🇫🇷 French: vocabulary and grammar lists, A1 to C1

French A1: vocabulary and grammar lists

A1 27 lists2,133 cards

Level A1 — beginner: can understand and use very simple everyday expressions.

School, free time and the world · Common adjectives and adverbs · In town, shopping and travel · The home, the day and meals · People, family and the body · Function words and everyday nouns · Numbers, time, days and dates · Countries, nationalities and languages · Pronouns, determiners and negation · Introducing yourself, greetings and communicating · Everyday verbs · The passé composé: whole conjugations · The present: whole conjugations · Reading and pronunciation · Adjectives: agreement, position, très and trop · The verb in the present tense: avoir, and the possessives mon, ma, mes · Being able, wanting, having to; requests and orders · Presenting and identifying: bonjour, être, c'est · The past and the near future: habits, être en train de, aller + infinitive · Linking words: et, mais, parce que; moi, toi, lui · The verb in the present tense: dire, écrire, mettre, savoir · Nouns and articles · Prepositions of place and time: dans, à, en, chez, the clock · Quantity: the partitive and de · Questions and negation · The past and the near future: the passé composé and venir de · The verb in the present tense: -er verbs, aller, faire, prendre

French A2: vocabulary and grammar lists

A2 37 lists3,347 cards

Level A2 — elementary: can communicate in simple routine situations.

Body, health and safety · Describing and comparing · Miscellaneous · School and work · Conversation phrases · Family, friends and feelings · Places and positions · Free time, sport and shows · Shops, money and clothes · Home and daily life · Eating and drinking · Times, numbers and measures · Nature, weather and countries · Little words · Phone, internet and media · Common verbs · Travel and transport · The futur simple: whole conjugations · The imparfait: whole conjugations · The imperative: whole conjugations · The passé composé: whole conjugations, A1–A2 · The present: whole conjugations, A1–A2 · Linking words: parce que, pour, donc · Comparing and measuring: adjectives, plus… que, le meilleur · Every form so far, mixed · Negation, questions and exclamations · Object pronouns, y and en: le, lui, me · The passé composé completed · The present and the imperative completed · Relative clauses: qui, que, où · Spelling: words that sound alike · Demonstrative and possessive pronouns, and tout · The future and the condition · The imparfait and the choice of a past tense · Prepositions and adverbs of place and time: souvent, près de, depuis, d'abord · Verbs and adjectives followed by à, de or en · Object pronouns, y and en: j'y vais, j'en ai deux, j'en viens

French B1: vocabulary and grammar lists

B1 54 lists4,833 cards

Level B1 — intermediate: can handle most everyday situations independently.

Animals, plants and landscapes · Arts, shows and media · What things look like · Character and tastes · Body, looks and clothes · Describing and judging · Miscellaneous · School and language · Efforts, situations and results · Conversation phrases · Familiar French · Family, friends and stages of life · Gestures, movements and positions · Law, crime and politics · Shops, money and services · Home and daily life · Eating, drinking and cooking · Weather, the planet and the environment · Times, durations and frequency · Speaking, writing and arguing · Countries, peoples and beliefs · Thinking, hoping and deciding · Little words · Quantities and measures · Health and safety · Science and technology · Feelings and emotions · Sport, free time and going out · Work and jobs · Verbs and set phrases · Common verbs · Town, roads and transport · Travel and holidays · The conditionnel présent: whole conjugations · The plus-que-parfait: whole conjugations · The subjonctif présent: whole conjugations · Conditions with si · Every form so far, mixed · Adverbs: -ment, environ, partout; car, puisque, dès que · Negation, proportion and questions: ne… que, aucun, ni… ni, plus… plus · The present and the imperative: new forms · The participe présent, the gérondif and nouns from verbs · Object pronouns: two together, y, en and the neutral le · Linking words: purpose, concession, opposition, cause, result · Relative pronouns and emphasis: dont, lequel, c'est… qui · Reported speech: il dit que, il demande si, il me dit de · Spelling: words that sound alike · The subjunctive: subjunctive or indicative · Telling a story in the past: tenses, time words and links · The conditionnel · The passive: est fermé, a été vendu · Telling a story in the past: the plus-que-parfait · The subjunctive: the subjonctif présent · Verbs and adjectives followed by a preposition: réussir à, sûr de; inversion

French B2: vocabulary and grammar lists

B2 77 lists7,450 cards

Level B2 — upper intermediate: can interact fluently on familiar and abstract topics.

