🇫🇷 In this video, I present the 25 essential French vocabulary words you need to know if you want to learn French. This video is aimed at beginners learning French. The French expressions and vocabulary presented are easy to memorize and are useful in everyday life in France.

These French words and expressions will help you speak French better. Don't hesitate to use them as often as possible. Speaking French well means practicing as often as possible, so don't hesitate to do so, even if you make mistakes.

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Hello everyone, hope you're well.

I'm back today with a new video on learning French.

Today, we're going to take a look at 25 expressions, 25 words in French that are essential for beginners to know.

The expressions will be very useful if you come to France or to a French-speaking country for vacations, for work or if you plan to come and live in a French-speaking country.

Before you start, remember to activate the English or French subtitles to help you understand all the words in the video.

Let's start right away with the first word.

It may sound simple, but it's good morning.

Bonjour is simply hello in English. When you arrive at the bakery, you have to say hello.

When you send an email, you say hello.

When you pass someone in your building, you say hello, a word we use all day long.

The second expression we're going to look at is bonne journée.

The English equivalent. It could be have a good day.

We use it many times a day.

When you leave a place or finish an email, or when you leave a conversation with someone, you can say good day.

In the evening, we will say goodnight.

In the morning or during the day, we say good morning, in the evening we say good evening.

When you leave someone in the evening to go home, or leave a shop, or end a conversation or an email, you can say good evening.

Have good evening. Have a good evening.

When you leave a place or someone, you say goodbye.

Au revoir in English is goodbye or Bye Bye.

Another essential word to know in French, as you probably know, but politeness is really very important in France.

This word, remember it well, is thank you.

Merci is simply thank you.

Very often, we will also say thank you so much. Thank you so much.

It's to thank someone for doing something for you.

He did you a favor, he gave you something, for example in a shop at the bakery, when the baker gives you your bread you say thank you very much. Have a nice day. Good bye!

And you can leave the bakery.

S'il vous plaît. The English equivalent of S'il vous plaît might be, please.

It's usually used at the end of a sentence when you're asking someone for something.

For example, at the restaurant, I'd like a Coke, please.

It's a polite phrase added at the end of sentences.

You can also use it to call out to someone. Again, if you're in a restaurant and want to call the waiter, you can say please.

You can hear my voice rising, I'm speaking a little more interrogatively. Please. You use this tone of voice to challenge someone.

When you have caught his attention you can make your request.

Finally, you can also use s'il vous plaît in French instead of voici.

When the waiter returns with your Coke, he can say please to express that he has answered your request.

You're welcome. You are welcome! I beg you again, it's a polite greeting. It has the same meaning as you're welcome.

For example, if you're at the hairdresser's, you can say thank you, I love my new haircut.

The hairdresser can answer Please.

I'm sorry.

Pardon is the English equivalent of Sorry. Depending on how you say the word pardon, the meaning can be different.

If someone speaks to you and you don't understand what they're saying in French, you can say pardon in a slightly rising voice.

When you express the word forgiveness in this way. It means you haven't understood.

What's that? And the person will probably repeat, he'll understand that you didn't understand.

You can also use pardon, if you say it in a more neutral tone, with a voice that descends more, it's to apologize.

For example, if you're walking down the street and want someone to move over, you can say sorry.

It's a way of apologizing, of saying I'm sorry so that the person shifts.

You can also use pardon, simply to apologize and say you are sorry.

If you've bumped into someone without meaning to.

You're walking and you've bumped into someone. You can say sorry, I'm sorry.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excusez-moi or excuse-moi if you're addressing someone you know on a first-name basis, excusez-moi if you're addressing the person on a first-name basis, which is the polite form in French.

Excuse me, it's a bit of a synonym for forgiveness, I'm sorry.

Like pardon, depending on the intonation, excusez-moi can mean different things.

Again, if someone is talking to you and you don't understand what they're saying.

If your voice rises, excuse me, it means you haven't understood or heard, and the person will certainly repeat.

You can also use excuse me if your voice goes down.

