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A1 French Vocabulary Lesson

3 Words for Clothes

Les vêtements

2:28 min video · 9 sentences · 3 key words

Transcript with English

Hide the English to test yourself.
  1. Léa achète une veste.Léa is buying a jacket.
  2. Elle aime la veste bleue.She likes the blue jacket.
  3. Ce n’est pas une veste chère.It is not an expensive jacket.
  4. Hugo prend un pantalon gris.Hugo takes a pair of grey trousers.
  5. Est-ce que le pantalon est grand ?Is the pair of trousers big?
  6. Non, mais je n’ai pas de pantalon noir.No, but I don't have black trousers.
  7. Il fait froid, Léa met son écharpe.It is cold, Léa puts on her scarf.
  8. Hugo n’a pas d’écharpe.Hugo doesn't have a scarf.
  9. Tu veux mon écharpe rouge ?Do you want my red scarf?

About this lesson

Three useful French clothing words, each shown in a short everyday moment with sentences to repeat and a common learner mistake.

How to practise

  1. Learn each word on its card: the word and what it means.
  2. Repeat every example out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause, then check the Don't say card: how not to use the word.
  3. At the end, take the quick quiz on the theme's words.

Les vêtements Clothes

WordMeaningDon't say
la vestejacket feminine noun, acheter une vesteJe mets le veste. ✗ · Je mets la veste. ✓ Veste is feminine, so use la or une, never le.
le pantalontrousers masculine noun, singular in FrenchMes pantalons sont grands. ✗ · Mon pantalon est grand. ✓ For one pair, French uses a singular noun: un pantalon.
l'écharpescarf feminine noun, mettre une écharpeJe cherche mon écharpe, le rouge. ✗ · Je cherche mon écharpe, la rouge. ✓ Écharpe is feminine, so any article or pronoun for it is la.

Key words

FrenchEnglishLevel
la vestejacket
le pantalontrousers
l'écharpescarf

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