Abbreviations and acronyms · Acting, doing, changing · Arts, shows, literature · Music, theatre, film, painting and books · Good, bad, useful · Moving and positioning · Character: qualities, faults and types of people · Believing, doubting, arguing · Efforts, successes, difficulties · Acting, succeeding, failing · Miscellaneous · Gestures, movements, getting around · Nuancing and linking ideas · Speaking, writing, answering · Thinking, knowing, judging · Feelings, character, relationships · Time, age, quantities, degrees · Daily life, health, work, society · Familiar French · Family, relationships, social life · Shapes, materials, sensations · Hand movements · Intelligence, energy, courage · Joy, love, emotions · Money and the economy · The home and objects · Home, rooms, furniture and everyday objects · Housework, DIY, tools and the garden · Health and medicine · Illnesses, treatment and medicines · The body, appearance, clothes · Body details, hair, make-up, clothing details · Time and duration · Work and business · Jobs, the office and working conditions · Studies and language · Law, crime, justice · Crime, police, prison and the law · Media, screens, games and leisure · Sport, games and pastimes · Nature, animals, weather · The animal world · Plants and landscapes · Normal, different, important · Food, drink, cooking · Ingredients and food products · Cooking, dishes and meals · Nuancing, stressing, linking · Speaking and communicating · Countries, peoples, beliefs · Thinking, understanding, deciding · Little words · Fear, anger, sadness · Politics, power, war · The army, nobility, the state and elections · Quantities and measures · Science, maths, ecology · Technology and computing · Travel, transport, the city · Vehicles, roads and getting about · Rail, sea, air, holidays and the city · The conditionnel passé: whole conjugations · The futur antérieur: whole conjugations · The subjonctif passé: whole conjugations · Every form so far, mixed · The conditionnel passé and conditions about the past · Linking words: cause, result, purpose, opposition, concession · The present: new verbs · Participles and the agreement of the past participle · The passive and other ways to leave out the doer: se vend, faire réparer · Pronouns, relatives and emphasis: donne-le-moi, duquel, n'importe qui · Register: familiar, standard and formal French · Reported speech in the past: il a dit qu'il était · The compound tenses: the futur antérieur · Telling a story: the past tenses and the passé simple · The subjunctive extended · Verbs whose preposition changes the meaning

French C1: vocabulary and grammar lists

C1 62 lists5,513 cards

Level C1 — advanced: can use the language flexibly and effectively.

Acting, starting and stopping · Arts, press and leisure · Sport, games and leisure · Music, film and television · Good, bad and pleasant · Moving and positioning · Character and talents · Change, increase and decrease · Believing, doubting, arguing · Effort, success and overcoming difficulty · Setbacks, obstacles and failure · Studies, research and language · Familiar French: people and things · Familiar French: actions and descriptions · Family, relationships, society · Family, relationships, society 3 · Important, useful, necessary · Money, finance and the economy · Money and the economy · The body, health and safety · The body, pregnancy and appearance · Illness, injury and medical care · Time and duration 2 · Work and business · Business, management and industrial relations · Law, regulation and crime · Organised crime, violence and police work · Courts, lawyers and legal procedure · Food, drink and clothes · Cooking, baking and food · Houses, furnishings and housework · Nature, science and environment · Wildlife, plants and farming · Physics, space and the environment · Normal, alike, different · Nuancing, insisting, linking up · Speaking and communicating · Nations, migration and religion · Religions, clergy and beliefs · Thinking, understanding and deciding · Weighing up, judging and deciding · Little words · Politics, power and war · Armies, weapons and war · Elections, parliaments and government · Quantities and measures · Feelings and emotions · Materials, shapes, surfaces and technical terms · Tools, machines and building work · Technology and computing, advanced · Travel, transport and the city · Vehicles, roads, ships and planes · The passé simple: whole conjugations · The imparfait du subjonctif: whole conjugations · Emphasis and word order: ce à quoi je pense, c'est, detachment · Linking ideas: purpose, cause, consequence and concession · Literary narrative: the passé simple and the literary subjunctive · Register and punctuation: neutral and formal French · Saying how sure you are: il semble que, sans doute, il aurait · Si and hypotheses: the values of si, en admettant que, quand bien même · Tout and reference: tout, ce dernier, tel, la plupart · Voice and the noun group: the passive, nominal style, de nouvelles idées