Glossary - Glossaire
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cacao (m) - cocoa
café (m) – café, coffee
Cameroun (m) - Cameroon
canapé (m) – sofa, settee
capitale (f) – capital (city)
carré (m) - square
casser – to break
cela (ça) - that
cent (m) – a hundred
centre (m) - centre
centre ville (m) – town/city centre
cercle (m) - circle
céréale (f) - cereal
cerise (f) - cherry
chaise (f) - chair
chambre à coucher (f) - bedroom
champagne (m) – champagne
champignon (m) - mushroom
chaque - each
charpente de bois, à (f) – timber frame
chaud(e) - hot
chaumière (f) – thatched house/cottage
cheval (m) – horse
cheville -f) - ankle
chez – at the house of
chien (m) – dog
Chine (f) – China
chinois(e) - Chinese
chocolat (m) - chocolate
choisir – to choose
chose (f) - thing
ciel (m) – sky
cinéma (m) - cinema
cinq - five
cinquante - fifty
citron (m) - lemon
classe (f) - class
coca (m) – cola
collier (m) – necklace
comment - how
commercial(e) - commercial
commode (f) – chest of drawers
composer – to compose
compris(e) – included, understood
conduire – to drive
confiture (f) - jam
content(e) - happy
cornichon (m) – pickle
corps (m) - body
correspondant (m) – pen friend
côté, à côté de – side, next to
Côte d'Ivoire (f) – Ivory coast
couleur (f) - colour
couloir (m) – corridor
courses (f) - shopping
cousin (m) - cousin
couteau (m) – knife
cravate (f) - tie
croissant (m) – croissant, crescent
cuillère (f) - spoon
cuisine (f) - kitchen
Additional information
(f) = feminine
noun (m) =
masculine
noun
(pl) = plural
Adjectives usually have different masculine and feminine forms. If the
feminine is formed by adding one or two letters to the masculine, it is
shown in this way:
petit(e) or blanc(he) – so blanc is the
form of white used with masculine nouns, and blanche is the form of
white used with feminine nouns.
If more of a change is required to form the feminine adjective, the
masculine and feminine forms are shown separately, for example:
nouveau, nouvelle – new (nouveau is used with masculine
nouns, and nouvelle is used with feminine nouns).