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Saturday, September 11, 2010

congédier

to fire

Marcel a été congédié en raison d’être toujours en retard.
Marcel was fired for always being late.

THIS WEEK
We’re looking at vocabulary words related to the workplace and working.


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Vocabulary Section: Business and Industry, Word of the Day
Thursday, September 2, 2010

un short

shorts

Gérard porte un short pour jouer au tennis.
Gérard wears shorts to play tennis.

THIS WEEK
Note how the French use the singular un short instead of the plural form of the word as we do with shorts in English. It’s one example of singular and plural differences between the two languages that we’re looking at this week.

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Vocabulary Section: Clothing, Singulars and Plurals, Word of the Day
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