Trends & Statistics Vocabulary
Trends & Statistics Vocabulary
Statistical French reaches for rounded fraction words as often as exact percentages — recognizing these words fluently matters more at B2 than memorizing precise numbers.
Grammar Comparison
Grammar Comparison
Rounding numbers with vocabulary, not just digits
Environ un tiers des Français... / La majorité des sondés...
About a third of French people... / The majority of those surveyed...
Statistical French reaches for rounded fraction words (un tiers, la moitié, la majorité) as often as exact percentages — recognizing these words fluently matters more at B2 than memorizing precise numbers, since exam listening and reading passages describe data qualitatively as often as numerically, just as English news reporting favors 'roughly a third' or 'the majority' over exact figures in running prose.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
| French | Pronunciation | English |
|---|---|---|
| un sondage | an sohn-DAHZH | a survey / poll |
| la majorité | lah mah-zho-ree-TAY | the majority |
| la minorité | lah mee-noh-ree-TAY | the minority |
| un tiers | an tyair | a third |
| environ | ahn-vee-ROHN | approximately |
| en moyenne | ahn mwah-YEN | on average |
| selon une étude | suh-LOHN oon ay-TOOD | according to a study |
| le pourcentage | luh poor-sahn-TAHZH | the percentage |
| une hausse | oon ohs | a rise / increase |
| une baisse | oon behs | a fall / decrease |
| significatif / significative | see-nyee-fee-kah-TEEF | significant |
| un échantillon | an ay-shahn-tee-YOHN | a sample |