Bonjour! My name is David! Welcome! Follow me on In this lesson you’ll learn how to say different kinds of jobs and professions in French. Click on any of the French words below, listen and repeat. Make sure the page is finished loading for the audio to work. Also, please see below for important explanations.
Now you can go through this video. Towards the second half you can test yourself on the new words you’ve learned.
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Explanations: At first glance this vocab list should be pretty easy as a lot of the words are similar to English. However, they are a bit tricky and require some extra attention. In French, each profession word much correspond in gender (male or female) with the person it’s describing. For example, a male waiter would be “le serveur” while a female waitress would be “la serveuse”. However, here’s where it gets tricky. Some of the words are the SAME in both the masculine and feminine form. Examples of this are “le dentiste” and “la dentiste” and “le journaliste” and “le journaliste”. In the table above I’ve included a “m/f” to indicate words that are exact same in the masculine and feminine forms. Furthermore, there are some words which are always written in the masculine. Two examples are “le gendarme” (the policeman) and “le pompier” (the fireman). This is because these professions were traditionally done by men in the past. But, times are changing as certain words finally evolving. For example, in the past the word for politician was, “l’homme politique” (political man). However, now people are finally saying, “la femme politique” (the political woman). Finally, when in doubt for any of these words you can consult the dictionary.
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