Vocabulary
Objective: Describe technological change, discuss the impact of automation and AI, and express a structured opinion on digital transformation.
| French | English | French | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| l'intelligence artificielle | artificial intelligence | un algorithme | an algorithm |
| l'automatisation | automation | un robot | a robot |
| la robotique | robotics | un capteur | a sensor |
| le cloud | the cloud | un serveur | a server |
| les données | data | une base de données | a database |
| la cybersécurité | cybersecurity | un pare-feu | a firewall |
The quantifier tous agrees with the masculine plural noun emplois and takes the -s ending. The form tout belongs to the singular.
The English term cloud is standard in French digital contexts, while nuage is its literal translation and is not used alone. The official term informatique en nuage appears only in formal documentation.
Intelligence artificielle is the standard French term. The verb transformer takes a direct object.
Automatisation names the process, and tâches répétitives names what it replaces. The verb takes a direct object.
Stockées agrees with the feminine plural subject données. The adjective sécurisés agrees with serveurs.
Cybersécurité names the field. The verb investir dans takes the preposition dans before the domain.
Cyberattaque names the event. The verb paralyser takes a direct object.
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| un réseau social |
| a social network |
| une connexion |
| a connection |
| la protection des données | data protection | un mot de passe | a password |
The verb protéger takes the preposition contre before the threat. The preposition de introduces the source of the protection, not the danger.
The indefinite article des is used before the noun that follows par in this construction. The definite article les would imply all machines in existence.
The concessive opener il est vrai que acknowledges the opposing view before the pivot that follows.
Toutefois introduces the counter-argument after the concession in the previous sentence. The register is formal and belongs to written argument.
En définitive introduces the conclusion. The noun phrase accompagnement des travailleurs is nominalized from the verb accompagner.