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Les formes
Lots of things come in "all shapes and sizes." Here’s the French vocab you need to go into detail regarding the first part of that description.
| arrow | une flèche | |
| circle | un cercle | |
| cone | un cône | |
| crescent | un croissant | |
| cross | une croix | |
| cube | un cube | |
| curve | une courbe | |
| cylinder | un cylindre | |
| diamond | un losange | |
| dot | un point | |
| figure eight | un huit | |
| flower | une fleur | |
| heart | un cœur | |
| hexagon | un hexagone* | |
| infinity symbol | un (signe) infini | |
| line | une ligne | |
| oval | un ovale | |
| parallelogram | un parallélogramme | |
| pentagon | un pentagone | |
| polygon | un polygone | |
| pyramid | une pyramide | |
| rectangle | un rectangle | |
| sphere | une sphère | |
| square | un carré | |
| star | une étoile | |
| stick figure | un bonhomme | |
| trapezium | un trapèze | |
| triangle | un triangle |
* When capitalized and feminine, l’Hexagone is a nickname for France.
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