All the basics
First sentences, read 14 of 15, 2 min
Colours, family and everyday words
Les couleurs, la famille
A small set of very common words, enough to start describing your world.
Colours
Most colours come after the noun and agree with it. These are shown in the masculine. Some add a sound for the feminine: vert becomes verte, blanc becomes blanche.
- rougered
- bleublue
- vertgreen
- jauneyellow
- noirblack
- blancwhite
- grisgrey
- rosepink
- marronbrown
- orangeorange
Family
my is mon before a masculine word, ma before a feminine one, and mes before a plural. A feminine word starting with a vowel takes mon, to keep the sounds apart: mon amie.
- ma mèremy mother
- mon pèremy father
- ma sœurmy sister
- mon frèremy brother
- mes parentsmy parents
- mon filsfeess, the l is silentmy son
- ma fillemy daughter
- mon amimy friend (male)
- mon amiemy friend (female)
Words you'll use daily
You'll see these constantly. Il y a is especially useful and never changes for plurals.
- il y aeel-yathere is, there are
- c'estit is, this is
- je voudraisI would like
- de l'eausome water
- du painsome bread
- maintenantnow
- trèsvery
- beaucoupa lot
- icihere
- làthere
The English sound guides are only rough. When they disagree with the voice, go with the voice.