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A1 French Vocabulary Lesson

3 Words for the Kitchen

La cuisine

2:17 min video · 9 sentences · 3 key words

Transcript with English

Hide the English to test yourself.
  1. Inès a une poêle.Inès has a frying pan.
  2. La poêle est très chaude.The pan is very hot.
  3. Tu as une grande poêle ?Do you have a big pan?
  4. Karim ouvre le frigo.Karim opens the fridge.
  5. Il y a du fromage dans le frigo.There is cheese in the fridge.
  6. Il n’y a pas de pain.There is no bread.
  7. Je voudrais une fourchette.I would like a fork.
  8. La fourchette est sur la table.The fork is on the table.
  9. Tu n’as pas de fourchette ?Don't you have a fork?

About this lesson

Three everyday kitchen words in French, each shown in a short moment between flatmates, with sentences to repeat and a common learner mistake.

How to practise

  1. Learn each word on its card: the word and what it means.
  2. Repeat every example out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause, then check the Don't say card: how not to use the word.
  3. At the end, take the quick quiz on the theme's words.

La cuisine The kitchen

WordMeaningDon't say
la poêlefrying pan feminine noun, une poêle chaudeVoici le poêle. ✗ · Voici la poêle. ✓ Poêle for cooking is feminine; le poêle means a heating stove.
le frigofridge masculine noun, dans le frigoLe lait est sur le frigo. ✗ · Le lait est dans le frigo. ✓ Inside the fridge is dans, not sur, which means on top.
la fourchettefork feminine noun, une fourchette propreJe mange avec la fourchette de moi. ✗ · Je mange avec ma fourchette. ✓ French uses ma, ton, sa before the noun, not de moi.

Key words

FrenchEnglishLevel
la poêlefrying pan
le frigofridge
la fourchettefork

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