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Can you translate these common French words into English?
All the answers are a single word
If multiple answers fit, guess the most common. Pedants will be thrown into the Seine.
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French
English
Rouge
Red
Deux
Two
Bon
Good
Très
Very
Bienvenue
Welcome
Fin
End
Année
Year
Merci
Thanks
French
English
Noël
Christmas
Vin
Wine
Sans
Without
Femme
Woman
Après
After
Monde
World
Maison
House
Libre
Free
French
English
Mort
Dead
Tête
Head
Ville
Town
Guerre
War
École
School
Garçon
Boy
Fête
Party
Visage
Face
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107 Recent Comments
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Jan 4, 2015
and village would make a lot of sense for ville...
FractalDoom
+1
Level 43
Jan 4, 2015
Seconding this, it took me a couple tries to get town.
Quizmaster
+29
Level ∞
Jan 4, 2015
Village in French is village.
Arp2600
+5
Level 89
Jan 4, 2015
Absolutely, we use village in french for small localities. Ville can be translated by either town or city.
Cedo
+3
Level 38
Jan 26, 2016
No, for exemple the city of Paris uses and communicates with "ville de Paris". So, you see, not a village...
KCookie
+1
Level 20
Apr 7, 2016
I am currently taking French and we are learning places right now. My teacher told me ville meant downtown
Dechnord
+3
Level 76
Apr 25, 2016
Downtown is centre ville, a part of the town, not the entire town. In France, ville is town. I'm sure, I'm french !

Maybe your teacher's french is like my english...

Or it's perhaps different in Canada, Haïti or anywhere else people speak french (better for your teacher !).

kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Mar 9, 2017
In the language I speak there is no appreciable difference between a town and a village.
divantilya
+23
Level 36
Jul 14, 2017
Hurray for your language. In other languages there are distinctions.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 79
Sep 29, 2019
Are the answers in this quiz in English or some other language? If the latter, then you make an excellent point.
tzhg
+4
Level 58
Aug 17, 2020
A village is smaller than a town.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
Kalbonkers: you just can't accept that you're wrong. Are you 8 years old?
sensfan123
+2
Level 21
Mar 26, 2017
If English is your only language that makes sense... but in French 'ville' is city, and 'village' is village. English has alot 'borrowed' from the French language, so if we were being historically accurate you could say that it should be the other way around :)
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2021
In French, there is even a legal definition of "ville", which is any commune with 2000 or more inhabitants. Colloquially, the definition is less strict, but a village is definitely a more rural place. You'd never call Paris a village (or you'd do so ironically, or to make some specific point).
cashmercury
+2
Level 67
Nov 19, 2021
It's really funny when someone who doesn't speak a language - I mean French in this case - tries to explain which words are a correct answer. Ridiculous...
Tregog
+1
Level 36
Mar 18, 2022
Ville is city or town, though? It's somewhat of a (false) cognate sure, but not really. There's no reason for it to count as village.
JamesWycombe
+1
Level 74
Jan 2, 2026
hôtel de ville, =/= village hall. village = small ville
TheRealXboxNerd
+1
Level 69
Jan 4, 2015
That was pretty easy. 3:12 left :P
Gandalf9010
+1
Level 66
Dec 8, 2015
Shouldn't really be a correct translation for "tres"
TheCrusher
+6
Level 70
Dec 16, 2015
"Really" translates to "Vraiment". So no, not really.
beccimoo
+1
Level 55
Feb 18, 2016
100%, which is surprising as I did very badly at French in school, and that was many many annees ago!
Carry
+1
Level 63
Aug 12, 2016
Even though I don't speak French I got 17. Good score I'd say. Helps that other languages have taken over a few words.
vincc
+1
Level 57
Mar 8, 2017
100 percent but not fast enough to escape 40 percent bracket in comparison to all the other test talers
Canuckquizzer1981
+1
Level 66
Mar 8, 2017
Ville is actually City, Villages is town.
travelfan
+4
Level 67
Mar 8, 2017
"Village" means the same in both French and English. However, if you're talking about something bigger than a village, English has two different words - town and city, depending on the size - while in French, we only have "ville" (sometimes we'll qualify it to say "une petite ville" or "une grande ville"). As a French speaker, I remember how confusing I found it, when I was starting to learn English, to decide whether a place should be called a city or a town. To this day I sometimes still don't know where the line is between the two. L.A. or New York City are easy, but all those mid-range cities/towns (in terms of population I mean) like Albany or Trenton or Hartford. Or even Atlantic City which I would I probably called a town but hesitate to because of the word "city" in its name.
JamesWycombe
+1
Level 74
Jan 2, 2026
Considering we don't even know in England, it's hard to see how anyone else could know. Ely (18,000) = City, Reading (350,000) = Town. Traditionally cities in England had Cathedrals but this is no longer the case, as many newer cities (wolverhampton) do not have them, and some newer cathedrals (Guildford) are in towns. So it basically comes down to what a place calls itself. although in general cities are larger or were large in the past
cricketwes
+5
Level 56
Mar 8, 2017
So there are 2 "Freetown" capital cities

