C2 · 27 words
Property valuation in French
What a plot of land is worth, and how that is argued.
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The twenty-fourth entry is l’évaluation du portefeuille, and the long noun in it is a compound a reader can open with a knife. It is porter plus feuille, carry plus sheet, and it began life as a flat case for loose papers. « Portfolio » is the same object built by the same rule, except that English did not build it: the word was borrowed from Italian portafoglio, from portare and foglio, which is porter and feuille translated piece by piece. From there the two words cover different ground. The holding of shares and bonds is shared, and so is the minister, since « a minister without portfolio » answers un ministre sans portefeuille exactly. What English never took is the first and plainest sense, because le portefeuille is also the thing in a jacket pocket with banknotes in it, and for that « portfolio » is useless: the word is « wallet ». So inside a valuation file the noun behaves itself, and outside one a reader has to decide each time whether the object is worth ten million or twenty euros.
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Noun (1)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
les frais d’acquisitionthe acquisition costsNounC2
Noun (f) (14)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
la valeur vénalethe market valueNoun (f)C2
la date d’expertisethe valuation dateNoun (f)C2
la méthode par le revenuthe income approachNoun (f)C2
la méthode par le coûtthe cost approachNoun (f)C2
la provision pour vacancethe vacancy allowanceNoun (f)C2
la charge d’entretien courantthe recurring maintenance costNoun (f)C2
la durée de vie résiduellethe remaining useful lifeNoun (f)C2
la valeur du terrainthe land valueNoun (f)C2
la valeur foncière de référencethe guideline land valueNoun (f)C2
la performance énergétiquethe energy performanceNoun (f)C2
la valeur hypothécairethe mortgage lending valueNoun (f)C2
la quotité de financementthe loan-to-value ratioNoun (f)C2
l’évaluation du portefeuillethe portfolio valuationNoun (f)C2
la durée de détentionthe holding periodNoun (f)C2
Noun (m) (12)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
le taux de capitalisationthe capitalisation rateNoun (m)C2
le revenu net d’exploitationthe net operating incomeNoun (m)C2
le rendement brutthe gross yieldNoun (m)C2
l’usage optimalthe highest and best useNoun (m)C2
le locataire en placethe sitting tenantNoun (m)C2
l’encadrement des loyersrent controlNoun (m)C2
l’audit techniquethe technical surveyNoun (m)C2
le retard d’entretienthe maintenance backlogNoun (m)C2
l’inventaire des sites polluésthe register of contaminated sitesNoun (m)C2
l’actif échouéthe stranded assetNoun (m)C2
le rapport d’expertisethe valuation reportNoun (m)C2
le taux de sortiethe exit yieldNoun (m)C2
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