Breakdown of La vendeuse dit que la réduction est valable seulement aujourd’hui.
être
to be
aujourd’hui
today
que
that
dire
to say
Questions & Answers about La vendeuse dit que la réduction est valable seulement aujourd’hui.
Why is it la vendeuse and not le vendeur?
Vendeuse means saleswoman / female shop assistant, while vendeur means salesman / male shop assistant.
French nouns usually have grammatical gender, and for jobs referring to people, the form often changes depending on whether the person is male or female:
- un vendeur = a male salesperson
- une vendeuse = a female salesperson
Because the sentence uses la vendeuse, we know the speaker is talking about a woman.
Why is there la before vendeuse and also before réduction?
French uses articles much more often than English does.
Here:
- La vendeuse = the saleswoman
- la réduction = the discount
In English, you might sometimes say Saleswoman says... in a headline-like style, but in normal French you generally need the article: La vendeuse dit...
French also normally uses an article with nouns like réduction, where English might sometimes be less explicit depending on style.
What does que mean here?
Que here means that.
So:
- La vendeuse dit que... =