1000 Most Common French Words Written by Administrator Friday, 19 February 2010 10:29 - Last Updated Friday, 19 October 2012 15:23
When starting to learn French, it is always a good idea to memorize the most common words first. This will enable you to understand many more situations than if you were leaning your French vocabulary from random sources. Here's the list of most common French words along with their English translation. Note that some words in the list perform a similar function and can be grouped into a single entry with a higher combined rank. These words include: de and d' -- translated as of, from, by, than, in, with. Combining them brings de/d' to the second position in the list. un, une and des -- the French equivalents for a, an and some le, la, l' and les -- the French equivalents for the mon, ma and mes -- the French equivalents for my t' and te -- the French equivalents for you, yourself
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Most Used French words 1-50 Rank
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French word
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{audio}media/mp3/common1.mp3{/audio} être to be; being
verb, auxiliary verb
2.
{audio}/media/mp3/common2.mp3{/audio} avoir to have
3.
{audio}/media/mp3/common3.mp3{/audio} je I
4.
{audio}/media/mp3/common4.mp3{/audio} de of, from, by, than, in, with preposition (see #28)
5.
{audio}/media/mp3/common5.mp3{/audio} ne
not
6.
{audio}/media/mp3/common6.mp3{/audio} pas
not; step, pace
verb, auxiliary ver personal pronoun
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{audio}/media/mp3/common7.mp3{/audio} le
the; him, it (refering to a m
8.
{audio}/media/mp3/common8.mp3{/audio} la
the; her, it (refering to a
9.
{audio}/media/mp3/common9.mp3{/audio} tu
you
10.
{audio}/media/mp3/common10.mp3{/audio} vous you, yourself
11.
{audio}/media/mp3/common11.mp3{/audio} il
he, it
12.
{audio}/media/mp3/common12.mp3{/audio} et
and
13.
{audio}/media/mp3/common13.mp3{/audio} à
in, to, with
14.
{audio}/media/mp3/common14.mp3{/audio} un
a, an; one (used before a
15.
---
the (used instead of ''le'' o
16.
{audio}/media/mp3/common16.mp3{/audio} qui
who, whom; that, which
17.
{audio}/media/mp3/common17.mp3{/audio} aller
to go
18.
{audio}/media/mp3/common18.mp3{/audio} les
the; them (referring to a p
19.
{audio}/media/mp3/common19.mp3{/audio} en
in, into, to, as
20.
{audio}/media/mp3/common20.mp3{/audio} ça
this, that (see #203)
21.
{audio}/media/mp3/common21.mp3{/audio} faire
to do, make
22.
{audio}/media/mp3/common22.mp3{/audio} tout
all, everything, any; very,
l'
personal pronoun
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{audio}/media/mp3/common23.mp3{/audio} on
we, you
24.
{audio}/media/mp3/common24.mp3{/audio} que
that; what; which
25.
{audio}/media/mp3/common25.mp3{/audio} ce
this, that (see #73, 99, 20
26.
{audio}/media/mp3/common26.mp3{/audio} une
a, an; one (used before a
27.
{audio}/media/mp3/common27.mp3{/audio} mes
my (used before plural no
28.
---
of, from, by, than, in, with
29.
{audio}/media/mp3/common29.mp3{/audio} pour
for
30.
{audio}/media/mp3/common30.mp3{/audio} se
himself, herself, themselv
31.
{audio}/media/mp3/common31.mp3{/audio} des
some (used before a plur
32.
{audio}/media/mp3/common32.mp3{/audio} dire
to say, tell
33.
{audio}/media/mp3/common33.mp3{/audio} pouvoir
can, to be able to
34.
{audio}/media/mp3/common34.mp3{/audio} vouloir
to want
35.
{audio}/media/mp3/common35.mp3{/audio} mais
but
36.
{audio}/media/mp3/common36.mp3{/audio} me
me, myself
37.
{audio}/media/mp3/common37.mp3{/audio} nous
we, us
d'
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38.
{audio}/media/mp3/common38.mp3{/audio} dans
in, into
39.
{audio}/media/mp3/common39.mp3{/audio} elle
she, it (refers to a feminin
40.
{audio}/media/mp3/common40.mp3{/audio} savoir
to know; languagedaily d
41.
{audio}/media/mp3/common41.mp3{/audio} du
(de + le/les) = of the, from
42.
{audio}/media/mp3/common42.mp3{/audio} où
where, that
43.
---
y
it, there
44.
---
t'
you, yourself (shortened
45.
{audio}/media/mp3/common45.mp3{/audio} bien
well, very; good
46.
{audio}/media/mp3/common46.mp3{/audio} voir
to see
47.
{audio}/media/mp3/common47.mp3{/audio} plus
more
48.
{audio}/media/mp3/common48.mp3{/audio} non
no
49.
{audio}/media/mp3/common49.mp3{/audio} te
you, yourself
50.
{audio}/media/mp3/common50.mp3{/audio} mon
my (used before a mascu
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We are aware of French lists that rank 'de' as the most frequently occurring word. The position of words varies from one frequency list to another.This list ranks lemmas according to the body of movie sub-titles. An alternative ranking of lemmas according to the corpus of books would bring slightly different results.
The frequency list is based on original work of Boris New, Christophe Pallier, 2001 L'équipe de Lexique. The voice is by Vion Nicolas, a speaker from Région Parisienne, living in Paris. Audio copyright © Vion Nicolas 2006 CC-BY.
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