Professions and Job Titles
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1. psychologue (psychologist)
2. médecin (doctor)
3. expert-comptable/experte-comptable (CPA/chartered accountant)
4. architecte (architect)
5. enseignant/enseignante (teacher)
6. infirmier/infirmière (nurse)
7. agent/agente immobilier (real-estate agent)
8. artiste (artist)
9. charpentier/charpentière (carpenter)
10. astronaute (astronaut)
11. agent(e) de change (stockbroker)
12. marchand/marchande (merchant)
13. pompier/pompière (firefighter)
14. gérant/gérante (manager)
15. soldat (soldier)
16. caissier/caissière (cashier)
17. informaticien/informaticienne (computer scientist)
18. homme/femme politique (politician)
19. mécanicien/mécanicienne (mechanic)
20. physicien/physicienne (physicist)
Watch out: This one does not mean “physician”!
21. scientifique (scientist)
22. serveur/serveuse (waiter/waitress)
23. dessinateur/dessinatrice (designer; draughtsman)
24. écrivain (writer)
25. romancier/romancière (novelist)
26. peintre (painter)
27. plombier/plombière (plumber)
28. pâtissier/pâtissière (pastry chef)
29. charcutier/charcutière (pork butcher)
30. brasseur/brasseuse (brewer)
31. boulanger/boulangère (baker)
32. boucher/bouchère (butcher)
33. coiffeur/coiffeuse (hairdresser)
34. instituteur/institutrice, professeur (teacher/professor)
Whereas we may just say “teacher” or “professor” to describe the profession of teaching, the French use enseignant (from enseigner — to teach) to describe anyone who teaches at any level.
A professeur teaches at the French equivalents of middle school, high school or college, whereas an instituteur (or maître), now called professeur des écoles, teaches elementary age children.
35. ingénieur (engineer)
37. agriculteur/ agricultrice (farmer)
(from FluentU.com)
1. psychologue (psychologist)
2. médecin (doctor)
3. expert-comptable/experte-comptable (CPA/chartered accountant)
4. architecte (architect)
5. enseignant/enseignante (teacher)
6. infirmier/infirmière (nurse)
7. agent/agente immobilier (real-estate agent)
8. artiste (artist)
9. charpentier/charpentière (carpenter)
10. astronaute (astronaut)
11. agent(e) de change (stockbroker)
12. marchand/marchande (merchant)
13. pompier/pompière (firefighter)
14. gérant/gérante (manager)
15. soldat (soldier)
16. caissier/caissière (cashier)
17. informaticien/informaticienne (computer scientist)
18. homme/femme politique (politician)
19. mécanicien/mécanicienne (mechanic)
20. physicien/physicienne (physicist)
Watch out: This one does not mean “physician”!
21. scientifique (scientist)
22. serveur/serveuse (waiter/waitress)
23. dessinateur/dessinatrice (designer; draughtsman)
24. écrivain (writer)
25. romancier/romancière (novelist)
26. peintre (painter)
27. plombier/plombière (plumber)
28. pâtissier/pâtissière (pastry chef)
29. charcutier/charcutière (pork butcher)
30. brasseur/brasseuse (brewer)
31. boulanger/boulangère (baker)
32. boucher/bouchère (butcher)
33. coiffeur/coiffeuse (hairdresser)
34. instituteur/institutrice, professeur (teacher/professor)
Whereas we may just say “teacher” or “professor” to describe the profession of teaching, the French use enseignant (from enseigner — to teach) to describe anyone who teaches at any level.
A professeur teaches at the French equivalents of middle school, high school or college, whereas an instituteur (or maître), now called professeur des écoles, teaches elementary age children.
35. ingénieur (engineer)
37. agriculteur/ agricultrice (farmer)