August 20, 2022

Des fruits : A Crossword and a Quiz for French Learners

Crossword

You can find a crossword with French fruit names below. My intention was to make it easy, though not tooo easy... I hope you will find it useful. If you find it way too easy, scroll down to the part where I am publishing a quiz for you. It may be a bit more difficult than today's crossword.

A crossword



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QUIZ

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Translation of the sentences

La pêche, le plus cultivé des fruits à noyaux, est originaire de Chine et a été introduite en Europe il y a 2000 ans. The most widely grown stone fruit, the peach, was brought to Europe more than 2000 years ago from China.

La prune est un fruit à noyau, à chair comestible sucrée et juteuse.  The plum is a stone fruit, with sweet and juicy edible flesh. 

La groseille est un petit fruit à grappes, un peu acide, de couleur rouge ou blanche. The gooseberry is a small fruit with clusters, a little acidic, and red or white in color.

La cerise est une drupe (fruit charnu à noyau), de forme sphérique, de couleur généralement rouge, plus rarement jaune.  The cherry is a drupe (fleshy stone fruit), spherical in shape, generally red in color, more rarely yellow.

La poire est charnu et de forme oblongue. The pear is fleshy and oblong in shape.

Les myrtilles sont des baies bleu-noir légèrement sucrées. Blueberries are blue-black, slightly sweet berries.

La framboise est un fruit rouge. Raspberry is a red fruit.

La mûre est un fruit noir et une très bonne source de vitamine C, vitamine K et de fer. Blackberries are a black fruit and a very good source of vitamin C, vitamin K, and iron.

Les fraises se développent à partir du réceptacle charnu des fleurs. Ce sont donc des faux fruits.  Strawberries develop from the fleshy receptacle of the flowers. They are, therefore, false fruits.

Le raisin est le fruit de la vigne. The grape is the fruit of the vine.