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French Verbs

Can you translate these French verbs into English?
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Last updated: December 15, 2019
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First submittedAugust 30, 2013
Times taken60,544
Average score81.5%
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Français
English
Aimer
Like
Aller
Go
Avoir
Have
Boire
Drink
Chanter
Sing
Compter
Count
Cuisiner
Cook
Français
English
Danser
Dance
Dire
Say
Dormir
Sleep
Écrire
Write
Être
Be
Finir
Finish
Fumer
Smoke
Français
English
Jouer
Play
Lire
Read
Manger
Eat
Nager
Swim
Parler
Speak
Savoir
Know
Sortir
Exit
Français
English
Travailler
Work
Vendre
Sell
Vivre
Live
Voir
See
Vouloir
Want
Voyager
Travel
+13
Level 59
Dec 6, 2013
I only missed three, and it's been nearly 10 years since I studied French in college. Sweet! :)
+18
Level 90
Dec 6, 2013
If you want to know your future, I missed 7 after having taken my last French class 24 years ago (3 years of high school French).
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Level 21
Dec 6, 2013
100 percent. Tres facile
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Level 72
Sep 2, 2019
Spelling "Très" correctly isn't so facile, though, is it? ;)
+11
Level 39
Mar 18, 2021
but not everyone may have accents on their keyboard
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Level 70
Mar 30, 2022
then google translate it and copy it or just install a french keyboard on your laptop or copy the grave accent
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Level 72
Dec 20, 2023
"just install a french keyboard"
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Level 59
Mar 30, 2022
Or you could just write it as tres and not go through there hassle because everyone knows what you mean
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Level 79
Oct 10, 2023
the* hassle
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Level 70
Mar 31, 2022
Alt codes are super handy. Hold the alt key down while typing 0232 and then release the alt key: è. Alt+0233 = é. Here are the rest for the French language. Codes exist for just about any character.

If you've ever done any simple coding, then check out AutoHotKey, and you can not only create/customize your own key codes, but you can also use it automate a ton of other repetitive stuff.

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Level 38
Dec 7, 2013
I barely started taking French 1 this year and I got 17/27
+1
Level 21
Dec 8, 2013
Got 100% in a minute!
+2
Level 86
Dec 9, 2013
Been out of French class for two years, but still got 27/27.
+5
Level 27
Feb 29, 2016
havent been a school for 3 days... Still 27/27 though! XD
+25
Level 60
Aug 25, 2016
So, you were a school once? Weird.
+3
Level 32
Nov 30, 2016
lol
+1
Level 89
Aug 17, 2019
So basically he's like Monster House, except it's a school?
+3
Level 74
Sep 7, 2016
I got 17 and I never studies French! Ce bon. Or something
+2
Level 63
Sep 27, 2016
11/27 with wild guessing. Never had any French.
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Level 75
Nov 23, 2016
Same here. Was able to guess some from the words - cuisiner, chanter, etc., - and just made random guesses for common verbs. But it still took me several tries to finally get them all.
+4
Level 68
Dec 1, 2016
I would have had them all in less than 30 seconds if I hadn't tried to first type "buy" instead of "sell" for "vendre".

Best use of my BA in French ever. :D

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Level 67
Nov 23, 2016
Thanks for accepting "go out" for "sortir", as it is jindeed another correct and very common meaning of the word.
+1
Level 47
Sep 9, 2019
Totaly agree with you
+3
Level 43
Nov 23, 2016
20/27 is alright for never having studied French (thank you romantic languages for all being so similar to each other)
+1
Level 37
Apr 22, 2018
^ Ditto, re: the similarities of romance languages. I know two, yet missed five.
+1
Level 30
Nov 23, 2016
So many quizzes have such high average scores, it's unbelievable.
+2
Level 66
Jan 15, 2019
c'est incredule, ow wait incroyable? something like that haha
+1
Level 17
Dec 7, 2023
little tip: incredible = incroyable and sceptical = incrédule. I hope I helped you ;)
+1
Level 45
Nov 23, 2016
Ce quiz est vraiment trop facile!
+1
Level 54
Nov 23, 2016
ive taken spanish for 4 years now and managed to get 23 so pretty happy with that never taken french in my life
+1
Level 58
Nov 23, 2016
That's easy for me !
+2
Level 67
Nov 23, 2016
It's been 50 years since I studied French, but i torture my poor long-suffering wife with my Pepe le Pew-accented French, which may explain why more of it hasn't disappeared. 27/27 with 3:05 left.
+1
Level 85
Nov 23, 2016
20/27 from watching "Inspector Maigret".
+1
Level 13
Nov 23, 2016
Yes! A 100%
+1
Level 47
Nov 23, 2016
C'etait tres facile
+1
Level 79
Oct 10, 2023
était* très*
+6
Level 65
Nov 23, 2016
I studied French for 3 seconds, 100 years ago and still got 0/27
+2
Level 77
Nov 25, 2018
Formidable!
+1
Level 65
Nov 24, 2016
With my knowledge of Spanish, I got 16, though I probably should have gotten all of them.
+1
Level 32
Nov 27, 2017
I'm learning this in school...just 14
+2
Level 39
Apr 22, 2018
I'm french so it was easy :)
+2
Level 71
May 16, 2018
Yes but you had to know the English translation so for that 'well done'
+1
Level 66
Jan 15, 2019
How could i have missed avoir!! I recognised it, but couldnt remember what it was... (actually tried see and look haha) Also missed drink and count, though i tried calculate for that one. But nager was quite new to me.

