Basic Conjugation with French Lesson Nouns is Chapter 52 in the free French Lessons designed for Hands Free Business French. The aim of this program is to get you confident in your French conversation with Colleagues as fast as possible.
Its best when combined with several types of learning, so make sure you are watching French movies with the subtitles on in FRENCH. As well as listening to French TV News. But the most important tool in your journey is an audiobook which you can listen to over and over to memorise and perfect, and here it is for you
Basic Conjugation Lesson in French Nouns
“a database”: « une base de données »
“You need a real database to automate your tickets.”
« Tu as besoin d’une vraie base de données pour automatiser tes tickets. »
“a database”: « une base de données »
This is typical of different syntaxes in English and French. Again, in English you have two nouns and you just juxtapose them and it makes a new compound noun.
The first one becomes a de facto adjective “data”, “a base of data” (“database”).
But the French doesn’t do that, « une base de données »: you use one noun + « de » + another noun.
Also, you will need need to make « données » plural because you obviously have lots of data.
So you will never be able to write « une base de donnees » without the -s at the end.
“you need”: « tu as besoin »/« tu as besoin de ».
“you need something”: « tu as besoin de quelque chose ».
Many verbs are built differently. The English “you need” doesn’t need a preposition after it, the French does: « tu as besoin de ».
“to automate”: « automatiser »
[Note: the audio incorrectly is inaccurate for this paragraph]
This a rare trap. It should be « automater ». The final “is” syllable is added from the English.
Usually, both both languages have the same number of syllables, e.g. “to facilitate”: « faciliter », “to estimate”: « estimer ».
“a ticket”: « un ticket » (in the context of customer service). Very simple.
French Lesson Nouns
“You need a real database to automate your tickets.”
« Tu as besoin d’une vraie base de données pour automatiser tes tickets. »
While you are on a roll, we think you should check out some of the other lessons, like this one HERE or have a listen to the full French Lessons Audiobook HERE
Had 146 5/3/2023
