French core 1,000 words

The 741 most frequent French words - covering around 85% of everyday spoken French.

741 words

#	Word	Translation	Part of speech
1	lethe (masculine singular)	the (masculine singular)	article
2	jeI	I	pronoun
2	lathe (feminine singular)	the (feminine singular)	article
3	lesthe (plural)	the (plural)	article
4	una, an (masculine)	a, an (masculine)	article
5	unea, an (feminine)	a, an (feminine)	article
6	dusome, any (masculine); of the	some, any (masculine); of the	article
8	deof, from	of, from	preposition
8	vousyou (formal or plural)	you (formal or plural)	pronoun
9	etand	and	conjunction
9	tuyou (informal singular)	you (informal singular)	pronoun
10	dansin, inside	in, inside	preposition
11	quethat, which, what	that, which, what	conjunction
12	àto, at, in	to, at, in	preposition
12	pasnot (in ne...pas negation)	not (in ne...pas negation)	adverb
13	ouiyes	yes	adverb
14	etreto be	to be	verb
14	ilhe, it (masculine)	he, it (masculine)	pronoun
15	avoirto have	to have	verb
16	faireto do, to make	to do, to make	verb
16	nenot (first part of negation)	not (first part of negation)	particle
17	pouvoirto be able to, can	to be able to, can	verb
18	vouloirto want	to want	verb
19	direto say, to tell	to say, to tell	verb
19	enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)	in, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)	preposition
20	allerto go	to go	verb
20	onone, we, people (informal)	one, we, people (informal)	pronoun
21	çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)	that, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)	pronoun
21	venirto come	to come	verb
23	d'contraction of de before a vowel or mute h	contraction of de before a vowel or mute h	particle
24	cethis, that, it (demonstrative)	this, that, it (demonstrative)	determiner
25	qu'contraction of que before a vowel or mute h	contraction of que before a vowel or mute h	particle
26	pourfor, in order to	for, in order to	preposition
28	n'contraction of ne before a vowel or mute h (negation particle)	contraction of ne before a vowel or mute h (negation particle)	particle
29	dessome, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les)	some, of the (plural indefinite and partitive article; also contraction of de + les)	article
30	quiwho, which, that (relative pronoun); who? (interrogative)	who, which, that (relative pronoun); who? (interrogative)	pronoun
31	maisbut	but	conjunction
33	nouswe, us	we, us	pronoun
34	elleshe, her, it (feminine)	she, her, it (feminine)	pronoun
35	meme, to me, myself (first-person singular object pronoun)	me, to me, myself (first-person singular object pronoun)	pronoun
36	bienwell, good, very	well, good, very	adverb
37	siif; so (intensifier); yes (contradicting a negative statement)	if; so (intensifier); yes (contradicting a negative statement)	conjunction
39	ythere, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun)	there, to it, about it (adverbial pronoun)	pronoun
41	nonno, not	no, not	adverb
42	t'contraction of te before a vowel or mute h (second-person singular object pronoun)	contraction of te before a vowel or mute h (second-person singular object pronoun)	particle
43	avecwith	with	preposition
44	toutall, every, quite, everything	all, every, quite, everything	determiner
45	plusmore; no more (in negation ne...plus)	more; no more (in negation ne...plus)	adverb
46	monmy (masculine singular possessive)	my (masculine singular possessive)	determiner
47	m'contraction of me before a vowel or mute h	contraction of me before a vowel or mute h	particle

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