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The 100 most common adjectives in French 🇫🇷
French adjectives ranked by how often they appear, each with its translation and an example sentence. Press the speaker to hear a word.
| # | French | English | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bien | good, all right, great | |
| 2 | bon | good | Cette meuf est fin bonne !That chick is fine as hell! |
| 3 | petit | small | Certaines personnes sont vraiment petites Ă propos des plus petites choses.Some people are really petty about the smallest things. |
| 4 | sûr | sure, certain | |
| 5 | seul | lonely | |
| 6 | vrai | true | Est-il vrai que vous ayez dit qu’il a besoin de notre aide ?Is it true that you said he needs our help? |
| 7 | autre | other | Donnez-moi un autre exemple.Give me another example. |
| 8 | beau | handsome, fine, attractive | Il fait beau.It is nice out. |
| 9 | juste | fair, just | Elle n’est que trop juste en un si grand malheurIt is only too appropriate in such misfortune |
| 10 | grand | big, great, grand | Il est grand comment ?How tall is he ? |
| 11 | mort | dead | Le roi est mort.The king is dead. |
| 12 | dernier | last | Il est parti le mois dernier.He left last month. |
| 13 | premier | first | Le premier élément de la liste est un zéro.The first element of the list is zero. |
| 14 | fou | mad, crazy | |
| 15 | prĂŞt | ready | Tenez-vous prĂŞt pour partir dans deux heures.Be ready to leave in two hours. |
| 16 | pendant | hanging | |
| 17 | jeune | young | Il n’aime plus cette personne qu’il aimait il y a dix ans. Je crois bien : elle n’est plus la même ni lui non plus. Il était jeune et elle aussi ; elle est tout autre. Il l’aimerait peut-être encore telle qu’elle était alors.He no longer loves this person whom loved ten years ago. I quite believe it. She is no longer the same, nor is he. He was young and she also ; she is quite different. He would perhaps love her yet, if she were what she was then. |
| 18 | vieux | old | Au temps de sa pire misère, il remarquait que les jeunes filles se retournaient quand il passait, et il se sauvait ou se cachait, la mort dans l’âme. Il pensait qu’elles le regardaient pour ses vieux habits et qu’elles en riaient, le fait est qu’elles le regardaient pour sa grâce et qu’elles en rêvaient.At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. |
| 19 | désolé | desolate | |
| 20 | gros | big, thick, fat | Mon petit copain a des gros doigts.My boyfriend has fat fingers. |
| 21 | mauvais | bad | Il a choisi la mauvaise réponse.He chose the wrong response. |
| 22 | heureux | happy | |
| 23 | chaque | each | |
| 24 | nouveau | new, novel | |
| 25 | important | important | Il est important de se brosser les dents.It is important to brush your teeth. |
| 26 | joli | pretty, cute | |
| 27 | plein | full, full up | |
| 28 | cher | dear | |
| 29 | possible | possible | |
| 30 | gentil | helpful, kind | Elle reçut une petite tape gentille sur les fesses.She received an amiable little slap on the buttocks. |
| 31 | instant | pressing, insistent | |
| 32 | dur | hard, tough | |
| 33 | content | content, satisfied, pleased | |
| 34 | pauvre | poor | |
| 35 | chéri | cherished, beloved | |
| 36 | fort | strong, powerful | |
| 37 | long | long | |
| 38 | propre | own | |
| 39 | prochain | upcoming | |
| 40 | facile | easy, simple | "Certes, ce n’est pas facile d’avoir 20 ans en 2020", concède Frank Delvau, reprenant l’expression utilisée par Emmanuel Macron, la veille."Certainly, it's not easy to be twenty years old in 2020," Frank Delvau conceded, picking up the expression used by Emmanuel Macron the day before. |
| 41 | malade | ill, unwell, sick | Elle est si malade qu’elle ne peut pas venir.She is so ill that she cannot come. |
| 42 | super | superb, great | |
| 43 | difficile | difficult | |
