French Thanksgiving Vocabulary

French vocabulary related to the American celebration of Thanksgiving

 
Thanksgiving is not celebrated in France, so here is some French vocabulary related to the American holiday
 

Thanksgiving		le jour de l'action de grâce
autumn, fall		l'automne
colony		une colonie
feast		un festin, un banquet
football		le football américain
grateful	(adj)	reconnaissant
harvest		la récolte
horn of plenty		la corne d'abondance
native	(adj)	natif
(Native American) Indians		les Indiens (d'Amérique)
November		novembre
parade		une parade
Pilgrims		les pèlerins
settler		un colonisateur
to share		partager
Thursday		jeudi
tradition		une tradition
traditional	(adj)	traditionnel
treaty		un pacte
tribe		une tribu

 
The food served for the Thanksgiving feast varies from home to home, but here are some traditional dishes

food	la nourriture
corn	le maïs
cranberries	les canneberges
gravy	la sauce au jus de viande
mashed potatoes	la purée
pumpkin pie	la tarte à la citrouille
stuffing	la farce
sweet potatoes	les patates douces
turkey	la dinde
yam	un igname

corps-body

English	French
Ankle	La Cheville
Arm	Le Bras
Back	Le Dos
Beard	La Barbe
Belly	Le Ventre
Bones	L´Os
Brain	Le Cerveau
Cheek	La Joue
Chest	La Poitrine
Chin	Le Menton
Ear	L'Oreille
Eyes	L'Oeil
Face	Le Visage
Feet	Les Pieds
Foot	Le Pied
Forehead	Le Front
Hair	Les Cheveux
Hand	La Main
Head	La Tête
Heart	Le Coeur
Knee	Le Genou
Leg	La Jambe
Lips	Les Lèvres
Mouth	La Bouche
Muscles	Les Muscles
Mustache	La Moustache
Neck	Le Cou
Nose	Le Nez
Skin	La Peau
Teeth	Les Dents
Thigh	La Cuisse
Throat	La Gorge
Tongue	La Langue
Tooth	La Dent

French Numbers - Les Nombres

0	zéro		20	vingt	80	quatre-vingts
1	un		21	vingt et un	81	quatre-vingt-un
2	deux		22	vingt-deux	82	quatre-vingt-deux
3	trois		23	vingt-trois
4	quatre				90	quatre-vingt-dix
5	cinq		30	trente	91	quatre-vingt-onze
6	six		31	trente et un
7	sept		32	trente-deux	100	cent
8	huit
9	neuf		40	quarante	200	deux cents
10	dix		41	quarante et un	201	deux cent un
11	onze
12	douze		50	cinquante	1,000	mille
13	treize
14	quatorze		60	soixante	2,000	deux mille
15	quinze
16	seize		70	soixante-dix	1,000,000	un million
17	dix-sept		71	soixante et onze
18	dix-huit		72	soixante-douze	2,000,000	deux millions
19	dix-neuf		73	soixante-treize
			74	soixante-quatorze	a billion	un milliard

:Notes

.The French numbers 0 through 19 are easy enough

For 20 through 69, counting is almost just like in English: the tens word (vingt, trente, quarante, etc.) followed by the ones word (un, deux, trois). The only difference is that for 21, 31, etc., the word et is introduced between the tens word and one: vingt-et-un, trente-et-un, .quarante-et-un, etc

70 to 79 is trickier. In French, 70 is soixante-dix, literally "sixty-ten." 71 is soixante et onze (sixty and eleven), 72 is soixante-douze (sixty-twelve), .and so on, up to 79

80 is quatre-vingts, literally four-twenties (think "four-score"). 81 is quatre-vingt-un (four-twenty-one), 82 is quatre-vingt-deux (four-twenty-two), and so on, all the way up to ninety. 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four-.twenty-ten), 91 is quatre-vingt-onze (four-twenty-eleven), etc

100 to 999 work just like in English, except that when you have cent at the end of the number, it takes an s, but when cent is followed by another number, the s is dropped. Also, note that you cannot pause after the word cent

200 = deux cents

500 = cinq cents

350 = trois cent cinquante

872 = huit cent soixante-douze