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Use Reporting a Reproducible Software Bug to practice French conversation, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and quizzes.
Dialogue
A
La fonction d’exportation échoue chaque fois que j’inclus des résultats filtrés.
lah fohnk-SYON deks-por-ta-SYON ay-SHOO shak fwah kuh zhan-KLEW day ray-zool-TAH fee-TRAY. The export feature fails whenever I include filtered results.
B
Cela semble reproductible, ce qui facilite grandement le diagnostic.
suh-LAH sahmbl ruh-proh-dewk-TEE-bl, suh KEE fah-see-LEET grahnd-MAHN luh dee-ahg-nos-TEEK. That sounds reproducible, which makes troubleshooting much easier.
A
Je l’ai testé avec des données non filtrées, et l’exportation a fonctionné normalement.
zhuh lay tay-STAY ah-VEK day doh-NAY nohn fee-TRAY, ay leks-por-ta-SYON ah fohnk-syo-NAY nor-mal-MAHN. I tested it with unfiltered data, and export worked normally.
B
La logique des filtres interagit peut-être avec le module d’exportation.
lah loh-ZHEEK day FEEL-tr an-tay-rah-ZHEE puh-TETR ah-VEK luh moh-DEWL deks-por-ta-SYON. Then the filter logic may be interacting with the export module.
A
Je peux envoyer un fichier d’exemple qui ne contient aucune information sensible.
zhuh puh ahn-vwah-YAY uhn fee-SHYAY eg-ZAHM-pl kuh nuh kohn-TEE-ahn oh-KURN an-for-ma-SYON sahn-SEEBL. I can send a sample file without sensitive information.
B
Cela nous aiderait à isoler le problème en toute sécurité.
suh-LAH noo-zay-DRAY ah ee-zoh-LAY luh proh-BLEHM ahn toot say-kew-ree-TAY. That would help us isolate the issue safely.
A
Pouvez-vous confirmer si les journaux contiennent des informations privées ?
poo-vay-VOO kohn-feer-MAY see lay zhoor-NOH kohn-TYEN day-zan-for-ma-SYON pree-VAY? Please confirm whether logs include any private content.
B
Je vérifierai cela avant de demander les journaux.
zhuh vay-ree-fee-RAY suh-LAH ah-VAHN duh duh-mahn-DAY lay zhoor-NOH. I will verify that before requesting the logs.Word by Word
La
In 'La fonction', this means 'the' before the feminine singular noun fonction. It is used as part of the noun phrase 'La fonction d’exportation'.
fonction
In 'La fonction d’exportation', this means a software feature or function. The phrase identifies the capability that fails, so fonction can be reused for a specific feature of a system.
d’exportation
In 'La fonction d’exportation', this means related to exporting or used for export. The form d’ is the shortened form of de before a vowel, and the phrase specifies which fonction is being discussed.
échoue
In 'La fonction d’exportation échoue', this means 'fails'. The form reports what the export feature does when the stated condition occurs, and it can be reused with a system component as the subject.
chaque
In 'chaque fois que', this means 'each' or 'every'. Together with fois que, it introduces a repeated condition: whenever the action in the following clause happens.
fois
In 'chaque fois que', this means an occurrence or time. The full expression 'chaque fois que' means 'whenever' or 'each time that', and it is used before a clause.
que
In 'chaque fois que j’inclus des résultats filtrés', this introduces the clause describing when the export feature fails. The expression 'chaque fois que' links a repeated event to its condition.
j’inclus
In 'j’inclus des résultats filtrés', this means 'I include'. It describes the speaker’s repeated action and can be reused with the object being included placed after the verb.
des
In 'des résultats filtrés', this is a plural article meaning some or unspecified plural items. It introduces the results that are included in the export.
résultats
In 'des résultats filtrés', this means results, such as results produced by a software search or filter. It is modified by filtrés to specify which results are involved.
filtrés
In 'des résultats filtrés', this means 'filtered' and describes résultats. Its plural masculine form matches the noun, and the pattern noun plus filtrés can describe processed results.
