A1 (Elementary) Vocabulary Word List
Welcome to your complete A1 CEFR English vocabulary list. This is the perfect place to start if you are a beginner on your English learning journey. The A1 level, also known as the "Elementary" level, gives you the foundation you need for basic, everyday conversations.
Below, you will find the most important vocabulary to learn. When you feel confident with this list, your next step is the A2 Pre-Intermediate level word list.
In our Word Bank, A1 words are divided into word types, with examples, collocations and IPA phonetic transcription.
nouns | verbs | adjectives | adverbs
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a / an (det) about (prep) above (prep) across (prep) action (n) activity (n) actor (n) actress (n) to add (v) address (n) adult (n) afraid (adj) after (prep) afternoon (n) again (adv) age (n) ago (adv) air (n) airport (n) all (det) all right (adj / adv) also (adv) always (adv) amazing (adj) and (conj) |
angry (adj) animal (n) another (det) to answer (v) answer (n) any (det) anyone (pron) anything (pron) apartment (n) apple (n) April (n) area (n) arm (n) around (prep) to arrive (v) art (n) article (n) artist (n) as (prep) to ask (v) at (prep) August (n) aunt (n) autumn (n) away (adv) |
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baby (n) back (adv) bad (adj) bag (n) ball (n) banana (n) band (n) bank (n) bar (n) bath (n) bathroom (n) to be (v) beach (n) beautiful (adj) because (conj) to become (v) bed (n) bedroom (n) beer (n) before (prep) to begin (v) beginning (n) behind (prep) to believe (v) below (prep) best (adj) better (adj) between (prep) bicycle (n) big (adj) bike (n) bill (n) bird (n) birthday (n) |
black (adj) blog (n) blonde (adj) blue (adj) boat (n) body (n) book (n) boot (n) bored (adj) boring (adj) born (v ppt) both (det) bottle (n) bottom (n) box (n) boy (n) boyfriend (n) bread (n) to break (v) breakfast (n) to bring (v) brother (n) brown (adj) to build (v) building (n) bus (n) business (n) busy (adj) but (conj) butter (n) to buy (v) by (prep) bye (interj) |
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cafe (n) cake (n) to call (v) camera (n) can (v) cannot (v) capital (n) car (n) card (n) carrot (n) to carry (v) cat (n) CD (n) cent (n) centre (n) chair (n) to change (v) chart (n) cheap (adj) to check (v) cheese (n) chicken (n) child (n) chocolate (n) to choose (v) cinema (n) city (n) class (n) classroom (n) to clean (v) |
clean (adj) to climb (v) clock (n) to close (v) clothes (n) club (n) coat (n) coffee (n) cold (adj) college (n) colour (n) to come (v) company (n) to complete (v) computer (n) concert (n) to cook (v) cooking (n) cool (adj) correct (adj) to cost (v) could (v) country (n) course (n) cousin (n) cow (n) cream (n) cup (n) customer (n) to cut (v) |
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dad (n) daily (adj) to dance (v) dancer (n) dancing (n) dangerous (adj) dark (adj) date (n) daughter (n) day (n) dear (adj) December (n) to decide (v) delicious (adj) desk (n) detail (n) dialogue (n) dictionary (n) to die (v) diet (n) different (adj) |
difficult (adj) dinner (n) dirty (adj) dish (n) to do (v) doctor (n) dog (n) dollar (n) door (n) down (adv) downstairs (adv) to draw (v) dress (n) to drink (v) to drive (v) driver (n) driving (n) dry (adj) during (prep) DVD (n) |
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each (det) ear (n) early (adj) east (n) easy (adj) to eat (v) egg (n) eight (num) eighteen (num) eighty (num) elephant (n) eleven (num) else (adv) email (n) end (n) to enjoy (v) enough (det) |
euro (n) even (adv) evening (n) ever (adv) every (det) everybody (pron) everyone (pron) everything (pron) exam (n) example (n) excited (adj) exciting (adj) exercise (n) expensive (adj) to explain (v) extra (adj) eye (n) |
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face (n) to fall (v) false (adj) family (n) famous (adj) fantastic (adj) far (adv) farm (n) farmer (n) fast (adj) fat (adj) father (n) favourite (adj) February (n) to feel (v) festival (n) few (det) fifteen (num) fifth (num) fifty (num) to fill (v) film (n) final (adj) to find (v) fine (adj) to finish (v) fire (n) first (num) fish (n) |
