Learn the Top 50 French verbs with a song! We’ve made a song, “Top 50 French Verb Song (Part 1), French Song Vocabulary, FSV #3“, of some of the most popular verbs in the French language. All the verbs of the song are in the “TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS LIST”, as stated in the book “The Big Blue Book of French Verbs, 555 verbs”. (I bought this book back when I was a student and I still use it as a reference today!) This Vocabulary Set, Top 50 French Verbs (Part 1), is based on that song and we hope it will help you build a set of verbs from which to build a solid foundation on.
Image from music video of “TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS, PART 1 – Madame Fipa”

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TRUE or FALSE?
This song uses the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” melody. In the French version of the song, LE (PETIT) RENNE AU NEZ ROUGE, Rudolph gets his red nose from getting a bit too tipsy (drinking too much).
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Watch the music video and see if you can fill in the Video Word Blanks below.
FVV#36 COINCÉ
- I get this weird feeling…???
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Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.
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Notes: 1) Scroll horizontally, if all table columns are not visible. 2) LINK* This column shows the DICTIONARY-LOOK-UP word & a link to an online dictionary entry. 3) ( *) This is the translation of the conjugated verb.
# | LYRIC | DICTIONARY- LOOK-UP LINK | DEFINITION | GRAMMAR | NOTES | |
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1 | DOIT | DEVOIR | (*Must) | vt-irr | --- | |
2 | LIRE | To read | vt-irr | --- | ||
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Q) TRIVIA TRUE or FALSE? This song uses the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” melody. In the French version of the song, LE (PETIT) RENNE AU NEZ ROUGE, Rudolph gets his red nose from getting a bit too tipsy (drinking too much).
A: True. You may have already noticed that the TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS PART 1 song follows the melody of the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” song. The Rudolph song is a beloved Christmas classic that has been translated into many languages, including French. The French version of the song, LE (PETIT) RENNE AU NEZ ROUGE, is not a word for word translation of the original English one and has a slightly different story line.
Use the clues below to guess which word from the word list is the Review Word in the article blank & blank (1). Can you also guess the Bonus word in blank (a)?
TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS PART 1
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FVV#34 SÉCHÉES
- Even superheros have to be careful of germs…
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Here is a sneak peek of the next song, CE RÊVE BLEU (FSV #4, Theme song from ALADDIN). Can you guess what word goes in the blank?