French Word of the Day

n.f.pl., information

Je cherche des informations sur vos produits.
I’m looking for information on your products.

TODAY
Note how the French use the plural des informations instead of the singular form of the word as we do with information in English. It’s one example of singular and plural differences between the two languages. Follow the links below to discover more examples of French vocabulary words that differ from English in their singular and plural expressions.

• Advice
• Income
• Math
• Progress
• Shorts
• Sports

n.m.pl., progress

Vous avez fait des progrès!
You made progress!

TODAY
Note how the French use the plural des progrès instead of a singular form of the word as we do in English. It’s just one of several examples of singular and plural differences between the two languages.

sports

Les Français aiment beaucoup le sport.
The French like sports very much.

TODAY
Note how the French use the singular le sport instead of the plural  form of the word sports as we do in English. It’s one example of singular and plural differences between the two languages.

n.m.pl., math

Pierre et Paul étudient les maths.
Pierre and Paul study math.

TODAY
Note how the French use the plural les maths instead of a singular form of the word as we do in English. It’s just one of several examples of singular and plural differences between the two languages.

n.m.pl., income

Il faut payer des impôts sur les revenus.
We have to pay taxes on income.

TODAY
Note how the French often use the plural les revenus instead of the singular form of the word as we do with income in English. It’s one example of singular and plural differences between the two languages.

a piece of advice

Il m’a donné un conseil très important.
He gave me a very important piece of advice.

BY THE NUMBERS
Note how the French would say un conseil to denote a specific piece of advice but des conseils to express advice in a more indefinite sense. For example, Avez-vous des conseils? (Do you have any advice?) The difference between French and English in the latter example is that the French use a plural word for advice, while, in English, we have a singular word that denotes an indefinite quantity. These are examples of singular and plural differences between the two languages.

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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