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How to Say ‘To reduce our transport costs’ in French

Réduire nos coûts de transport

ray-DWEER noh koo duh trahns-POR

[ray-DWEER noh koo duh trahns-POR]

🇫🇷 In France: Stating the goal as a bare verb like this is typical on French slides and in meetings, for example Améliorer… "to improve…" or Augmenter… "to increase…".

Phrase Breakdown

Réduire nos coûts

ray-DWEER noh koo

To reduce our costs

'Réduire' sounds like 'ré-dweer'. 'Coûts' sounds like 'koo'.

Example

Il faut réduire nos coûts.

We need to reduce our costs.

Words in this phrase

Réduire

[ray-DWEER]

to reduce

To make smaller or lower.

Example

Il faut réduire le prix.

We must reduce the price.

nos

[noh]

our

Possessive for plural things belonging to us.

Example

Voici nos amis.

Here are our friends.

coûts

[koo]

costs

Plural of the masculine noun coût, the price or expense of something.

Example

Les coûts ont augmenté.

Costs have gone up.

de transport

duh trahns-POR

of transport

Nasal 'trans' and a silent final 't'.

Example

Un moyen de transport.

A means of transport.

Words in this phrase

[duh]

Expressing the relationship between part and a whole.

Example

Un verre de lait.

A glass of milk.

transport

[trahns-POR]

transport, shipping

Masculine noun for moving goods or people.

Example

Le transport coûte cher.

Transport is expensive.

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