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Tu gagneras un salaire plus important que ton collègue.

Tu gagneras un salaire plus important que ton collègue.
You will earn a bigger salary than your colleague.
From Lesson 135:The future tense for regular verbs (-rai, -ras)·French

Questions & Answers about Tu gagneras un salaire plus important que ton collègue.

How is the future tense formed in tu gagneras?
For regular -er verbs like gagner (to earn), you form the future tense by taking the entire infinitive word and adding the future endings. For tu, the ending is -as, giving us tu gagneras (you will earn).
Why is important translated as "bigger" here?
In French, important often describes the physical size, amount, or volume of something, rather than how "important" or significant it is. When talking about a salary (un salaire) or a sum of money, important means "large" or "substantial".
How does the comparison plus important que work?
To say "more [adjective] than" in French, you put the adjective between plus (more) and que (than). Here, plus important que literally means "more substantial than", which is the natural way to say "bigger than" when talking about money.
Why is it ton collègue? Is collègue always masculine?
The word collègue can be either masculine or feminine, depending on who you are talking about. Because the sentence uses ton (the masculine word for "your"), we know this specific colleague is male. If it were a female colleague, it would be ta collègue.

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