| 44 | sale | dirty | Le prof est capable de me fiche une sale note rien que parce qu’il m’a aperçue en ville le mercredi.The teacher can give me a bad grade just because he saw me in town on Wednesday. |
| 45 | noir | black in colour | |
| 46 | drôle | funny, amusing | C’est drôle, mais c’est comme ça...It's weird, but that's how it is... |
| 47 | grave | serious | Quatre de ces voyelles sont graves: a, o, u, œu.Four of these are vowels are back [vowels], a, o, u, [and] œu |
| 48 | simple | single | comptabilité en partie simple et doublesingle-entry and double-entry bookkeping |
| 49 | différent | different | |
| 50 | génial | ingenious, characteristic of a genius | |
| 51 | libre | free, at liberty | |
| 52 | pareil | such | Je n’ai jamais vu une chose pareille.I've never seen such a thing. |
| 53 | bizarre | bizarre, odd, strange, funny | Je me sens bizarre.I feel strange. |
| 54 | froid | cold | |
| 55 | normal | normal | |
| 56 | vivant | alive | |
| 57 | impossible | impossible | |
| 58 | clair | clear | On est des étoiles dans ce ciel bleu clair et on mettra les voiles quand on pourra le faire.We are stars in the light blue sky and we'll set sail when we can. |
| 59 | faux | false, untrue | |
| 60 | sujet | subject | |
| 61 | tranquille | calm, quiet, tranquil, still, peaceful, serene | |
| 62 | blanc | white color | |
| 63 | journal | That is relative to each day, journal | |
| 64 | sérieux | serious | |
| 65 | sauf | safe | |
| 66 | amoureux | in love | Je suis amoureux de toiI'm in love with you |
| 67 | calme | calm | |
| 68 | certain | certain, for certain, indubitably | Il est certain qu’il viendra.It is certain that he will arrive. |
| 69 | secret | secret | |
| 70 | triste | sad | |
| 71 | rouge | red | |
| 72 | dangereux | dangerous | |
| 73 | ennemi | enemy | |
| 74 | idiot | idiotic, stupid | |
| 75 | intérieur | interior | |
| 76 | doux | sweet | Ainsi emporté par de si douces pensées et par l’ineffable attrait qu’il y trouvait, il se hâta de mettre son désir en pratique.So taken away was he by such sweet thoughts and by the ineffable attraction that he found in them, he hurried to put his desire into practice. |
| 77 | magnifique | magnificent, splendid, superb | |
| 78 | terrible | terrible | Mais à peine se vit-il en chemin qu’une pensée terrible l’assaillit, et telle, que peu s’en fallut qu’elle ne lui fît abandonner l’entreprise commencée.But scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started. |
| 79 | exact | exact, precise | |
| 80 | étrange | strange | |
| 81 | bas | low | |
| 82 | chaud | warm, hot | |
| 83 | spécial | special | |
| 84 | sympa | nice, likeable | |
| 85 | compris | understood | |
| 86 | est | east | |
| 87 | merveilleux | marvelous, brilliant | |
| 88 | fier | proud | |
| 89 | haut | high | |
| 90 | ferme | firm | |
| 91 | capable | able, capable | |
| 92 | excellent | excellent, splendid | |
| 93 | entier | whole | |
| 94 | incroyable | incredible | |
| 95 | riche | rich | Ses parents étant riches, il se permet de porter des vêtements à la modeHis parents are rich, so he can wear fashionable clothes |
| 96 | ancien | old, former, ex- | Mon ancien petit ami m’a plaquée.My ex-boyfriend ditched me. |
| 97 | inutile | unused | |
| 98 | gauche | left | |
| 99 | stupide | stupid | Un hamster stupide se balade au bord d’une rivière. Tout à coup, il aperçoit son copain le hamster crétin de l’autre côté de la rive. Il veut le rejoindre et l’appelle :- Eh ! Hamster crétin, comment faire pour passer de l’autre côté de la rivière ?- Hamster stupide… T’es déjà de l’autre côté !A stupid hamster is walking on the riverside. All of sudden, he sees his buddy, the cretin hamster, on the other side of the bank. He wants to join him and calls him:- Hey! Cretin hamster, how can I get to the other side of the river?- Stupid hamster… Yer awready on the other side! |
| 100 | bleu | blue |