You’ve nailed the polite basics – now you want to say more than bonjour and merci. A2 French is where sentences start linking together and you can actually describe your weekend, plan an outing, or survive a café order without a menu translation app. This CEFR-aligned list hands you around 993 words that sit just above survival level, so you can move from memorising to communicating.
Every entry in the table gives you a straightforward meaning, a natural example sentence that shows the word in action, and a play button because your ears need practice too. No dusty textbook fossils – only vocabulary you’re likely to meet in real conversations, signs, and French media.
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| Word | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| satisfaire | Verb | satisfy, meet with, content, gratify |
| sauf | Adjective | safe |
| sauter | Verb | jump, leap, spring, skip |
| sauvage | Adjective | wild |
| sec | Other | dry, dried |
| secours | Noun | rescue, assistance, help, aid, succour, succor |
| secrétaire | Noun | secretary |
| sécurité | Noun | confidence, safety, security |
| sein | Noun | chest |
| semblable | Adjective | alike, like, similar, allied |
| sembler | Verb | appear, seem, look, act, look like |
| sentier | Noun | path, pathway, track, trail |
| sentiment | Noun | sentiment, feeling |
| séparer | Verb | divide, separate, segregate, split |
| sera | Noun | Sera |
| sergent | Noun | sergeant |
| sérieux | Adjective | serious, earnest |
| serrer | Verb | squeeze, strech, wind up, rack, strain, stress, tense, tighten, oppress, pinch, squash, lock up, shut up, put away, stow, confine, enclose, condense, shake hands, keep, stay |
| serrer | Verb | squeeze, strech, wind up, rack, strain, stress, tense, tighten, oppress, pinch, squash, lock up, shut up, put away, stow, confine, enclose, condense, shake hands, keep, stay |
| serrer | Verb | squeeze, strech, wind up, rack, strain, stress, tense, tighten, oppress, pinch, squash, lock up, shut up, put away, stow, confine, enclose, condense, shake hands, keep, stay |
| seuil | Noun | doorstep, threshold, sill |
| siècle | Noun | century, centennial |
| siège | Noun | seat |
| signe | Noun | sign |
| signer | Verb | sign |
