Most Common French Words - Top 100 French Words

By Laura K. Lawless, About.com Guide

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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:

Gougenheim 2.00 - Fréquences orales et de production http://www.lexique.org/public/gougenheim.php