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French flower-shop vocabulary: explore the florist’s display

Learn twelve French words for flowers, plants, containers and florist’s tools, then find what a customer requests in a small flower shop.

In short

At the florist’s, une fleur is a flower, un bouquet is a bunch of flowers and une plante en pot is a potted plant. Ask Je voudrais ce bouquet, s’il vous plaît. Explore twelve visible items, then match each customer’s request to the display.

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Flowers at the front, tools on the workbench

A small florist's shop in a wide cutaway view. At the front are separate buckets of red roses and yellow tulips, a round mixed bouquet wrapped in brown paper, a

Choose the container

Un cadeau pour Lina

Paul entre chez la fleuriste. « Bonjour, je cherche un petit cadeau pour ma sœur. Elle aime les fleurs jaunes. » La fleuriste montre les tulipes. Paul choisit un bouquet et demande aussi un vase. « Celui-ci est en verre », dit la fleuriste. Elle prend les ciseaux, coupe un morceau de ruban violet et l’attache autour du papier. Paul regarde une dernière fois le bouquet : « C’est parfait, merci ! »

Paul goes into the florist’s. “Hello, I’m looking for a small present for my sister. She likes yellow flowers.” The florist shows him the tulips. Paul chooses a bouquet and also asks for a vase. “This one is made of glass,” says the florist. She takes the scissors, cuts a piece of purple ribbon and ties it around the paper. Paul looks at the bouquet one last time: “It’s perfect, thank you!”

ruban: ribbon.

Learn une orchidée and un arrosoir: l’ hides their gender. Les ciseaux is masculine plural even for one pair of scissors. For a container, add the material: un vase en verre (a glass vase) or un pot en terre cuite (a terracotta pot).

Question 1No account needed
Which flowers should the florist show?Je voudrais des tulipes jaunes.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Les tulipes jaunes.. The request specifies both the flower, tulipes, and its colour, jaunes.

Question 2No account needed
Choose the empty container for cut flowers.Je cherche un vase en verre.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Le vase.. Un vase en verre is the glass vase on the shelf.

Question 3No account needed
What will go around the bouquet?Un ruban violet, s’il vous plaît.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Le ruban.. Le ruban is the ribbon used to finish the wrapped bouquet.