Au guichet de la gare

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More sentences on this in “Language in use”: French for travelling

Words

69

Sentences

17

Words per sentence

4.1

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• Il y a un train

  il y a means “there is” or “there are” and stays the same before singular and plural. il y a — there is, there are →

• C’est combien · quelle voie

  Question words: combien (how much, how many), quelle (which) — quel agrees with the noun: la voie, so quelle voie. The question words →

• Le train de dix heures · De la voie trois

  The definite article: le train (masculine), la voie (feminine). Definite article: le, la, les →

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 26 of the 41 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• arriver

  to arrive

  A1

• au revoir

  goodbye

  A1

• aujourd’hui

  today

  A1

• avoir

  to have

  A1

• beaucoup

  a lot, very

  A1

• bon

  good

  A1

• bonjour

  good morning, good afternoon

  A1

• dix

  ten

  A1

• la voie

  the platform

  A1

• le billet

  the ticket

  A1

• le matin

  the morning

  A1

• le train

  the train

  A1

• le voyage

  the journey

  A1

• l’euro

  the euro

  A1

• l’heure

  the hour, the time

  A1

• madame

  madam

  A1

• merci

  thank you

  A1

• midi

  midday

  A1

• monsieur

  sir

  A1

• onze

  eleven

  A1

• partir

  to leave, to set off

  A1

• plaire

  to please

  A1

• quarante

  forty

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• trois

  three

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• voilà

  there you are

  A1

• être

  to be

  A1

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