French Lesson Meeting Minutes is chapter 11 of the Hands free Business Frnech course. You can get the free french lessons here on this site and also have a look at the audiobook to accompany the training here
- “a record”: « des notes »
Example sentence French Lesson Meeting Minutes
“I made a record of our meeting.”
« J’ai pris des notes sur notre réunion. »
Breakdown
- “I made”: « j’ai pris »
So that’s “TO TAKE”: « PRENDRE », in the passé composé, the standard past tense.
“TO MAKE” is usually « FAIRE », but it’s a set phrase, it’s a different expression here.
So, you’re not going to say « j’ai fait des notes », you will say “I have taken notes”: « j’ai pris des notes ».
- “a meeting”: « une réunion »
You may say « un meeting » because in business French, you will borrow a lot of English words.
- “our”: « notre »
It’s a possessive pronoun. You need to learn all 6 of the possessive pronouns and their different variations, it’s very important.
Quick tip: “To take notes”
How do you say to take notes?
Well it’s the exact same French expression.
“to make a record” or “to take notes” is going to be « prendre des notes ».
This is going to happen a lot, sometimes you have several expressions in English and only one good translation in French. Sometimes it’s the other way around.
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