five (num) to fix (v) flat (n) flight (n) floor (n) flower (n) to fly (v) to follow (v) food (n) foot (n) football (n) for (prep) to forget (v) form (n) forty (num) four (num) fourteen (num) fourth (num) free (adj) Friday (n) friend (n) friendly (adj) from (prep) front (n) fruit (n) full (adj) fun (n) funny (adj) future (n) |
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game (n) garden (n) geography (n) to get (v) girl (n) girlfriend (n) to give (v) glass (n) to go (v) good (adj) goodbye (interj) |
grandfather (n) grandmother (n) grandparent (n) great (adj) green (adj) grey (adj) group (n) to grow (v) to guess (v) guitar (n) gym (n) |
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hair (n) half (n) hand (n) to happen (v) happy (adj) hard (adj) hat (n) to hate (v) to have (v) to have to (v) he (pron) head (n) health (n) healthy (adj) to hear (v) hello (interj) to help (v) her (pron / det) here (adv) hey (interj) |
hi (interj) high (adj) him (pron) his (det / pron) history (n) hobby (n) holiday (n) home (n) homework (n) to hope (v) horse (n) hospital (n) hot (adj) hotel (n) hour (n) house (n) how (adv) hundred (num) hungry (adj) husband (n) |
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I (pron) ice (n) ice cream (n) idea (n) if (conj) important (adj) in (prep) to include (v) information (n) interest (n) |
interested (adj) interesting (adj) internet (n) interview (n) into (prep) to introduce (v) island (n) it (pron) its (det) |
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jacket (n) January (n) jeans (n) job (n) to join (v) |
journey (n) juice (n) July (n) June (n) just (adv) |
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to keep (v) key (n) kilometre (n) |
kind (n) kitchen (n) to know (v) |
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land (n) language (n) large (adj) last (adj) (final) late (adj / adv) later (adv) to laugh (v) to learn (v) to leave (v) left (adj / n) leg (n) lesson (n) to let (v) letter (n) library (n) to lie (v) |
life (n) light (n) (from sun/lamp) like (prep) (similar) to like (v) (enjoy) line (n) lion (n) list (n) to listen (v) little (adj) to live (v) long (adj) to look (v) to lose (v) lot (n) to love (v) lunch (n) |
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machine (n) magazine (n) main (adj) to make (v) man (n) many (det) map (n) March (n) market (n) married (adj) match (n) (contest) May (n) maybe (adv) me (pron) meal (n) to mean (v) meaning (n) meat (n) to meet (v) meeting (n) member (n) menu (n) message (n) metre (n) middle (n) midnight (n) mile (n) |
milk (n) million (num) minute (n) to miss (v) mistake (n) model (n) modern (adj) moment (n) Monday (n) money (n) month (n) more (det / adv) morning (n) most (det / adv) mother (n) mountain (n) mouse (n) mouth (n) to move (v) movie (n) much (det / adv) mum (n) museum (n) music (n) must (v) my (det) |
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name (n) near (prep) to need (v) neighbour (n) never (adv) new (adj) news (n) newspaper (n) next (adj) next to (prep) nice (adj) night (n) nine (num) nineteen (num) |
ninety (num) no (det) no one (pron) nobody (pron) noon (n) north (n) nose (n) not (adv) note (n) nothing (pron) November (n) now (adv) number (n) nurse (n) |
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o'clock (adv) October (n) of (prep) off (adv / prep) office (n) often (adv) oh (interj) OK (adj / adv) old (adj) on (prep) once (adv) one (num / pron) onion (n) online (adj / adv) |
only (adv) to open (v) open (adj) opposite (adj) or (conj) orange (n / adj) to order (v) other (adj / pron) our (det) out (adv / prep) outside (adv / prep) over (prep) to own (v) |
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page (n) to paint (v) painting (n) pair (n) paper (n) paragraph (n) parent (n) park (n) part (n) partner (n) party (n) passport (n) past (n / adj) pasta (n) to pay (v) pen (n) pencil (n) people (n) pepper (n) perfect (adj) period (n) person (n) personal (adj) phone (n) photo (n) photograph (n) phrase (n) piano (n) picture (n) piece (n) pig (n) |