Excuse me. To report you, for example, in a restaurant.

A bit like please, you can say excuse me to call out to the waiter, to get his attention, and again like pardon, you can use it to say you're sorry if you bump into someone on the street or want to pass.

Excuse me, I'd like to get through. So you see, excuse me and sorry, it's quite close.

But like sorry and excuse me in English.

The next word you may already know is yes.

Yes, it's simply yes!

You want to say you agree or answer in the affirmative. Yes.

Let's move on to no.

No, as you've probably guessed, it's the equivalent of no.

If someone offers you something and you don't want it, it's more polite in French to say non merci rather than simply non.

For example, if a friend asks you "Would you like a glass of water?

Instead, say no thanks rather than just no.

That's not very polite. So be sure to say no thank you when someone makes you an offer.

My name is Elisabeth.

My name is Elisabeth.

My name is, you use it, followed by your first name.

It's a great way to introduce yourself.

I am.

I am, I am, it comes from the verb to be in the first person singular.

It's the most common verb in French, along with avoir.

I am, you can preface that with your first name too.

I'm Elisabeth, but also a profession, an adjective, your nationality.

I'm Elisabeth, I'm Belgian, I'm a French teacher and I'm very happy today.

I am also quite short. I am 1.64 meters tall.

You see, I am and you can make many sentences with this expression.

How are you? How are you ? How are you ?

You simply want to ask someone how they're doing.

If he's doing well, if he's doing badly, if he's in a good mood, if he's in a bad mood.

How are you? You use it if you're on a first-name basis with the person you're talking to.

How are you going to use it if you're polite to the person, with someone you don't know very well or someone, for example, higher up in the hierarchy, at work, someone you respect.

In general, older people in France are called "vous".

I'm fine.

I'm fine, that's the answer to how are you? How are you?

I feel good, I'm happy, I'm in a good mood.

J'ai 30 ans. I am thirty years old.

This expression, I'm ... years old, you use it to talk about your age.

Be careful, because in English, we use the verb to be. I am.

In French, it's the verb avoir.

I have and I haven't. We saw the verb to be, I am, a little earlier, so let's move on to the verb to have.

Once again, it's a phrase you're going to use a lot in your everyday life, to talk about the simple things in life.

I have a car or I don't have a car, I go to work by bus. I have, I haven't.

I would like. I would like.

It's the conditional form of the verb to want.

In French, you should say je voudrais and not je veux to be polite. I would like a coffee. I would like a coffee.

J'aime, I like.

J'aime is a formula at the beginning of a sentence that's also very useful for introducing yourself, expressing your personality and talking about what you like.

For example, you can say I like following food, following an activity, following people. For example, I can say I like sports, I like dogs and I like Donuts.

Je ne comprends pas, I don't understand.

This sentence will be very useful if you are a beginner in French and you are going to a French-speaking country.

I don't understand, you can say it to someone you are talking to to tell them that you don't understand what they are saying.

It's difficult for you to understand the French sentence someone has just said to you. I don't understand it.

Bon appétit, bon appétit. It's a phrase we say a lot in France. As you probably know, the French love to eat, and the culture of food, especially good food, is very important in France.

When you are about to start a meal, you can say bon appétit.

It's the English equivalent of enjoy your meal.

Still in the same lexical field after bon appétit, let's go to health.

Santé is a word we also hear a lot in France. It's when you're about to start drinking, you clink glasses between two or more people, and you say santé!

It's the English equivalent of cheers.

I don't know. I don't know.

It's a phrase that can also be very useful to you.

Because when someone asks you a question, for example, if someone asks you for directions in the street, you can say I don't know.

Or when someone asks you a question to which you don't have the answer, you can say I don't know.

And finally, let's move on to the last expression you absolutely must know if you're a beginner in French.

It looks like goodbye.

When we say goodbye, it means you're leaving.

But when you say see you later, you're leaving, but you'll be back or you'll see the person again later in the day. See you later.

That's it for this video. 25 essential expressions if you're new to French.

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