
Can you list essential vocabulary for renting an apartment in French
Immobilien- und Wohnvokabular auf Französisch: Ihre Brücke zur internationalen Kommunikation: Can you list essential vocabulary for renting an apartment in French
Here is a list of essential French vocabulary for renting an apartment:
- Agence immobilière / agent immobilier — real estate agency / agent
- À louer — for rent
- Une location — a property for rent
- Locataire / locateur — tenant / renter
- Propriétaire — landlord / owner
- Co-locataire — roommate / co-renter
- Bail — lease or rental contract (e.g. un bail meublé for furnished, un bail nu for unfurnished)
- Bailleur — landlord (property owner)
- Clause particulière — specific conditions in the lease
- Dépôt de garantie — security deposit
- Durée du contrat — rental period
- Caution / garant — guarantor or co-signer
- Garantie des loyers impayés (GLI) — landlord’s insurance for unpaid rent
- Dossier de candidature — application file with documents for renting
- Mandataire — representative or agency managing the property
- Préavis — notice period before leaving
- Prélèvement automatique — automatic debit (for rent payments)
- État des lieux — inventory or property inspection before renting
- Charges comprises — charges included (utilities, building maintenance)
- Charges locatives — tenant’s share of charges
- Chauffage — heating
- Meublé — furnished
- Non meublé — unfurnished
- Appartement — apartment
- Maison — house
- Balcon — balcony
- Ascenseur — elevator
- Quartier — neighborhood
- Disponible — available
- Loyer — rent
- Frais d’agence — agency fees
This vocabulary covers the main terms needed for searching, signing a lease, and managing a rental in French.