Cela
At the start of 'Cela semble reproductible', this means 'that' or 'it' and refers to the situation just reported. It is the subject of semble in this response.
semble
In 'Cela semble reproductible', this means 'seems' or 'sounds'. It presents an assessment rather than an absolute claim, and it can be reused before an adjective describing the situation.
reproductible
In 'Cela semble reproductible', this means reproducible: the same problem can be produced again under the relevant conditions. In software support, it describes a bug that can be reliably demonstrated.
ce
In 'ce qui facilite grandement le diagnostic', ce refers to the preceding situation as a whole. Together with qui, it forms the expression meaning 'which' or 'that', referring back to that situation.
qui
In 'ce qui facilite grandement le diagnostic', qui introduces the relative clause and functions as its subject. The full expression 'ce qui' refers to the preceding fact or situation.
facilite
In 'ce qui facilite grandement le diagnostic', this means 'makes easier' or 'facilitates'. The subject is the preceding situation, and the object is le diagnostic.
grandement
In 'facilite grandement le diagnostic', this means 'greatly'. It intensifies the effect of facilite and can be placed with a verb to show a substantial degree.
le
In 'le diagnostic', this means 'the' before the masculine singular noun diagnostic. It forms the specific noun phrase referring to the troubleshooting process.
diagnostic
In 'facilite grandement le diagnostic', this means troubleshooting or diagnosis of the software issue. It is the process made easier by having a reproducible problem.
Je
In 'Je l’ai testé', this means 'I' and is the subject of the testing action. It is used before the verb when the speaker reports their own test.
l’ai
In 'Je l’ai testé', l’ refers to 'it' and ai is the auxiliary form of avoir. Together, l’ai places the object before testé in the expression meaning 'I tested it'.
testé
In 'Je l’ai testé', this means 'tested'. It is used after l’ai to report that the speaker tested the issue or feature, and the pattern 'l’ai testé' can be reused when referring back to an object.
avec
In 'avec des données non filtrées', this means 'with'. It introduces the data used during the test and can be reused before the material or object accompanying an action.
données
In 'avec des données non filtrées', this means data. The phrase identifies the material used for testing, and données can be followed by an adjective describing the data.
non
In 'données non filtrées', non marks negation and means 'not'. Together with filtrées, it describes data that has not been filtered.
filtrées
In 'des données non filtrées', this means 'filtered' and describes données. Its feminine plural form matches the noun, while non filtrées means 'not filtered'.
et
In '..., et l’exportation a fonctionné normalement', this means 'and'. It connects the testing information with the result of the export test.
l’exportation
In 'l’exportation a fonctionné normalement', this means 'the export' or the export process. The form l’ is the shortened article before a vowel, and l’exportation is the subject of a fonctionné.
a
In 'a fonctionné normalement', this is the auxiliary form of avoir used with fonctionné. Together, the expression reports that the export worked in the completed test.
fonctionné
In 'l’exportation a fonctionné normalement', this means 'worked' or 'functioned'. It follows a in the expression a fonctionné and describes the result of the export test.
normalement
In 'a fonctionné normalement', this means 'normally'. It describes how the export worked and can be used after a verb to describe the manner of an action.
logique
In 'La logique des filtres', this means the logic or rules governing the filters. The phrase identifies the part of the software that may be involved in the interaction.
filtres
In 'La logique des filtres', this means filters. It specifies whose logic is being discussed, and the pattern 'la logique des filtres' identifies the rules associated with those filters.
interagit
In 'La logique des filtres interagit peut-être avec le module d’exportation', this means 'interacts'. The subject is the filter logic, and avec introduces the other software component involved.
peut-être
In 'interagit peut-être avec le module d’exportation', this means 'perhaps' or 'maybe' and indicates that the interaction is a possibility, not a confirmed fact. In this expression, peut contributes the possibility and être completes the expression; together, peut-être softens the statement. It is useful when proposing a possible technical cause.
module
In 'avec le module d’exportation', this means a software module or component. It is the component that may interact with the filter logic, and it follows avec in this noun phrase.
peux
In 'Je peux envoyer un fichier d’exemple', this means 'can' or 'am able to'. It expresses the speaker’s ability or offer, followed by the infinitive envoyer.
envoyer
In 'Je peux envoyer un fichier d’exemple', this means 'send'. It is the infinitive after peux and takes the file as its object.
un
In 'un fichier d’exemple', this means 'a' or 'one' before the masculine singular noun fichier. It introduces one sample file being offered.
fichier
In 'un fichier d’exemple', this means 'file'. The phrase identifies the item that can be sent, and fichier can be followed by d’exemple to specify its purpose.
d’exemple
In 'un fichier d’exemple', this means 'sample' or 'for example'. It specifies that the fichier is provided as an example for investigating the issue; d’ is the shortened form of de before a vowel.
ne
In 'ne contient aucune information sensible', ne is the first part of the negation. Together with aucune, it means that the file contains no sensitive information.
contient
In 'ne contient aucune information sensible', this means 'contains'. The subject is the sample file, and the information it contains is placed after the verb.
aucune
In 'ne contient aucune information sensible', this means 'no' or 'any' within the negative expression. Together with ne, it states that not even one item of the specified information is contained in the file.
information
In 'aucune information sensible', this means information. It is the object of contient and is further described by sensible.
sensible
In 'aucune information sensible', this means 'sensitive'. It describes the information whose absence makes the sample file safe to send.
nous
In 'Cela nous aiderait à isoler le problème', this means 'us'. It is the people who would be helped, placed before aiderait as its object.
aiderait
In 'Cela nous aiderait à isoler le problème', this means 'would help'. It describes the expected benefit of receiving the sample file and is followed by the people helped and the action made possible.
