Do you know the most common French words? Here are numbers 51 to 60.
51) parce que because
conjunction
52) avec with
preposition
53) lui him/her
personal pronoun
54) son, sa, ses his/her/its
possessive adjectives
55) enfin then, finally
adverb
56) falloir to be necessary
all about falloir
57) par by
preposition
58) quand when
interrogative adverb, conjunction*
59) vouloir to want
all about vouloir
60) petit small, short
synonyms for petit
Notes
*I would have listed quand as a conjunction and as an adverb separately, but they were combined in the source document.
Words with different forms but the same essential meaning (such as son, sa and ses: masculine, feminine, and plural possessive adjectives) are combined into a single listing.
This list of the most common French words is adapted from the following source:
- Boris New, Christophe Pallier, Ludovic Ferrand, Rafael Matos. (2001) "Une base de données lexicales du français contemporain sur LEXIQUE," L'Année psychologique, 101, 447-462. http://www.lexique.org
