Questions & Answers about Votre chef prépare une réunion.
Why use votre instead of vos if the lesson is about plural owners?
In French, the possessive word always matches the thing being owned, not the owners. Even if the manager is the boss of a whole team of people, there is only one manager in this sentence. So, we use the singular votre. If the team had multiple managers, it would be vos chefs. Does chef mean "manager"? I thought it meant a cook!
In English, we borrowed the word "chef" specifically for cooking. But in French, un chef is a general word that simply means a boss, manager, or leader of any kind. The English translation says "is preparing", but where is the French word for "is"?
French doesn't have a separate "is doing" tense like English does. The single present tense verb prépare translates to both "prepares" and "is preparing" depending on the context. Adding a French word for "is" right before the action would actually be a grammatical mistake! Are there any tricks to remember that réunion is feminine and takes une?
Yes! As a general rule, almost all French words that end in -ion (like réunion, télévision, or information) are feminine. Because it is feminine, it uses une for "a" instead of un. Learn Votre chef prépare une réunion and more in French
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