Basic shapes: Discussing the shape of elements in a chart

💬 The c at the start sounds like an s, as in (sair-kl).

💬 Besides "how are you", Ça va ? also asks whether something works or is acceptable. Point at anything and ask it.

💬 Spoken French often names the thing first, then asks ça va ? about it. That is simpler than building a full question.

💬 Camembert is literally the round cheese, and it is the everyday word for a pie chart.

🇫🇷 In meetings people really say camembert, not a technical term. It is a slightly playful but completely normal office word.

💬 Bien works here as "good" after c'est. You would say c'est bien, not c'est bon, to approve a choice.

💬 Mois is the same in singular and plural, and the s stays silent: (mwa).

💬 Et pour ... ? is a handy way to move on to the next item. For example: Et pour le budget ? "And for the budget?"

💬 Des is the plural of un/une, meaning "some". English often drops it, but French needs it.

💬 Colours come after the shape and take an s in the plural, as in rectangles bleus. Try des cercles rouges "red circles".

💬 A few short words like petit and grand go before the noun, unlike most colours and descriptions. That is why you get petits triangles but rectangles bleus.

💬 In casual speech, quoi "what" goes at the end: c'est quoi ? It is the everyday way of saying qu'est-ce que c'est ?

💬 The -ent ending of montrent is silent, so it sounds just like montre: (mohntr). The opposite of la hausse is la baisse "the drop".

💬 To say "not", French wraps the verb in two words: ne ... pas. Here ne shortens to n' before a vowel.

💬 Use si instead of oui to say yes to a question phrased in the negative. To "Isn't it clear?", si means "yes, it is".

💬 Plutôt "instead, rather" goes right after the verb. It lets you suggest an alternative without saying no outright.

🇫🇷 The mets form is the casual "you" used between colleagues on familiar terms. With a boss, people would say mettez.

💬 French makes "-er" comparisons by putting plus before the describing word: plus simple, plus grand "bigger". There is no special ending.

💬 Both final consonants are silent: (da-kor). People often shorten it to d'acc in casual speech.

🇫🇷 Repeating the key word back is a normal way to confirm you have understood a request.

💬 Carré also describes something as square: une table carrée "a square table".

💬 Légende means a chart's key or a photo caption, not a famous story.

💬 French uses de "of" where English says "in" for parts of something: les couleurs du graphique "the colours in the chart".

💬 Un peu "a bit" softens a criticism. Put it before any describing word: un peu grands "a bit big".

💬 When giving an instruction, les "them" comes after the verb with a hyphen: fais-les. Grands takes an s to match the plural squares.

💬 French often uses the present tense for something you are about to do. You do not need a future form for "I'll change that".

💬 To boost merci you add beaucoup "a lot" after it, never très "very". Merci très sounds wrong to French ears.

🇫🇷 This is said to someone facing effort or a long slog, like a colleague redoing a chart late or a friend before exams. It means "hang in there" more than luck. For pure chance, like a lottery, French uses bonne chance "good luck" instead.