French household vocabulary: 299 words
Rooms, furniture and the objects around you at home (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their French translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to French: the first 40 words
| English | French | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| home | maison | The feeling of belonging and comfort, not the building itself. |
| house | maison | |
| room | chambre | |
| bedroom | chambre | |
| kitchen | cuisine | |
| bathroom | salle de bains | |
| hallway | couloir | |
| stairs | escalier | |
| door | porte | |
| window | fenêtre | |
| wall | mur | |
| ceiling | plafond | |
| floor | sol | |
| roof | toit | |
| basement | sous-sol | |
| attic | grenier | |
| closet | placard | A storage room or cabinet for clothes, not a private space. |
| furniture | meubles | |
| table | table | |
| chair | chaise | |
| bed | lit | |
| sofa | canapé | |
| couch | canapé | Informal word for sofa; the words are interchangeable. |
| desk | bureau | |
| shelf | étagère | |
| cabinet | placard | Furniture for storage, not a government body. |
| drawer | tiroir | |
| cupboard | placard | |
| counter | plan de travail | |
| sink | évier | A basin for washing, not something that goes down in water. |
| oven | four | |
| refrigerator | réfrigérateur | |
| freezer | congélateur | |
| microwave | micro-ondes | |
| dishwasher | lave-vaisselle | |
| faucet | robinet | |
| bathtub | baignoire | |
| shower | douche | |
| mirror | miroir | |
| lamp | lampe |
259 more words in the full “Home & Everyday Objects” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to French in one click.
What to watch out for in French
- 47 of these 299 words are near-identical in English and French (16%) —
table,vase,thermostat. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
àâçéèêîïô— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 136 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise French household vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.