Le travail
How to talk about your job
Je suis chauffeur
Je travaille à la piscine
Je m'occupe d'un snack-bar
To say what you do, use je suis followed by the name of your job. There's no need for le or la:
To say more about what you do, use je with an appropriate verb:
Travailler and commencer are "regular" verbs which follow a predictable pattern. From the -er ending of their infinitive (the dictionary form) you can work out the other endings: je commence, vous commencez... There are similar patterns for verbs ending in -ir and -re (like finir and descendre).
Faire and ê³Ù°ù±ð are "irregular" verbs that don't follow the usual patterns :
Some verbs have an extra me (m' before a vowel). This is a reflexive verb, as the action involves just yourself, not anyone or anything else:
You may hear the following expressions when people talk about their jobs:
