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VOCABULARY – Jobs and workplaces

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In French, professions have to change with the gender (masculine or feminine). Read the table below, and listen to the pronunciation

Masculin Féminin
étudiant étudiante
serveur serveuse
vendeur vendeuse
facteur factrice
directeur directrice

Sometimes, the pronunciation (and even the spelling!) is going to be the same:

Masculin Féminin
employé employée
journaliste journaliste
architecte architecte

If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, you can look in the online dictionary WordReference.

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