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Put your French vocabulary to the test with this challenging C1-level crossword focused on collocations: those natural word pairings that separate fluent speakers from the rest. From verb-noun combinations to fixed expressions, can you find the words that truly belong together in French? Fill in the grid and sharpen your feel for authentic, idiomatic language.
Grid
Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 2. Words that appear together often
- 9. Linking of words that go together
- 10. Often
- 11. Work or effort put into a project
Down
- 1. Always
- 3. Combination of words frequently paired
- 4. Fixed word combination in a language
- 5. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 6. How often a word combination occurs
- 7. Noun used in a collocation pair
- 8. To want
Answers
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Across
- 2. Words that appear together often → cooccurrence
- 9. Linking of words that go together → association
- 10. Often → souvent
- 11. Work or effort put into a project → travail
Down
- 1. Always → toujours
- 3. Combination of words frequently paired → combinaison
- 4. Fixed word combination in a language → collocation
- 5. Twilight, dusk at day's end → crepuscule
- 6. How often a word combination occurs → frequence
- 7. Noun used in a collocation pair → substantif
- 8. To want → vouloir
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