Team meetings at work: Giving an update on your project

💬 The extra e in terminée is there because it describes la partie, a feminine word. It sounds the same as terminé, so this only matters in writing.

💬 On literally means "one", but in everyday speech it's the normal way to say "we". It takes the same verb form as il: on commence, on passe.

💬 French needs no word for "on" before a day: just lundi. Add le for a repeating habit: le lundi means "on Mondays".

💬 Il y a covers both "there is" and "there are", and never changes for plurals. Swap the ending: Il y a des questions ? "Are there any questions?".

🇫🇷 Saying petit softens bad news, and French colleagues often use it this way even when the delay isn't that small.

💬 French flips this around: literally "it is lacking to us", so the thing missing comes after. Il me manque un document means "I'm missing a document".

💬 Du is de + le squeezed together, always, so you never say de le client.

💬 After je peux, the next action stays in its basic dictionary form: je peux envoyer "I can send", je peux vérifier "I can check".

🇫🇷 Tacking this onto an offer makes it polite rather than pushy, leaving the decision to the person running the meeting.

💬 Serait is the "would" form of est "is". Reuse it to accept offers: Ce serait parfait "That would be perfect".

🇫🇷 Very common in French offices and fine with colleagues and managers alike, though some consider it slightly casual for very formal settings.

💬 In spoken French you can leave the question word quand at the very end, keeping normal sentence order. It's casual but perfectly normal in meetings.

💬 Normalement often means "if all goes to plan" rather than "usually"; it signals a likely but not guaranteed outcome.

💬 No little linking words needed: just fin plus the month. Début mars works the same way for "early March".

🇫🇷 Opening a deadline with normalement is a standard French hedge in meetings; people hear it as a soft commitment, not a promise.

💬 Au is à + le fused together, always. Suivant comes after the noun, as most French describing words do.

🇫🇷 This is the meeting lead's line for closing your update and moving down the agenda; you don't need to reply.

🇫🇷 Adding à vous makes the thanks feel warmer and directed at the person, a common way to return thanks after someone has thanked you or helped.