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That's not proper English. You can't have "employs around hundred" because that's gibberish. It has to be either "employs around A hundred" or "employs around ONE hundred".
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With a slight difference. "To hire someone" refers to the act of engaging them (se faire engager (ou) se faire embaucher). Subsequently, they are employed.
what's the difference between "employer" and "embaucher"? "to employ" and "to hire" seem the same to me. But I'm no native English speaker.
To hire is the one-time act of bringing a person on board initially. Once they are working for you over a period of time, you are employing them. I employ 10 people but I am going to hire one more - then I will employ 11.
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See the answer from n6zs above. "employer" = "to employ" is to use employees (usually for a period of time). "Embaucher" = "to hire" is just getting them onboard.
it can be it (the company) because company is also female in French, but without any context, we can't know.
I put, "She employs about one hundred staff" and it was wrong. In a previous question "personnes" to "staff" was allowed. Why not here?
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I don't think « personnes » to "staff" should be accepted. The word for "staff" is « personnel », so "She employs about one hundred staff" would best be translated as « Elle emploie environ cent personnels ».
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Small remark here: "Personnel" is uncountable, do not use "personnels" (the only exception is when you refer to multiple categories of staff). See here: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/personnel
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Merci. I was mistaken then. So, is there any way to directly translate plural "staff" as in "individual members of staff", or is « personnes » the only possible word here?
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sean.mullen: Even if you asked your question about three years ago, I'll try to answer it today (A Frenchman would say: 'Mieux vaut tard que jamais'). You ask me how to translate plural "staff". It could be possible to say : "Il y a, dans cette entreprise, environ cent MEMBRES du personnel". I hope, my answer doesn't come too late.
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Thanks for the addition!
For what it's worth, the English equivalent of the idiom you shared is: "Better late than never!" :)
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"Cent" = 100, not "a 100". You can avoid this issue by saying "a hundred" or "one hundred", i.e., spelling it out. But we do not use an article with a numeral.
Unfortunately not, it was marked wrong cause it wants us to say 'one hundred'
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If you were referring to a company i.e. « une entreprise » doing the employing, you would use « elle » in French and "it" in English! :)
I keep writing the right answer but it keeps saying I'm wrong like seriously??
All I missed was the point at the end of the sentence and it told me I was wrong
Who is it?????? It employs where is the article??? can this be accurate.
Here, it "referes" to the company. Elle (l'entreprise) emploie environ 100 personnes.
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What was your full answer because it appears "she" has been accepted for others before! :)
Sooo, il/elle can also replace nouns like the English it does, right? I imagine elle here to be une entreprise :/
In the USA one often sees signs saying "now hiring"on shop windows, inviting passersby to apply for the job. They never use the word "employing".