Freetown and Libreville. You learn something new every day (if you're stupid like me and didn't work it out before)

Quizzer6794
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Level 66
Mar 8, 2017
Easy five points. But one thing doesn't make sense: why are some words in their feminine and some in their masculine? (e.g. Bon/Bonne, and then Année/An)
Arp2600
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Level 89
Mar 9, 2017
It's a bit hard to explain but Année and An are coexisting nouns that are not the masculine and feminine form of the same word, they have distinct entries in the dictionary though being basically synonyms. (It's the same as for jour/journée, matin/matinée and soir/soirée).
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2021
I'd be hard pressed to tell you the difference between "an" and "année", but I can tell you for sure that they're used in different expressions. For instance, New Year is the "jour de l'an". It can never be the "jour de l'année" (that would be any single day of the year). On "jour de l'an", you nevertheless wish each other a "bonne année", not a "bon an".
dunkinggandalf2
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Level 72
Feb 16, 2021
For jour/journée, matin/matinée, and soir/soirée, it seems to me that the shorter version means a specific moment in time, whereas the longer one means a duration of time. As a consequence, they're often used in different contexts. For instance, if I want to know what you're doint this evening (as in, at that moment in time), I'll use "soir", but if I want to know how you're spending your evening (emphasizing a duration), I will use "soirée".
stylus
+1
Level 79
Nov 19, 2021
as far as i've gathered, année is a specific calendar year like 2021, where an is just any 24-hour period
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 72
Feb 9, 2024
You mean 365-day period...
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
I was taught that 'jour' is the period of time, and 'journee' is how you spend it. Similarly, 'soir' is those hours, but 'soiree' is the event during those hours.
mikeb
+1
Level 65
Mar 9, 2017
Got 'em all eventually. Only one I had to come back to was "bienvenue", but then I remembered Joel Grey in "Caberet".
Jacktheguy
+1
Level 93
Mar 9, 2017
Pulp Fiction helped me remember garçon.
conor845
+1
Level 51
Mar 9, 2017
"Garçon means boy" came to my mind also.
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Nov 19, 2021
Embarrassed to say that I thought "garçon" was a type of food.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
Garcon frit appears on only the most select menus.
Devondragin
+2
Level 51
Mar 9, 2017
Nice quiz, good word selection, had no problems with the answers allowed.
cafrance1089
+1
Level 67
Mar 10, 2017
All 24 but that's probably because it's my second language
JBrommit
+2
Level 67
Mar 11, 2017
Easy stuff, when you took it for nine years in school and have Quebecois friends who often forget it's not your first language. :P
sensfan123
+2
Level 21
Mar 26, 2017
Officially bilingual growing up next to Quebec... yeah this was one of the easiest quizzes lol 24/24
JamesWycombe
+1
Level 74
Jan 2, 2026
learned some French 35 years ago, struggle when I am in France, still got 24 on this quiz.
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 87
Mar 31, 2017
18/24. Man, those French have a different word for everything! :-)
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Jan 14, 2019
haha
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jan 14, 2019
Shouldnt female be accepted for femme. (not meaning naming the gender, but as a noun aswell)
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Sep 29, 2019
yes
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Sep 29, 2019
If femelle in French means female (adjective), that's irrelevant, because female in English can be used as a noun that means the same thing as woman.
Arp2600
+3
Level 89
Sep 29, 2019
Femelle as a noun is used for female animals in French.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Sep 29, 2019
Which is completely and entirely irrelevant when you're talking about which words in English can be used to represent the same concept as the French femme. In English, the word female can and is used to refer to human women.

How many people are in that band?

