📖LearnModule 7 · Lesson 10 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, completedUnit 2 · La santé et le corps
À la pharmacie
Module 7 of the free French course (CEFR B1, completed), lesson 10 of 30: The French pharmacy is a first stop, not a last one. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 10.
The words
French
English
Say it
la pharmacie
the pharmacy
lah fahr-mah-SEE
l'ordonnancefeminine — the article elides to l'
the prescription
lor-doh-NAH(n)S
le médicament
the medicine
luh may-dee-kah-MAH(n)
le comprimé
the tablet
luh koh(n)-pree-MAY
contre le mal de tête
for a headache
koh(n)-truh luh mahl duh TEHT
remboursé
reimbursed
rah(n)-boor-SAY
trois fois par jour
three times a day
trwah fwah pahr ZHOOR
le pharmacien
the pharmacist
luh fahr-mah-SYA(n)
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
The French pharmacy is a first stop, not a last one, and its green cross is on every main street. Bring your ordonnance (prescription) if you have one; ask for the rest across the counter.
Et aussi · And also
Useful shapes: avez-vous quelque chose contre le mal de tête? (do you have something for a headache?) and c'est remboursé? (is it reimbursed?). Contre — against — is how French names what a medicine is for.
Attention · Watch out
l'ordonnance is the prescription, not an ordinance. And trois fois par jour is three times a day: par, not chaque.
prendre — the table
je prends · tu prends · il/elle prend · nous prenons · vous prenez · ils/elles prennent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with la pharmacie.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out prendre in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.