à
In 'nous aiderait à isoler le problème', à introduces the infinitive isoler after aiderait. It links the help to the action that the support team could perform.
isoler
In 'à isoler le problème', this means 'isolate'. It describes separating or identifying the specific issue, and the object le problème follows the infinitive.
problème
In 'isoler le problème', this means 'problem' or 'issue'. It is the issue the support team wants to identify, and it follows the verb isoler as its object.
en
In 'en toute sécurité', en is part of the expression meaning 'safely' or 'in complete safety'. It introduces the manner in which the issue would be isolated.
toute
In 'en toute sécurité', this means 'complete' or 'whole'. Together with sécurité, it strengthens the safety expression and contributes to the meaning 'in complete safety'.
sécurité
In 'en toute sécurité', this means 'safety'. The full expression describes carrying out an action safely, which is important when handling sample data.
Pouvez
In 'Pouvez-vous confirmer', this means 'can' or 'are you able to'. With vous and inversion, it forms a polite formal or plural question asking for confirmation.
vous
In 'Pouvez-vous confirmer', this means 'you'. It is the subject of the inverted question and identifies the person or people being asked to confirm something.
confirmer
In 'Pouvez-vous confirmer si les journaux contiennent des informations privées ?', this means 'confirm'. It is the infinitive after Pouvez-vous and introduces the information the listener is asked to verify.
si
In 'confirmer si les journaux contiennent des informations privées', si means 'whether' or 'if'. It introduces the embedded question about the contents of the logs.
les
In 'les journaux', this means 'the' before a plural noun. It refers to the specific logs relevant to the support investigation.
journaux
In 'les journaux contiennent des informations privées', this means software logs. It is the subject of contiennent and can be used when discussing records produced by a system.
contiennent
In 'les journaux contiennent des informations privées', this means 'contain'. The logs are the subject, and the information they may contain follows the verb.
informations
In 'des informations privées', this means information. It is the possible content of the logs and is described by privées.
privées
In 'des informations privées', this means 'private'. It describes the information that might appear in the logs and matches the feminine plural noun informations.
vérifierai
In 'Je vérifierai cela', this means 'will verify'. It expresses the speaker’s future commitment to check the matter, and it can be reused with the thing being checked after the verb.
avant
In 'avant de demander les journaux', this means 'before'. It places the verification earlier than the later request for the logs.
de
In 'avant de demander les journaux', de links avant to the following infinitive demander. The construction 'avant de' means 'before doing something'.
demander
In 'avant de demander les journaux', this means 'request' or 'ask for'. It is the infinitive after de, and les journaux is the object being requested.
Grammar Points
avant de + infinitif
Je vérifierai les journaux avant de confirmer.
zhuh vay-ree-fee-RAY lay zhoor-NOH ah-VAHN duh kohn-feer-MAY.I will check the logs before confirming.
After avant de, use the infinitive when the subject is the same in both actions.
conditionnel présent : aiderait
Ce module aiderait à isoler le problème.
suh moh-DEWL ay-duh-RAY ah ee-zoh-LAY luh proh-BLEHM.This module would help isolate the problem.
The conditional expresses a hypothetical result or a cautiously suggested benefit.
French Vocabulary
chaque fois que
conj
shak fwah kuh
whenever; every time that
diagnostic
noun
dyahg-nos-TEEK
troubleshooting; diagnosis
échouer
verb
ay-SHWEH
to fail
échoue
exportation
noun
eks-por-ta-SYON
export
d’exportation
faciliter
verb
fah-see-lee-TAY
to make easier; to facilitate
facilite
filtré
adj
fee-TRAY
filtered
filtrés
fonction
noun
fohnk-SYON
feature; function
grandement
adv
grahnd-MAHN
greatly; considerably
inclure
verb
an-KLEWR
to include
j’inclus
reproductible
adj
ruh-proh-dewk-TEE-bl
reproducible
résultat
noun
ray-zool-TAH
result
résultats
tester
verb
tay-STAY
to test
testé
Quiz
Spelling
Tap the letters to spell the word.
to make easier; to facilitate
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facilitefiltered
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filtrésfeature; function
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fonctionto fail