DELF A2 Vocabulary List (Elementary French)

DELF A2 covers everyday French: routines, the recent past with the passé composé, simple description with the imparfait, shopping, travel, health and preferences. It is the level where the two past tenses have to coexist and where pronominal verbs, se lever, se doucher, s'appeler, become unavoidable.

For candidates preparing DELF A2. Maps to CEFR A2.

About DELF A2

DELF A2 covers everyday French: routines, the recent past with the passé composé, simple description with the imparfait, shopping, travel, health and preferences. It is the level where the two past tenses have to coexist and where pronominal verbs, se lever, se doucher, s'appeler, become unavoidable. The exam tests reading, listening, writing and speaking, and the diploma is permanent.

Who this list is for

DELF A2 suits learners who can describe their day and recount a trip in simple sentences. It appears in some residence procedures and is a realistic checkpoint for people learning French because their partner speaks it, or because they moved and the language is now part of daily life rather than a hobby.

How to study

The passé composé and the imparfait are best learned as a contrast rather than as two separate tenses, so review them as paired example sentences instead of as isolated forms. Daily listening matters more than daily grammar at A2, because French elides and liaises in speech in ways the written form does not show. Put the thirty most frequent verbs into spaced repetition in both tenses at once.

The list (1303 words)

Some example sentences come from the Tatoeba Project (tatoeba.org), CC BY 2.0 FR. The rest were written for MindDory. Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR.

Where do the words after this list come from?

A list has an end. The words you keep for good usually turn up somewhere else — in a page you read, a show you watched, or a conversation you had — one at a time, and rarely at the level you planned for.

MindDory connects to Claude, Cursor, and other assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol, so a word you meet while you are chatting is saved to your deck as a flashcard without you leaving the conversation. There is no copy and paste, no CSV export, and no browser extension.

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