Vocabulaire · niveau découverte
French A1 vocabulary
Reviewed words for absolute beginners — greetings, food, family, and places: the concrete everyday vocabulary your first French conversations are made of. Every entry has a real example sentence and translations in six languages.
l’adresse n.
address
« Je ne connais pas son adresse exacte. »
I don’t know his exact address.
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What A1 means — and what this list covers
A1 is the CEFR “discovery” level (niveau découverte): you can introduce yourself, ask simple questions, and understand slow, clear speech. The fastest lever at this stage is concrete vocabulary — the words for what you see, eat, and do every day — because almost every A1 sentence is built directly from them.
This list is deliberately focused. Rather than a frequency dump, it is a reviewed selection of high-value A1 words — words like l’agenda, l’air, appeler from this list — each published with a natural example sentence and checked translations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Arabic. Each entry passes automated quality gates and human approval before publication.
Noms · nouns 86
Verbes · verbs 24
Adjectifs · adjectives 9
Adverbes · adverbs 12
Expressions · phrases 19
Common questions
How many words do I need for A1?
Around 500 word families are commonly cited for basic A1 communication. You do not memorise them from a list — most arrive through reading and listening. This page gives you the highest-value items to study deliberately; the rest come from stories at your level.
What does CEFR level A1 actually mean?
The Common European Framework calls A1 the “découverte” stage (niveau découverte). Absolute beginner: everyday situations, short sentences, and high-frequency vocabulary.
Are these translations machine-generated?
Drafts are generated with structured tooling, then pass automated quality gates and human approval before anything is published — no entry appears here without review. Found an error? Report it to support@toba.solutions.
What should I study after this list?
Pair the words with the A1 grammar lessons and the A1 stories where the same vocabulary reappears in context. When recognising feels easy, move to the A2 list.
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