Four.

Are any of them girls?

Yeah there's two males and two females.

I know how to speak English... I teach the subject to non-native speakers like yourself in fact.

RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
I pity your students. Were they able to claim compensation for their ordeal?
Arp2600
+8
Level 89
Sep 30, 2019
You're becoming offensive, and for nothing since I was just giving clarifications about the french word, which can be a noun but not with the same set of acceptations as in English. You're not really a nice person, kal, but I won't give you the pleasure of getting angry for such an insignificant topic. I just hope that the QM, which is a better english-speaker than me, won't listen to you on this one.
TheQuizzler
+2
Level 63
Oct 2, 2019
+1 to Arp2600
kalbahamut
+1
Level 79
Oct 4, 2019
I'm sorry that you felt offended but I wasn't being offensive. There's a difference. My students had trouble with this sometimes, as well. You are not arguing with me about French, which I admittedly know nothing about, you're arguing with me about what the words mean in English. I feel like I would know this. I've taught ESOL for over a decade. That was the point. No need for offense.

QM can listen to me if he wants to be right. If not, that's fine, too. Not a big deal.

EcceHomo
+5
Level 86
Nov 9, 2020
Given your set of rules on translation, femme could also be translated as chick, broad, piece of skirt, because somebody might use those terms in English in certain circumstances. Get over yourself dude.
dunkinggandalf2
+2
Level 72
Feb 9, 2024
Isn't the use of "female" to talk about a woman pretty much restricted to incels, in English?
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
And kalbutternut.
JamesWycombe
+1
Level 74
Jan 2, 2026
if you want to offend your female you can do that.
introvertigo
+1
Level 43
Apr 7, 2019
Is 13/24 okay for someone who's never taken or learned French?
bezz
+2
Level 71
Apr 7, 2019
For Canadians this is easy stuff.
TheCrusher
+1
Level 70
Sep 30, 2019
Yeah, no. A majority of Canadians only speaks English. Québec, Acadie and some isolated communities across the country (mostly in Ontario and Manitoba) are the only ones where people speak French.
Pontifex
+2
Level 47
Oct 1, 2019
Right but this isn't asking us to speak fluently in French, just knowing basic words that we would have picked up from having that one nearly useless French class each year in school for those not in immersion would suffice for this quiz
overtired
+4
Level 88
May 23, 2019
A little surprised that face is the lowest guessed answer given that visage means the same thing in English. I guess it's not that commonly used.
bb11145
+1
Level 46
Aug 5, 2019
city or town for ville . . . but not village?
Quizmaster
+7
Level ∞
Aug 5, 2019
Village is not correct. The French word for village is village.
Bartek
+3
Level 34
Sep 29, 2019
This made me realize that Sierra Leone's capital (Freetown) is a translated capital of Gabon (Libreville)
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
It's the other way round: Freetown (1792) was founded before Libreville (1849).
Raposo
+2
Level 54
May 26, 2020
About all this, and especially about "femme" (and "ville") you have to think about the way the word is used in French, and then find the equivalent in English.

For me, as Portuguese native, another Romance Language, I can clearly understand why "femme" would never be "girl", it's the same in Portuguese: "mulher" (femme) is not a "girl".

If I was doing the opposite, yes I could translate "girl" for "mulher", as in English it is used as "woman". The point is be closer to the real use in the original language.

And this is why translators are important, otherwise we would all be using Google Translate.

