Level A2 (Upper Beginner)
🎧 Audio by Marie Assel Cambier — native speaker & pro voice artist from France
The French Word of the Day is: le projet. Today you’ll learn its:
✅ Meaning
✅ Pronunciation
✅ Example sentences
✅ Related Words & Expressions
✅ Related lesson
Meaning
Le projet means project or plan in French. It refers to something you intend to carry out — like a task, idea, or goal you’re working on.
Pronunciation of le projet
IPA /pʁɔ.ʒɛ/ — listen and repeat to practice.
Example sentences with projet
Quels sont vos projets pour ce week-end ?
What are your plans this weekend?
La famille a beaucoup de projets pour l’avenir.
The family has a lot of plans for the future.
J’ai beaucoup de projects à faire dans la maison et je ne sais pas où commencer.
I have a lot of projects to do around the house and I don’t know where to start.
Quels sont tes projets autour de la masion cet été ?
What are your projects around the house this summer?
Related words & expressions
Nouns
- le but – the goal, objective
- le plan – the plan
- l’idée (f) – the idea
- la proposition – the proposal
- l’objectif (m) – the objective, goal
- la mission – the mission
- la tâche – the task
- l’ébauche (f) – the draft
- la stratégie – the strategy
- le cahier des charges – the project brief/specs
- le délai – the deadline
Verbs
- élaborer – to develop, design
- planifier – to plan
- mettre en œuvre – to implement
- gérer – to manage
- proposer – to propose
- présenter – to present
- lancer – to launch
- réaliser – to carry out
- mener à bien – to successfully carry out
Related Expressions
- un projet en cours – a project in progress
- un projet à long terme – a long-term project
- travailler sur un projet – to work on a project
- mener un projet de A à Z – to manage a project from start to finish
- abandonner un projet – to abandon a project
Word origin
The French word projet comes from Latin and can be broken into two parts: pro, meaning “in advance,” and jet, from the Latin verb jacere, which evolved into jeter (to throw) in Modern French.
So, a projet is quite literally “something thrown forward” — a plan or idea launched with the intention of putting it into action.
Related lesson
Et voilà ! Now that you’ve learned how to use the French word projet, take a look at this related lesson on la démarche — a word that means “approach” or “steps to take.”
