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.
People & basic words
- darts les fléchettes
- dice le dé
- game le jeu
- j’ai gagné! I won!
- le pari bet
- 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
- king le roi
- 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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More resources:
- French card playing vocabulary (Wiki page)
- French boar game glossary (French website)
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