hannahgeographyy
+2
Level 60
Jan 3, 2021
I got 8 thats what 5 months of french gets you
TheBerryLegend
+1
Level 51
Jan 4, 2021
Can you allow Die for Dead
Stoggler
+1
Level 55
Dec 30, 2025
Why? 'Di'e is a verb, 'dead' is an adjective. 'To die' in French is 'mourir', a different word from what's in the quiz.
Quizapprentice
+1
Level 31
Feb 12, 2021
Correct me if I am wrong but "Bon" should be "Bonne"
dunkinggandalf2
+3
Level 72
Feb 16, 2021
You're wrong ;-). Bon is the masculine, bonne the feminine. Both would be correct on this quiz, but French is a misogynistic language (quite officially - a grammar rule in French is that the masculine always trumps the feminine).
JackintheBox
+6
Level 82
Feb 16, 2021
That doesn't make it a misogynistic language 🙄 You'll find similarities to this in many languages around the world
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 72
Feb 9, 2024
I'm not saying that French is the *only* misogynistic language... but, in France, this rule was actually created in the 17th century quite explicitly out of misogyny.
brandybuck96
+1
Level 82
Feb 28, 2025
That means the speakers are misogynistic, not the language.
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
^That is such a student's comment - trying to be deep, but meaningless.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Feb 16, 2021
20/24! 'This beats or equals 39.3% of test takers' 😬
c3d
+1
Level 18
May 10, 2021
Female should also work for femme
DaGGrrr
+2
Level 44
Aug 20, 2021
Bit confusing as a german because u have to translate it twice :D But it was doable. Nice quiz!
Nullum
+2
Level 61
Nov 19, 2021
Fête = party, tête = tarty
RondoNo2
+1
Level 53
Mar 30, 2026
You deserve more recognition for that one.
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Nov 19, 2021
The Front Page blurb was right, I was pleasantly surprised at how many of these I knew. I tend to fail most of the other French quizzes on this site, but got 20/24 on this one, enough for 3 points. Not great maybe, but I'm pretty satisfied with that as someone who knows absolutely no French.
stylus
+1
Level 79
Nov 19, 2021
all these nitpickers must surely be inSeine :)
DNAPoet
+2
Level 78
Nov 19, 2021
Suggest accept "waiter" for garcon.

Great quiz. I'd enjoy similar in other languages, e.g. German, Italian, Dothraki.

Evxnn
+1
Level 11
Dec 16, 2022
waiter for garcon ? what i dont understand why waiter is someone who is waiting ?
Stoggler
+1
Level 55
Dec 30, 2025
You never use garçon to refer to a waiter in French these days, at best it's outdated, at worst it's rude.
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Nov 20, 2021
Got 14, I know literally no French
DukeOfLorraine
+1
Level 67
Apr 16, 2022
Between direct norman influence and some common latin roots, over half of english words are similar to french
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Jan 20, 2022
Mort Tete :D Tres Bien, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Petit Monde, Merci beaucoup,
Minimaki
+1
Level 43
Feb 1, 2022
Merci beaucoup pour ce quiz, ce fut simple mais rigolo, du moins sympathique :D
Evxnn
+1
Level 11
Dec 16, 2022
2:57 yayy
jaspert
+1
Level 42
Jan 3, 2023
maybe add die for mort?
Clara04
+1
Level 43
Mar 11, 2023
die is a verb while mort is a noun. Die should not be accepted. the translation of to die in french is mourir
h50Lena
+1
Level 36
Mar 23, 2023
I'm Chinese. I 've learned English and German but never French. I get 15
JFM01
+1
Level 56
Jun 9, 2023
Seven years of French classes in school finally paid off.
Canadian114443
+1
Level 45
Feb 8, 2024
Birthday definitely needs to be accepted! I know most people outside Canada wouldn't use it that way but here we definitely do and about 8 million French speakers isn't nothing.
Julotek
+1
Level 65
Dec 30, 2025
But birthday is anniversaire and nothing else in French.

If I ask someone when is their anniversaire I would get their birthday date. If I ask them when is their fête, I would get the date of the Saint with the same first name.

Sunshine4ever
+1
Level 30
Feb 8, 2024
"You'll be surprised at how many you know"! I knew only merci.
SkilledSid3
+1
Level 59
Feb 8, 2024
I mean- I was surprised I knew seven...
hannah78
+1
Level 36
Feb 10, 2024
being a native German speaker this was quite hard for me since I have learned both French and English in school but I never had to translate sth from French to English before only to German
subparsomeone
+1
Level 32
Dec 8, 2025
I was, in fact, surprised by how little I knew.
Julotek
+2
Level 65
Dec 30, 2025
I got them all.

I guess being French helps me with that one...

Iscannon
+1
Level 64
Dec 30, 2025
I tried Earth and planet for monde. Feel like one of those should have worked
quizthelemon
+1
Level 24
Dec 30, 2025
As a native speaker I would argue that both earth and planet have their french equivalents, which are: terre and planète respectively.

Planet could be any planet. While world actually means everything known to us as humans, so it could technically be the whole universe. At least in french and I don’t think it’s very different in english.

Earth is our planet. Just like Venus, Saturn, etc

aFuzzyPanda
+1
Level 60
Jan 2, 2026
Got em all.

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