A1 French Vocabulary Lesson
3 Words for Clothes
Les vêtements
2:28 min video · 9 sentences · 3 key words
Transcript with English
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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
- Learn each word on its card: the word and what it means.
- 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.
- At the end, take the quick quiz on the theme's words.
Les vêtements Clothes
| Word | Meaning | Don't say |
|---|---|---|
| la veste | jacket feminine noun, acheter une veste | Je mets le veste. ✗ · Je mets la veste. ✓ Veste is feminine, so use la or une, never le. |
| le pantalon | trousers masculine noun, singular in French | Mes pantalons sont grands. ✗ · Mon pantalon est grand. ✓ For one pair, French uses a singular noun: un pantalon. |
| l'écharpe | scarf feminine noun, mettre une écharpe | Je 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
| French | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| la veste | jacket | |
| le pantalon | trousers | |
| l'écharpe | scarf |
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