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French flashcards are perfect for vocabulary with genders, verb forms and set phrases, and practice quizzes check you can use them correctly in sentences. Short daily sessions beat long cramming sessions for any language.

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Core french topics

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Levels

What does french cover at each level?

Beginner (CEFR A1–A2)

Everyday vocabulary, greetings, numbers, avoir and être, the present tense and the passé composé.

Intermediate (B1–B2, typical of upper school exams)

The imperfect, future, conditional and subjunctive, opinions and arguments, and topics such as the environment and society.

Advanced (C1 and above)

Register and idiom, complex structures, and literature, film and current affairs in French.

Courses differ by country and exam board, so check your own specification. Our exam board guides cover 23 countries and curricula.

Exam boards

Exam board guides for french

French is examined by 6 of the boards and qualifications we cover. Each guide explains grading, exam dates and what to know, with sets matched to that board.

Revision

How should you revise french?

Learn nouns with le or la

Gender is easiest to learn with the word itself: la table, le livre, la plage. Put the article on every vocabulary card.

Make cards both ways

French to English builds recognition; English to French builds the recall you need for speaking and writing.

Learn the être verbs as a set

Learn the verbs that take être in the passé composé as one group, and remember that every reflexive verb does too.

Practise in sentences

Agreement and tenses only make sense in context. Use quiz questions with full sentences, not just single words.

Watch out

What are the most common french mistakes?

  • Mistake: Je suis quinze ans.

    Correct: Age uses avoir in French: j'ai quinze ans (literally, I have fifteen years).

  • Mistake: Every verb uses avoir in the passé composé.

    Correct: Most do, but a group of verbs, mostly of movement (aller, venir, partir…), and all reflexive verbs use être, and their past participle agrees with the subject.

  • Mistake: Actuellement means actually.

    Correct: Actuellement means currently or at the moment. Actually is en fait.

Examples

Sample french flashcards

One idea per card, a clear question, a short answer. This is the style every generated set follows.

French

How do you say "I went to the cinema yesterday"?

Back

Je suis allé(e) au cinéma hier.

French

le lendemain

Back

the next day

French

What is the nous form of aller in the present tense?

Back

nous allons (we go)

FAQ

French: questions

How do I remember French genders?

Always learn a noun together with le or la, and say both aloud. Some endings help too: most nouns ending in -tion are feminine, for example.

Which French tenses should I learn first?

The present tense, then the passé composé and the near future (aller + infinitive). Add the imperfect, future and conditional once those are solid.

How often should I practise French vocabulary?

A little every day. Ten minutes of flashcards daily, with yesterday's words mixed in, beats an hour once a week.

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