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French flashcards

French is a memory-heavy subject, and that is exactly where active recall and spaced repetition shine. The hard part is not the ideas but the sheer volume of small details you have to keep straight: the gender of every noun, the endings for each tense and subject, irregular verbs that refuse to follow a pattern, accents that change a word's meaning, and false friends that look English but are not. Recognising a word when you see it is easy; producing it from memory is the real test. Quizzing yourself with flashcards forces that retrieval, and a spaced-repetition schedule brings each card back right before you would forget it, so conjugation tables and vocabulary lists actually stick instead of fading after the quiz.

Cram turns your own French material into a study deck in seconds. Paste your class vocabulary list, drop in a PDF chapter or a verb-conjugation handout, share a web article, or just type a topic like passe compose or partitive articles, and Cram's AI writes clean question-and-answer cards for you. Because the deck is built from what your teacher or textbook actually assigned, you drill the exact words and rules on your exam, not a stranger's set. Then you review with active recall and spaced repetition, set an exam countdown to stay on pace, and study offline with no ads and no lockouts on your iPhone.

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What to drill in French

  • Core vocabulary with noun gender (le or la) and plurals
  • Verb conjugations across present, passe compose, imparfait, futur, and subjunctive
  • Irregular verbs (etre, avoir, aller, faire, pouvoir, vouloir)
  • Articles, agreement, and pronouns (de/du/des, en, y, COD/COI)
  • Accents, spelling, and false friends (faux amis) that trip up English speakers
  • Everyday phrases, idioms, and dialogue for speaking and listening

How Cram helps

Cards built for you

Add your french notes or a PDF and AI writes the deck in seconds.

Spaced repetition

Each card returns right before you'd forget it, for durable recall.

Built from your material

Cards come from your own course content — not a stranger's set.

Make your French deck in seconds

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