French Lesson Root Cause Analysis is Chapter 72 in the free French lessons for Business on this website. He hope that you will enjoy this learning resource. We would be very grateful if you go and have a listen to the accompanying audiobook Hands Free Business French HERE
“a root cause analysis” (RCA): « une analyse de cause racine » (ACR)
“We need to specify the root cause of last week’s accident.”
« Nous devons préciser la cause racine de l’accident de la semaine dernière. »
“a root cause analysis”: « une analyse de cause racine ».
This is exactly the same words but reversed. You will need this a lot, especially in a factory.
“analysis”: « une analyse »
“a cause”: « une cause »
“a root”: « une racine »
“a root cause analysis”: « une analyse de cause racine »
Even the acronym is reverted – “RCA” becomes « ACR ».
The chart is called « un arbre des causes ». Literally “a tree of causes”, so the decision tree.
“to need”: « devoir »
Root Cause Analysis French Lesson
This is an external obligation, you have to do this by law, you have to determine the cause of each accident.
“an accident”: « un accident »
It’s transparent because it comes from Latin. Again, you don’t need to know Latin, but it helps to be able to determine whether a word in English or French or both might have a Latin root, because it’s going to be similar in both languages.
“last week”: « la semaine dernière »
“a week”: « une semaine »
“last”: « dernier » (masculine)/« dernière » (feminine).
“last week”: « la semaine dernière ».
Here is the full sentence again:
“We need to specify the root cause of last week’s accident.”
« Nous devons préciser la cause racine de l’accident de la semaine dernière. »
Be sure to also have alook at some of the other lessons, including this one on French Grammar here
