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French vocabulary B1: Quantities and measures
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Words for amounts and sizes: ranges and groups of things such as “le bouquet”, “la pile” and “la bande”, quantities and totals, length, depth and units of measure, fractions and approximations. Also degree adverbs such as “absolument”, “extrêmement” and “en partie”, and verbs for things that rise, fall, weigh or are counted.
93 French words at level B1, with their translation.
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un ensemble (de personnes ou de choses)also: un ensemble de personnes ou de choses
collection (of people or things)also: set, group, package
gros (en quantité)also: grosse
heavy (a lot)
élevéalso: élevée, à un niveau élevé
high (of an amount)
égalalso: égale
equal (adjective)
mesurer (qqch)
to measure (sth)
dépasser (un seuil)
to exceed (a threshold)
le manque
lack (noun)also: shortage
la limite
limitalso: boundary
limitéalso: limitée
limited
le mile
mile
tout à fait
quite (completely)
complètementalso: totalement, entièrement
completelyalso: entirely, totally, utterly
absolument
absolutely
à peine (presque pas)
hardly (almost not)also: barely, scarcely
totalementalso: complètement
totallyalso: completely, entirely, utterly
extrêmement
extremelyalso: hugely
de peu
by a narrow marginalso: by a small margin, narrowly
au plus
at mostalso: at the most, no more than
réduire
to reducealso: to cut, to lessen
le tas
heapalso: pile, mound
maximalalso: maximale
maximum (adjective)also: highest, greatest, top
prendre (de la vitesse ou du poids)
to gain (speed or weight)also: to put on
relever (un chiffre)also: augmenter
to raise (an amount)also: to increase, to put up
augmenteralso: croître, relever, accroître
to increasealso: to go up, to grow, to rise, to raise
baisser (en quantité)also: diminuer
to fall (in amount)also: to decrease, to go down, to come down, to drop
la baisse
fall (noun)also: drop
diminuer (en nombre ou en quantité)also: baisser
to decreasealso: to go down, to decline, to lessen
le tout (l'ensemble)
whole (noun)also: the whole, all of it, the whole lot
le total
totalalso: sum
en toutalso: au total
altogetheralso: in all, in total
le chiffre
figure (a number)also: digit
la quantité
quantityalso: amount
le montant
amount (of money)
l'unité (élément)
unit (single thing)
la bande (de gens)
bunch (of people)also: gang, group
le rang
row (of people)
la pile (de choses empilées)
pile (one on top of another)also: stack
la distance
distance (between two places)also: way
la hauteur
height (of a thing)
la longueur
length
la profondeur
depth
précisémentalso: exactement
preciselyalso: exactly, just
à peu près (après un nombre)
or soalso: roughly, about, approximately
principalementalso: surtout
mainlyalso: primarily, chiefly, principally
fortement (en grande quantité)
heavily (to a great degree)also: strongly, greatly
absolualso: absolue
absolutealso: utter, sheer
croître (en nombre ou en taille)also: augmenter
to grow (in number or size)also: to increase
le pouce (la mesure)
inch
de large (après une mesure)
wide (after a measurement)also: broad
le diamètre
diameter
le millimètre
millimetrealso: millimeter
la goutte (de liquide)also: la goutte de liquide
drop (of liquid)
le bouquet (de fleurs)also: le bouquet de fleurs
bunch (of flowers)also: bouquet
la tablette (de chocolat)also: la tablette de chocolat
bar (of chocolate)also: chocolate bar, block of chocolate
la rangée (ligne de choses)
row (of things)
un ou deux
one or two
deux ou trois
a couple ofalso: two or three
la gamme
range (of products)also: product line
la diversitéalso: la variété
diversityalso: variety
la variétéalso: la diversité
variety (being different)also: diversity
un large éventail
a broad rangealso: a wide range, a wide variety
un grand choix
a wide selectionalso: a large selection, a wide choice
la douzaine
dozen
la totalité de (qqch)
the whole of (sth)also: all of, the entirety of
peser
to weigh
manquer de (qqch)
to be short of (sth)also: to lack, to run short of
le yard
yard (measure)
numéroter (qqch)
to number (sth)
pratiquementalso: presque
just aboutalso: almost, nearly, practically
trois fois
three times
deux fois plus
double (adverb)also: twice as much, twice as many
couper en deux (qqch)
to cut in half (sth)also: to cut in two, to halve
approximativementalso: environ, à peu près
approximatelyalso: about, around, roughly
la cinquième partie
fifth (fraction)also: a fifth, one fifth
la diminution
decrease (noun)also: reduction, decline
à moitié
half (adverb)
un tube de (qqch)
a tube of (sth)
pleinement
fullyalso: entirely
de justesse
just (almost not)also: narrowly, only just
le minimum
minimum
égaler (qqch)
to equal (sth)also: to be equal to
abondantalso: abondante
abundantalso: plentiful, ample
de taille moyenne
medium (in size)also: medium-sized
faire en moyenne
to average
en partiealso: partiellement
partlyalso: in part, partially
terriblement
terribly (extremely)also: awfully, dreadfully
pour la plupart
mostly (most of them)also: for the most part
lourdement
heavily (with weight)
le supplément
extra (noun)also: supplement, extra charge, additional charge
en supplément
extra (adverb)also: at extra cost, for an extra charge
tout juste
only just (no more than)also: barely, just
en trop
one too manyalso: too many, too much, extra, surplus, spare, more than needed
le mètre cube
cubic metrealso: cubic meter, metre cubed
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