pink (adj) pizza (n) place (n) plan (n) plane (n) plant (n) to play (v) player (n) please (interj) point (n) police (n) policeman (n) pool (n) poor (adj) pop (n) (music/sound) popular (adj) possible (adj) post (n) potato (n) pound (n) practice (n) to practise (v) present (n) pretty (adj) price (n) problem (n) programme (n) project (n) purple (adj) to put (v) |
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quarter (n) question (n) quick (adj) |
quickly (adv) quiet (adj) quite (adv) |
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rabbit (n) radio (n) rain (n) to read (v) reader (n) reading (n) ready (adj) real (adj) really (adv) reason (n) red (adj) to relax (v) to remember (v) to repeat (v) |
report (n) restaurant (n) to return (v) rice (n) rich (adj) to ride (v) right (adj / n) river (n) road (n) rock (n) (stone) room (n) rule (n) to run (v) |
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sad (adj) salad (n) salt (n) same (adj) sandwich (n) Saturday (n) to say (v) school (n) science (n) scientist (n) sea (n) second (num / n) section (n) to see (v) to send (v) sentence (n) September (n) seven (num) seventeen (num) seventy (num) she (pron) sheep (n) shirt (n) shoe (n) shop (n) shopping (n) short (adj) should (v) to show (v) shower (n) sick (adj) to sing (v) singer (n) sister (n) to sit (v) six (num) sixteen (num) sixty (num) skirt (n) to sleep (v) slow (adj) small (adj) snake (n) |
snow (n) so (conj / adv) sofa (n) some (det) somebody (pron) someone (pron) something (pron) sometimes (adv) son (n) song (n) soon (adv) sorry (adj) sound (n) soup (n) south (n) space (n) to speak (v) special (adj) to spell (v) spelling (n) to spend (v) sport (n) spring (n) to stand (v) to start (v) station (n) to stop (v) story (n) street (n) strong (adj) student (n) to study (v) style (n) subject (n) sugar (n) summer (n) sun (n) Sunday (n) supermarket (n) sure (adj) sweater (n) to swim (v) swimming (n) |
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table (n) to take (v) to talk (v) tall (adj) taxi (n) tea (n) to teach (v) teacher (n) team (n) teenager (n) telephone (n) television (n) to tell (v) ten (num) tennis (n) terrible (adj) test (n) text (n) than (conj) to thank (v) thanks (interj) that (det) the (det) theatre (n) their (det) them (pron) then (adv) there (adv) they (pron) thing (n) to think (v) third (num) thirsty (adj) thirteen (num) thirty (num) this (det) thousand (num) |
three (num) through (prep) Thursday (n) ticket (n) time (n) tired (adj) title (n) to (prep) today (adv / n) together (adv) toilet (n) tomato (n) tomorrow (adv / n) tonight (adv / n) too (adv) top (n / adj) tooth (n) tourist (n) town (n) traffic (n) train (n) to travel (v) tree (n) trip (n) trousers (n) true (adj) to try (v) T-shirt (n) Tuesday (n) to turn (v) TV (n) twelve (num) twenty (num) twice (adv) two (num) type (n) |
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umbrella (n) uncle (n) under (prep) to understand (v) university (n) until (conj) |
up (adv / prep) upstairs (adv) us (pron) to use (v) usually (adv) |
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vacation (n) vegetable (n) very (adv) video (n) |
village (n) to visit (v) visitor (n) |
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to wait (v) waiter (n) to wake (v) to walk (v) wall (n) to want (v) warm (adj) to wash (v) to watch (v) watch (n) water (n) way (n) we (pron) to wear (v) weather (n) website (n) Wednesday (n) week (n) weekend (n) welcome (interj) well (adv) west (n) what (pron / det) when (adv / conj) |
where (adv / conj) which (pron / det) white (adj) who (pron) why (adv) wife (n) will (v) to win (v) window (n) wine (n) winter (n) with (prep) without (prep) woman (n) wonderful (adj) word (n) work (n) / to work (v) worker (n) world (n) would (v) to write (v) writer (n) writing (n) wrong (adj) |
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yeah (interj) year (n) yellow (adj) yes (interj) yesterday (adv / n) |
you (pron) young (adj) your (det) yourself (pron) |
