French Vocabulary

Food Categories, Ingredients & Culinary Scales

Food groups, cooking ingredients, and measurement units for discussing recipes and shopping.

Level A2 Category Vocabulary
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Food groups, cooking ingredients, and measurement units for discussing recipes and shopping.

Vocabulary

Organising Food Vocabulary

The names of basic food items and the partitive articles were introduced in food, drinks and the partitive article. The present lesson groups foods into categories, supplies the vocabulary for ingredients and cooking, and presents the standard units of measurement used in recipes and shopping.

Catégories d’aliments (Food Categories)

CategoryExamples
les légumes (m)la carotte, l’oignon, la tomate, la salade
les fruits (m)la pomme, la banane, le raisin, la fraise
la viande (f)le poulet, le bœuf, le porc, l’agneau (m)
le poissonle saumon, le thon, la sole
les produits laitiers (m)le lait, le beurre, le yaourt, la crème
les produits de boulangeriele pain, la baguette, le croissant
les féculents (m)les pâtes, le riz, les pommes de terre
les boissons (f)l’eau, le jus d’orange, le vin, le café

Ingrédients pour une quiche

FrenchEnglish
la pâte briséeshortcrust pastry
les œufs (m)eggs
la crème fraîchecrème fraîche (thick cream)
les lardons (m)bacon bits
le fromage râpégrated cheese
le sel et le poivresalt and pepper
la noix de muscadenutmeg

Mesures et quantités (Measurements)

FrenchEnglish
un kilo(gramme)a kilo(gram)
une livre (500 g)a pound
un litrea litre
une cuillère à soupea tablespoon
une cuillère à caféa teaspoon
une pincée de sela pinch of salt
un verre de…a glass of…
une bouteille de…a bottle of…

Using Food Vocabulary in Context

Food categories, ingredients, and measurements combine with the partitive articles and the verbs acheter and cuisiner. For example: Pour la quiche, il faut des œufs, de la crème, des lardons et du fromage. J’achète un kilo de tomates et une livre de beurre. The partitive is used for unspecified quantities; precise measures are introduced by the noun of quantity without an additional article.

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