Your Tour of Europe – French Mini Vocabulary

Your Tour of Europe – French Mini Vocabulary

What follows below is capsule vocabulary for French containing those absolutely essential phrases which yol’ull use time and again in your tour of Europe. The colunmn at the right-hand side provides photenic pronunciations of these terms as they’d sound in English.

Hello Bonjour bohn-zhoor
How are you? Comment all ez-vous? koh-mawh-tah-Iay-voo
Very well Tres bien tray-byanh
Thank you Merci mayr-see
Goodbye Au revoir aw-ruh-vwahr
Please S’il vous plait sill-voo-play
Yes Oui wee
No Non nawh
Excuse me Pardon par-dawh
Give me Donnez·moi duh-nay-mwah
Where is? Ou est? oo ay
the station la gare lah-gar
a hotel un hôtel uh-no-tel
a restaurant un restaurant uh-res-tow-rawh
the toilet le lavabo luh-lah-vah’bo
To the right A droite ah-drwaht
To the left A gauche ah-gohsh
Straight ahead Tout droit too-drwah
I would like Je voudrais ewn-shawm-bruh
to eat manger poor-ewn-nwee
a room une chambre zhuh-voo-dray
for one night pour une nuit mawh-zhay
How much is it? Combien ca coute? kawm-byanh-sah-koot
The check, please L’addition, s.v.p. lah-dee-syohnh
When? Quand? kawnh
Yesterday Hier yayr
Today Aujourd ‘hui oh-zhoor-dwee
Tomorrow Demain duh-manh
Breakfast le petit dejeuner luh puh-tee dayzhuh-nay
Lunch Dejeuner day-zhuh-nay
Dinner Diner dee-nay

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