Greetings in French
Use the greetings pack with French words such as welcome, meet, friend, and tomorrow.
Preview the pack →English ↔ French
Play your way into French vocabulary
Build useful French vocabulary through short challenges, visual prompts, and words connected to real situations—not a disconnected list.
A complete learning loop
From English word to French recall
MemDecks turns the pieces of vocabulary learning into one playable loop.
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Meet
See a useful word with a picture, its French spelling, and audio.
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Choose
Make quick recognition decisions and get immediate, forgiving feedback.
- 03
Build
Combine familiar words into harder phrase and recall challenges.
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Keep playing
Save learned words to your collection and reuse them in other games.
What you get
What MemDecks supports for French
French is one of 16 study languages, each learned from English. Support depth differs between them; this is what French has.
| Feature | French |
|---|---|
| Script | Latin (Français) |
| Transliteration | Not needed: French is written in the Latin alphabet |
| Audio | On every card |
| Grammatical gender | Not marked on cards |
| Phrase Builder lessons | 14 |
| Alphabet Quest | No |
| On-screen keyboard | Not needed |
Real lesson content
14 French phrases you learn in Phrase Builder
Each Phrase Builder lesson teaches one phrase and the words inside it. These are the French lessons as published.
| English | French |
|---|---|
| The mother gives tea to her child at home. | La mère donne du thé à son enfant à la maison. |
| The student reads a new book at school. | L'élève lit un nouveau livre à l'école. |
| The man drinks cold water today. | L'homme boit de l'eau froide aujourd'hui. |
| The girl eats fresh bread in the room. | La fille mange du pain frais dans la pièce. |
| My friend wants a sweet cake and milk at the cafe. | Mon ami veut un gâteau sucré et du lait au café. |
| The old doctor knows the name of this person. | Le vieux docteur connaît le nom de cette personne. |
| The family has a big house in the city. | La famille a une grande maison dans la ville. |
| The father sees a black car on the road. | Le père voit une voiture noire sur la route. |
| The young girl goes to the small white house at night. | La jeune fille va à la petite maison blanche la nuit. |
| A visitor arrives at the station with a ticket on the platform. | Un visiteur arrive à la gare avec un billet sur le quai. |
| Today my friend comes to the house for a good dinner with coffee. | Aujourd'hui, mon ami vient à la maison pour un bon dîner avec du café. |
| At the restaurant, the visitor reads the menu and wants soup, salad, and juice. | Au restaurant, le visiteur lit le menu et veut une soupe, une salade et un jus. |
| The cook makes breakfast with eggs and cheese. | Le cuisinier prépare le petit-déjeuner avec des œufs et du fromage. |
| The food on the table smells bad after an hour. | La nourriture sur la table sent mauvais après une heure. |
Word by word
70 French words those phrases teach
Every word below is shown in the form it takes in its phrase, so it may be inflected rather than the dictionary form. In the game each one comes with a picture and audio.
| English | French, as used in the phrase |
|---|---|
| mother | mère |
| give | donne |
| tea | thé |
| child | enfant |
| home | maison |
| student | élève |
| read | lit |
| new | nouveau |
| book | livre |
| school | école |
| man | homme |
| drink | boit |
| cold | froide |
| water | eau |
| today | aujourd'hui |
| girl | fille |
| eat | mange |
| fresh | frais |
| bread | pain |
| room | pièce |
| want | veut |
| sweet | sucré |
| cake | gâteau |
| milk | lait |
| cafe | café |
| old | vieux |
| doctor | docteur |
| know | connaît |
| name | nom |
| person | personne |
| family | famille |
| have | a |
| big | grande |
| house | maison |
| city | ville |
| father | père |
| see | voit |
| black | noire |
| car | voiture |
| road | route |
| young | jeune |
| go | va |
| small | petite |
| white | blanche |
| night | nuit |
| visitor | visiteur |
| arrive | arrive |
| station | gare |
| ticket | billet |
| platform | quai |
| friend | ami |
| come | vient |
| good | bon |
| dinner | dîner |
| coffee | café |
| restaurant | restaurant |
| menu | menu |
| soup | soupe |
| salad | salade |
| juice | jus |
| cook | cuisinier |
| make | prépare |
| breakfast | petit-déjeuner |
| egg | œufs |
| cheese | fromage |
| food | nourriture |
| table | table |
| smell | sent |
| bad | mauvais |
| hour | heure |
Useful starting points
Build vocabulary by situation
These are three of 21 topic packs. A pack feeds you new words one at a time, each translated into French.
Travel vocabulary in French
Use the travel pack for French transport and accommodation words such as plane, train, hotel, and room.
Preview the pack →Food vocabulary in French
Use the food pack for everyday French words such as apple, banana, orange, lemon, and grape.
Preview the pack →Questions
Learning French with MemDecks
Can I translate French back into English?
Yes. The translator supports the English–French learning pair in either direction while keeping French as the study language.
Are there French lessons, or only single words?
Both. Phrase Builder has 14 French lessons, each built around one phrase and the words in it, and every word you save becomes a card other games can use.
Can I choose which words to study?
Yes. Translate and save your own useful words, or follow a themed word pack and practise those cards through the app.
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