Breakdown of La vendeuse dit que la réduction est valable seulement aujourd’hui.
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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.
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.
Que here means that.
So:
- La vendeuse dit que... =