The Petit Robert helps readers both to understand French in all its nuances and to express themselves with ease and confidence in the right register

It offers:

• 60,000 references;
• the discovery of unknown or forgotten words thanks to its analogical approach, completely reworked in the light of new words and phrases;
• all the most subtle and current meanings with clear and authoritative definitions;
• distinct contexts for the correct usage of words in all registers, from colloquial to formal;
• synonyms, opposites and homonyms;
• obsolete and dated words providing access to literary classics of the past;
• the history of words: etymology, date of first occurrence, historical classification of meanings;
• quotations from literary classics of the French-speaking world, well-known lines from songs and films;
• careful description of standard usage;
• notes on difficult points of grammar;
• conjugation tables including past participle agreements.