French Verbs

Can you translate these French verbs into English?

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First submitted	August 30, 2013
Times taken	77,154
Average score	81.5%
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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

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78 Comments

+17

Level 59

Dec 6, 2013

I only missed three, and it's been nearly 10 years since I studied French in college. Sweet! :)

+23

Level 93

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).

Level 21

Dec 6, 2013

100 percent. Tres facile

+40

Level 71

Sep 2, 2019

Spelling "Très" correctly isn't so facile, though, is it? ;)

+20

Level 38

Mar 18, 2021

but not everyone may have accents on their keyboard

Level 69

Mar 30, 2022

then google translate it and copy it or just install a french keyboard on your laptop or copy the grave accent

+10

Level 77

Dec 20, 2023

"just install a french keyboard"

Level 53

Mar 31, 2024

No need to do all that work just for a comment

+32

Level 61

Mar 30, 2022

Or you could just write it as tres and not go through there hassle because everyone knows what you mean

Level 80

Oct 10, 2023

the* hassle

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.

Level 43

Oct 26, 2024

i don't have a numerical pad on my keyboard i couldn't do that

Level 54

Mar 20, 2025

i don't even always put the accent on french as a native speaker so they're good you're just being petty

Level 37

Dec 7, 2013

I barely started taking French 1 this year and I got 17/27

Level 21

Dec 8, 2013

Got 100% in a minute!

Level 88

Dec 9, 2013

Been out of French class for two years, but still got 27/27.

Level 26

Feb 29, 2016

havent been a school for 3 days... Still 27/27 though! XD

+33

Level 59

Aug 25, 2016

So, you were a school once? Weird.

Level 32

Nov 30, 2016

lol

Level 91

Aug 17, 2019

So basically he's like Monster House, except it's a school?

Level 75

Sep 7, 2016

I got 17 and I never studies French! Ce bon. Or something

Level 33

May 20, 2025

Ce bon ?

Level 63

Sep 27, 2016

11/27 with wild guessing. Never had any French.

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.

Level 67

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

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.

Level 47

Sep 9, 2019

Totaly agree with you

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)

Level 36

Apr 22, 2018

^ Ditto, re: the similarities of romance languages. I know two, yet missed five.

Level 30

Nov 23, 2016

So many quizzes have such high average scores, it's unbelievable.

Level 73

Jan 15, 2019

c'est incredule, ow wait incroyable? something like that haha

Level 17

Dec 7, 2023

little tip: incredible = incroyable and sceptical = incrédule. I hope I helped you ;)

Level 45

Nov 23, 2016

Ce quiz est vraiment trop facile!

Level 59

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

Level 68

Nov 23, 2016

That's easy for me !

Level 66

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.

Level 87

Nov 23, 2016

20/27 from watching "Inspector Maigret".

Level 13

Nov 23, 2016

Yes! A 100%

Level 62

Nov 23, 2016

C'etait tres facile

Level 80

Oct 10, 2023

était* très*

Level 41

Apr 21, 2025

-1

Level 65

Nov 23, 2016

I studied French for 3 seconds, 100 years ago and still got 0/27

Level 80

Nov 25, 2018

Formidable!

Level 66

Nov 24, 2016

With my knowledge of Spanish, I got 16, though I probably should have gotten all of them.

Level 32

Nov 27, 2017

I'm learning this in school...just 14

Level 39

Apr 22, 2018

I'm french so it was easy :)

Level 70

May 16, 2018

Yes but you had to know the English translation so for that 'well done'

Level 73

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

Level 64

Aug 17, 2019

>How could i have missed avoir!!

I feel the same with vouloir

Level 29

Aug 17, 2019

idk how i've ended up here since i'm french myself but oh well

Level 85

Mar 30, 2022

Eh. Easy points. 😊

Level 44

Aug 17, 2019

3:16 left

Level 65

Aug 17, 2019

you're French..maybe ?

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 :-)

Level 65

Aug 17, 2019

3:08

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.

Level 88

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.

Level 45

Dec 4, 2024

livre not liber

Level 41

Apr 21, 2025

no they're not talking about the french word for book

Level 44

Mar 30, 2022

I got 21 but missed sleep, I said sleap....(im not from UK but from the netherlands)

Level 68

Mar 30, 2022

Need to translate twice: from french to German and then back to English. Made it anyway 27/27

Level 67

Mar 30, 2022

or, for non French speakers, this quiz could be renamed "guess a bunch of random English verbs"

Level 37

Mar 30, 2022

Vous voulez coucher avec moi.. ce soir?

Level 17

Dec 7, 2023

Do you know what does it mean?😅

Level 67

Apr 11, 2024

oh... and it's voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir

Level 49

Mar 31, 2022

How tf do more people get the word for "smoke" than for "have"?!

Level 90

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.

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

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.

Level 54

Sep 5, 2022

I'm french so the challenge is more about knowing english verbs.

Level 35

May 6, 2023

easy im french

Level 43

May 28, 2023

Missed four verbs :/ Unique quiz - first specific language one I've seen

Level 47

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.

Level 67

Dec 19, 2023

I got a friend named Damir, and that's the only reason I got dormir

Level 52

Jan 1, 2024

25/27, forgot a couple of easy ones (compter & voir).

Level 49

Feb 12, 2025

That has to be the hardest quizz I've ever done, as someone speaking both lanugages fluently, it took me way too long to complete this quizz, and it took many tries as well

Level 41

Apr 21, 2025

I struggled with aimer. Of course I've been saying "j'aime" since my first french lesson, but when have I ever seen the infinitive form?

Level 60

May 12, 2025

Thanks, DuoLingo

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