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Card and Board Games Vocabulary

Card and Board Games Vocabulary

Les cartes et les jeux de société

Are you a game player? On this page you’ll find a complete list of French vocabulary covering words for both board games and card games. Interestingly, the word for chess is échecs, which looks like checkers. The word for checkers is jeu de dames.

Cards & board games

People & basic words

  • darts les fléchettes 
  • dice le dé 
  • game le jeu 
  • I won! j’ai gagné!
  • bet le pari
  • looser le perdant
  • move le coup 
  • player le joueur 
  • point le point 
  • score la marque
  • target la cible 
  • winner le gagnant 

Card games

  • ace l’as 
  • bishop le fou 
  • card game le jeu de cartes 
  • cards les cartes 
  • club le trèfle 
  • diamond le carreau 
  • heart le cœur
  • jack le valet
  • joker le joker 
  • king le roi 
  • pawn le pion 
  • queen la dame 
  • queen la dame 
  • spade le pique 

Board games

  • backgammon le trictrac 
  • board games les jeux de société 
  • checkers / draughts les dames 
  • chess les échecs 
  • chessboard l’échiquier 
  • dominos les dominos 
  • knight le cavalier 
  • monopoly le monopoly 
  • rook le tour 
  • scrabble le scrabble 
  • tile / scrabble piece la pièce 

Verbs

  • to deal (cards) donner
  • to lose the game perdre le jeu 
  • to play a game jouer un jeu 
  • to play jouer
  • to shuffle (cards) battre
  • to win the game gagner le jeu 
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David Issokson

David Issokson is a lifelong language learner and speaks over seven languages. Of all the languages he speaks, he's the most passionate about French! David has helped hundreds of students to improve their French in his private lessons. When not teaching or writing his French Word of the Day lessons, David enjoys his time skiing, hiking and mountain biking in Victor, Idaho.

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