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A1 French False Friends

Phrase, Pain: 2 French False Friends

phrase · pain

1:02 min video · 3 sentences · 4 key words

Transcript with English

Hide the English to test yourself.
  1. Léa écrit une phrase.Léa writes a sentence.
  2. Hugo achète du pain.Hugo buys bread.
  3. Le matin, je mange du pain.In the morning, I eat bread.

About this lesson

Two French false friends, la phrase (sentence) and le pain (bread), are learned through short example sentences and the real French words for the English look-alikes.

How to practise

  1. Guess what each word means before the answer shows: it does NOT mean what it looks like.
  2. Repeat the example out loud in the Your turn pause, then learn the word that really means the English one.
  3. Take the which-one-fits check at the end, and comment another false friend you know.

Key words

FrenchEnglishLevel
la phrasesentence
l'expressionphrase
le painbread
la douleurpain

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