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Vocabulary
Objective: Describe common symptoms using avoir mal à and standard medical vocabulary, and request medicine with accurate dosage instructions from a pharmacist.
| French | English | French | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| la maladie | the illness | un symptôme | a symptom |
| un médecin | a doctor | un pharmacien | a pharmacist |
| une ordonnance | a prescription | une pharmacie | a pharmacy |
| un comprimé | a tablet | un sirop | a syrup |
| une pommade | an ointment | des gouttes | drops |
| la fièvre | a fever | la toux | a cough |
A symptom is expressed as a state with avoir, not with avec. French says j'ai de la fièvre, not je suis avec la fièvre.
Gorge is feminine singular, so the expression requires the article la after the preposition à. The bare noun cannot stand alone.
Gorge is feminine singular and takes à la. Fièvre is also feminine and takes the partitive de la.
Duration is marked by depuis. The reflexive verb se sentir takes the negative bracket around the reflexive pronoun and the verb.
The pronoun m' replaces à moi and sits before the auxiliary a. Ordonnance is feminine and takes the article une.
The preposition contre introduces the condition being treated. Rhume is masculine singular and takes the article le.
The inverted question places the subject after the verb. Toux is feminine and takes the article la.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
| un rhume |
| a cold |
| une grippe |
| the flu |
| une consultation | a consultation | un examen médical | a medical examination |
The verb éternuer keeps its -e ending in the first-person singular, since it belongs to the regular -er group.
Toutes les six heures gives the interval between doses, not the total duration, so each dose is taken once every six hours.
The frequency expression trois fois par jour gives the number of daily doses. The imperative is in the vous form.
Sans ordonnance marks an over-the-counter medicine. The noun sirop is masculine and takes ce as the demonstrative.
The imperative places ne before the verb and pas after it. The past participle prescrite agrees with the feminine noun dose.