Breakdown of Notre chef parle à un client.
parler
to speak
à
at / to / in (general locations) / about (what one thinks about / reacts to)
notre
our (singular and plural forms: notre, nos)
le chef
the boss / the manager
le client
the client / the customer
Questions & Answers about Notre chef parle à un client.
Why do we use notre here instead of nos?
Even though "our" means there are multiple owners, there is only one manager (chef). In French, the possessive word matches the thing being owned, not the owners. If we had multiple managers, we would use nos chefs.
If the manager was a woman, would notre change?
Doesn't chef just mean a cook?
Why does the French sentence use parle to mean "is speaking"?
French doesn't have a specific tense for "is doing" something right now. The simple present tense verb parle can mean either "speaks" or "is speaking" depending on what makes sense in English.
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