun)	you, to you, yourself (second-person singular object pronoun)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
18	49	ouiyes	yes	adverb	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
19	50	ilsthey (masculine or mixed group)	they (masculine or mixed group)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation
20	61	toiyou (stressed tonic second-person singular pronoun)	you (stressed tonic second-person singular pronoun)	pronoun	AQA GCSEaqa-gcse-foundation

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