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French A1 Vocabulary Flashcards: 60 Free Cards With Audio

These 60 free French A1 flashcards cover all 23 topics tested at A1 level, at least two words each, from la boucherie and l'addition to déménager and le télétravail. Every card carries native audio, flips to reveal the French, and comes back on a spaced repetition schedule. They run in your browser, with no account and nothing to download.

By Camille, native French teacherUpdated 20 August 2026Free, no account required

Card 1 of 60

Les loisirs

music

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Français

la musique

What counts as A1 vocabulary

A1 is the first level of the CEFR, and it is defined by situations rather than by grammar: introducing yourself, ordering in a café, asking where the station is, describing your family. The list of words that goes with it is short enough to learn in a few months, and specific enough that guessing from English lets you down. Une librairie is a bookshop, and the library is la bibliothèque.

The paid deck behind this page holds 491 cards across 23 topics. The 60 here give you two from every one of those topics and three from the fourteen biggest, so this is a cross-section of the whole level rather than its first page. It is enough to study with for a few weeks before you decide whether the rest is worth $15.

How to work through the 60 cards

Read the English, say the French out loud, then flip. Guessing and getting it wrong is what makes a word stick, so resist flipping early. The card is not a reading exercise.

Use the Listen button on the French side. That audio is a recording, not your browser's speech engine, and at A1 that difference matters: you are still building the sounds of the language, and a synthetic English accent reading French will teach you the wrong ones.

Answer honestly. Know it pushes a card further away on a widening schedule, 1 day, then 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. Still learning brings it straight back to the front. Ten minutes a day will beat an hour on Sunday, because the schedule only works if you come back.

Where these words turn up in the DELF A1 and the TCF

The DELF A1 has four papers of 25 points each, and all four draw on this same everyday vocabulary. Le prénom belongs to the identity form in the writing paper. L'addition and la boucherie run through the shopping and restaurant role-plays of the oral. Le petit déjeuner compris is booking-a-room language, which is a standard reading text.

Soixante-dix is where the listening paper catches people out, because prices, phone numbers and times are read at full speed and the French seventy is built out of sixty and ten. It is on this list for exactly that reason.

The 60 words on this page

Grouped by topic, so you can read them straight through or come back to one theme. Every line is a card in the deck above, and every one of them has audio.

Les loisirs

la musique
music
la marche, marcher
walking / to walk

Les pays et nationalités

l'Espagne – espagnol / espagnole
Spain – Spanish
le Sénégal – sénégalais / sénégalaise
Senegal – Senegalese
le Maroc – marocain / marocaine
Morocco – Moroccan

L'identité et les coordonnées

le prénom
first name
la biographie
biography

Les nombres

soixante-dix
seventy (70)
quatre-vingt-dix
ninety (90)

La ville et les lieux

la rue
street
la bibliothèque
library
la fontaine
fountain

La famille

la grand-mère
grandmother
la soeur
sister
la nièce
niece

Les professions

le professeur / la professeure
teacher
l'informaticien / l'informaticienne
IT specialist

Les commerces et les aliments

la boucherie
butcher's shop
le poisson
fish
la tomate
tomato

Le restaurant et les repas

l'addition (f.)
bill
l'eau (f.)
water
l'omelette (f.)
omelette

Les transports

en train
by train
les transports en commun (m.)
public transport

Les vĂŞtements et les accessoires

la chemise
shirt
le pull
jumper / sweater
le chapeau
hat

Les couleurs et les matières

vert
green
rose
pink

La météo

la pluie
rain
l'orage (m.)
storm / thunderstorm

Les objets du quotidien

le téléphone (portable) / le smartphone
mobile phone / smartphone
le cadre photo
photo frame
la valise
suitcase

L'heure et les activités

déjeuner
to have lunch
faire la cuisine
to cook
bricoler
to do DIY

La description physique et le caractère

intelligent, intelligente
intelligent
grand, grande ≠ petit, petite
tall ≠ short
les cheveux frisés ≠ raides
curly ≠ straight hair

Le logement

déménager
to move house
la cuisine
kitchen
le lit
bed

Le corps et la santé

le bras
arm
la grippe
flu
le paracétamol
paracetamol

Le sport

la course Ă  pied
running
la musculation
weight training
le certificat médical
medical certificate

Les vacances et les voyages

le petit déjeuner compris
breakfast included
la chambre double
double room

La nature

l'arbre (m.)
tree
l'herbe (f.)
grass

L'université et les études

faire un stage
to do an internship
le doctorat
doctorate / PhD
le commerce
business / trade

L'entreprise et le travail

le télétravail
remote working / working from home
le restaurant d'entreprise
company restaurant
préparer une réunion
to prepare a meeting

The other 431 cards

You have just worked through all 23 topics of the deck. Vocabulaire A1 Flashcards is the same deck with all 491 of them, and it is a file rather than a page.

  • 491 cards, 23 topics

    Filter down to one theme and drill it, instead of taking the level as one block.

  • Works with no connection

    One file you download and keep. It opens on a plane, on the metro, on a laptop with the wifi off.

  • Audio on every single card

    The same recorded French voice you have been listening to here, on all 491.

  • A Due today tab

    The deck works out what is coming up for review and hands you just those cards.

See Vocabulaire A1 Flashcards, $15

The other levels, all free

Same 60 card format, same recorded audio, same spaced repetition. Move up when the cards here stop making you think.

  1. French A1 vocabularyyou are here
  2. French A2 vocabulary
  3. French B1 vocabulary
  4. French B2 vocabulary

Studying for the DELF Junior instead? The same levels exist with a teenager's vocabulary: DELF Junior A1 vocabulary, DELF Junior A2 vocabulary, DELF Junior B1 vocabulary.

Frequently asked questions

Are these flashcards really free?

Yes. The 60 cards on this page run in your browser with their audio, no account, no email address. The paid deck exists for the other 431 cards and for offline use, not to unlock this page.

Do I need an account to keep my progress?

No. Progress is saved in your browser on this device, so you can close the tab and pick the session back up later. Studying on your phone and on your laptop gives you two separate sets of progress, since nothing is stored on our side.

Is the audio a real French voice?

It is the same recorded audio as the paid deck, made with Google's neural French voices. It is not your browser's built-in speech, which changes from one device to the next and often reads French with an English accent.

What do I get in the full deck that is not here?

Quantity and portability. Vocabulaire A1 holds 491 cards over the same 23 topics, with a filter per topic and a Due today tab, and it is one file you download and keep. It opens with no connection, which is what makes it work on a plane or a commute.

Is A1 the right level for me?

A1 suits you if you are starting French, or have done less than roughly 100 hours. If you can already order food and talk about your weekend without assembling the sentence in your head first, start at A2 instead.

Want someone to practise these with?

I'm Camille, a native French teacher. Vocabulary you have only ever read stays passive. In a lesson you have to use it, which is when it becomes yours.