French Lesson Salary Wages is Chapter 68 of the Hands Free Business French audiobook and is set out on this page to fast track your learning.
Keep going you are doing really well! this chapter has some key words you’ll use a lot.
How to Discuss Salary and Wages as Part of a French Lesson
“The variable component of wages often depends on skill.”
“a wage”: « un salaire »
« La part variable des salaires dépend souvent de la compétence. »
“the variable component”: « la part variable ». Literally “the variable part”.
“often”: « souvent »
“to depend on”: « dépendre de ».
Be careful with the proposition here. You might expect « dépendre sur » but it’s actually « de ».
This is a very common mistake with my clients when they speak French and try English or the other way around, they will often get the prepositions wrong.
Let’s conjugate « DEPENDRE DE »:
DEPENDRE DE (TO DEPEND ON): present
Je dépends (de): I depend (on)
Tu dépends (de): You depend (on)
Il/Elle dépend (de): He/She depends (on)
Nous dépendons (de): We depend (on)
Vous dépendez (de): You depend (on)
Ils/Elles dépendent (de): They depend (on)
This is a third group regular verb. Very useful as a reference.
“the skill”: « la compétence »
It’s easy to remember, it’s like “competency”.
Here is the full sentence again:
“The variable component of wages often depends on skill.”
« La part variable des salaires dépend souvent de la compétence. »
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