B1 · 27 words
Digital life and data protection in French
The account, the access, the backup.
Practise this list
From these 27 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
More about this list
The list every software notice is written in. One entry of it contains two false friends in a row: les paramètres de confidentialité. Les paramètres are the *settings* — the menu you open to change something: va dans les paramètres. English « parameter » is a quantity in a formula, or a boundary on what is allowed (« within the parameters of the study »), and it is never the menu. And la confidentialité is *data protection*, privacy in the legal sense, while English « confidentiality » is a duty to keep something secret — what a lawyer or a doctor owes you. So the English for the whole phrase is « privacy settings », and it shares not one word with the French. Both halves look translatable and both mislead, which is why the phrase is worth learning whole rather than in pieces.
The words
Verb (8)
récupérerto recoverVerbB2
synchroniserto synchroniseVerbB2
crypterto encryptVerbB2
pisterto trackVerbB2
se désinscrireto unsubscribeVerbB2
relancerto restartVerbB1
automatiserto automateVerbB2
parcourirto browseVerbB1
Phrase (11)
la copie de sauvegardethe backup copyPhraseB1
le stockage en ligneonline storagePhraseB1
les paramètres de confidentialitéthe privacy settingsPhraseB2
la bannière de consentementthe consent bannerPhraseB2
recharger un appareilto charge a devicePhraseA2
l’espace de stockagethe storage spacePhraseB1
partager un liento share a linkPhraseA2
l’intelligence artificielleartificial intelligencePhraseB2
à distanceremotelyPhraseB1
le centre de donnéesthe data centrePhraseB2
le renouvellement automatiquethe automatic renewalPhraseB1
Noun (m) (6)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
l’accèsthe accessNoun (m)B1
le cookiethe cookieNoun (m)B1
le plantagethe crashNoun (m)B1
le classeurthe workbook (spreadsheet)Noun (m)B2
le mot-cléthe keywordNoun (m)B1
le modèlethe modelNoun (m)B2
Noun (f) (2)
Grammar for these: Definite article: le, la, les · Indefinite article: un, une
les autorisationsthe permissionsNoun (f)B2
la notificationthe notificationNoun (f)B1
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