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French Vocabulary: PETS AND ANIMALS

By Frederic Bibard Published:

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Want to know what to call your pet in French? Check out our vocabulary list about pets and animals in French here.

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You may have had a pet at one point in your life or you may even have one now. Either way, it makes perfect sense going through today’s lesson on French vocabulary—all about pets and animals in French.

We will not only be covering pets in French, but also other animals in French; from the farm, or the names of field animals in French.

Le chien, after all, will forever be man’s best friend. And wouldn’t it be nice to call your pets in French sometimes? Who knows, your pet may even love hearing the language.

  • PetsLes animaux de compagnie
  • catle chat/la chatte
  • dogle chien/la chienne
  • domestic animall’animal domestique (m)
  • frogla grenouille
  • goldfishle poisson rouge
  • hamsterle hamster
  • lizardle lézard
  • parrotle perroquet
  • rabbitle lapin
  • tortoisela tortue
  • Farm and Field AnimalsLes animaux de la ferme et des champs
  • batla chauve-souris
  • bullle taureau
  • calfle veau
  • chickle poussin
  • cowla vache
  • donkeyl’âne/l’ânesse
  • dormousele loir
  • duckle canard
  • ducklingle caneton
  • ewela brebis
  • field mousele mulot
  • goatla chèvre
  • goosel’oie (f)
  • guinea pigle cochon d’Inde
  • harele lièvre
  • henla poule
  • herdle troupeau
  • horsele cheval
  • lambl’agneau (m)
  • marela jument
  • marmotla marmotte
  • molela taupe
  • mousela souris
  • mulela mule
  • oxle boeuf
  • pigle cochon
  • ponyle poney
  • porcupinele porc-épic
  • poultryla volaille
  • raccoonle raton laveur
  • ramle bélier
  • ratle rat/la rate
  • roosterle coq
  • sheeple mouton
  • sowla truie
  • squirrell’écureuil (m)
  • stallionl’étalon (m)
  • swanle cygne
  • turkeyla dinde

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