B1 · 30 words
Eating out in French
Ordering, the courses, the bill.
Practise this list
From these 30 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
More about this list
The list for a table booked for eight o’clock. Near the end is renvoyer un plat, and that verb does five jobs English hands to five unrelated words. It sends a thing back: renvoyer un plat en cuisine. It *dismisses* a person: renvoyer un employé is to sack somebody, and se faire renvoyer is to be expelled from school. It *adjourns: renvoyer une audience puts a hearing off to another date. It reflects: le miroir renvoie la lumière. And it refers*: renvoyer le lecteur à la page douze, whence le renvoi, a footnote marker. The thread is always the same — something is sent away from where it is — and only the English translations look unrelated. The cost of guessing is high in one direction: reading il a renvoyé son assistant as « sent back » loses a dismissal.
The words
Adjective (4)
Grammar for these: Adjective agreement · Where the adjective goes
végétarienvegetarianAdjectiveB1
végétalienveganAdjectiveB1
affaméfamishedAdjectiveB1
savoureuxtastyAdjectiveB1
Adverb (1)
Grammar for these: Adverbs in -ment
séparémentseparatelyAdverbB1
Phrase (21)
retenir une tableto book a tablePhraseB1
le plat de résistancethe main coursePhraseB1
le légume d’accompagnementthe vegetable side dishPhraseB1
les entrées et les platsthe starters and the main coursesPhraseB1
les suggestions du jourthe specials of the dayPhraseB1
être prêt à commanderto be ready to orderPhraseB1
recommander un platto recommend a dishPhraseB1
peu cuitrarePhraseB1
cuit à cœurcooked right throughPhraseB1
sans lactoselactose-freePhraseB1
être rassasiéto be fullPhraseB1
pas assez cuitundercookedPhraseB1
renvoyer un platto send a dish backPhraseB1
les frais de servicethe service chargePhraseB1
laisser un pourboireto leave a tipPhraseB1
partager l’additionto split the billPhraseB1
à emporterto take awayPhraseB1
la serviette en papierthe paper napkinPhraseB1
plate ou gazeusestill or sparklingPhraseB1
réserver pour vingt heuresto book for eight in the eveningPhraseB1
patienter dans la fileto wait in the queuePhraseB1
Noun (m) (3)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
le hors-d’œuvrethe starterNoun (m)B1
l’entremetsthe dessertNoun (m)B1
les couvertsthe cutleryNoun (m)B1
Noun (f) (1)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
la partthe portionNoun (f)B1
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