FSV #3: TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS, PART 1 - French Vocabulary Song

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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A) FSV #3 Video & Lyrics
B) Word List 1
*Trivia (Culture Note)
C) Review Question
D) Downloads
E) Sneak Peek Word

TRIVIA

Top 50 French Verbs Part 1 , culture note article, rudolph the red nosed reindeer French lyrics

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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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A) FSV #3 Video & Lyrics

Watch the music video and see if you can fill in the Video Word Blanks below.

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B) Word List 1

Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.

* This post introduces just one of many word lists of the full TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS PART 1 Vocabulary Set available in the STUDY PACK.

A WORD TABLE is a table where each word is listed with its dictionary-look-up word (the form of the word that it is listed under in the dictionary), definition, grammatical parts of speech and other notes about the word.

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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
1	DOIT	DEVOIR	(*Must)	vt-irr	---
2	LIRE		To read	vt-irr	---
...	...	...	...	...	...

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A WORD MAP is a visual diagram that organizes the words according to their relationship with each other. Words related to each other (ex: opposites, rhymes, similar conjugation patterns, etc…) are attached or connected to one another.

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Notes: 1) (* ) This is the translation of the conjugated verb.
2) Pink word boxes show the lyric vocabulary words.
3) Blue word boxes show Bonus words.
4) White word boxes attached to other word boxes (verbs, nouns, adjectives) show the various forms of the words they are attached to.
5) Bold font show dictionary-look-up words (The form of the word that it is listed under in the dictionary.)
6) Italics show feminine words.

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For a Sneak Peek of a vocabulary word from the CE RÊVE BLEU (ALADDIN theme song, FSV #4), check out the Sneak Peek below.

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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.

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In the French version, Rudolph still ends up guiding Santa’s sleigh but the French Rudolph has a little visit to heaven and also ends up having a red nose from getting a bit tipsy (drinking too much). Although the story is different, the song is still a Christmas classic, sung by Francophone (French speaking) children the world over every year.

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C) REVIEW QUESTION

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)?

REVIEW QUESTION

Article by Thibault LIESSI (Le Dauphiné)

Review Word (1) has the infinitive form DEVOIR and completes the blank in the article.
Bonus Word (a) means “Roof” and rhymes with Review Word (1).