23/27 85% only beats 37.4% of the test takers

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Level 65
Aug 17, 2019
>How could i have missed avoir!!

I feel the same with vouloir

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Level 29
Aug 17, 2019
idk how i've ended up here since i'm french myself but oh well
+2
Level 81
Mar 30, 2022
Eh. Easy points. 😊
+1
Level 37
Aug 17, 2019
3:16 left
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Level 64
Aug 17, 2019
you're French..maybe ?
+2
Level 16
Aug 17, 2019
I'm french speaking.... so it was like an english test for me and i Nailed it !! Happy me

P.S. never really studied english :-)

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Level 64
Aug 17, 2019
3:08
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Level 65
Feb 9, 2021
You mean Aimer doesn't mean to Aim, and Sortir doesn't mean to Sort? :(

I tried to use Spanish / Latin knowledge to no avail on some too. Lire sounds like Libra so I thought it would be to weigh. And Compter I would think was to buy like Spanish Comprar.

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Level 86
Mar 30, 2022
To aim -> Viser (I think it's related to the vision).

To sort -> Trier, classer

Lire is rather related to liber (the book), and of course library in English.

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Level 37
Mar 30, 2022
I got 21 but missed sleep, I said sleap....(im not from UK but from the netherlands)
+1
Level 66
Mar 30, 2022
Need to translate twice: from french to German and then back to English. Made it anyway 27/27
+1
Level 65
Mar 30, 2022
or, for non French speakers, this quiz could be renamed "guess a bunch of random English verbs"
+2
Level 38
Mar 30, 2022
Vous voulez coucher avec moi.. ce soir?
+1
Level 17
Dec 7, 2023
Do you know what does it mean?😅
+1
Level 39
Mar 31, 2022
How tf do more people get the word for "smoke" than for "have"?!
+1
Level 88
Mar 31, 2022
In my case it's because I'm more familiar with Spanish. In Spanish "to smoke" is fumar, so that one was easy to guess. However, "to have" is tener, not similar enough to the French word to be a clue for me.
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Level 46
Mar 31, 2022
Woohoo I got them all without a single French lesson! Some guesswork and my basic Spanish knowledge got me through. I want to learn French but the pronunciation is lost on me. Apparently reading it is much easier because when I hear it spoken I can't pick up a single word lol
+1
Level 70
Mar 31, 2022
I loved going to Spanish from French. "You mean, I actually pronounce everything I see written?" French is kind of like learning to play the violin --- beginners tend to sound pretty awful, but it gets better with practice.
+1
Level 40
Apr 1, 2022
Being French and nailing it. I don't know what I'm doing that.
+3
Level 43
Sep 5, 2022
I'm french so the challenge is more about knowing english verbs.
+1
Level 35
May 6, 2023
easy im french
+1
Level 43
May 28, 2023
Missed four verbs :/ Unique quiz - first specific language one I've seen
+1
Level 43
Jul 20, 2023
The answer for savoir wasn't apparent to me until halfway through the quiz when I had the sudden realization that it meant know lol.
+1
Level 63
Dec 19, 2023
I got a friend named Damir, and that's the only reason I got dormir
+1
Level 47
Jan 1, 2024
25/27, forgot a couple of easy ones (compter & voir).