Learn French Technology Vocabulary: 149 Flashcards and the Québec Words to Swap
149 English to French tech flashcards: clavier, pare-feu, mot de passe, chiffrement. Plus which answers are Québec French and the genders the deck leaves out.
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Flip It deck HL4674, French Technology, gives you 149 English→French cards for everything you click, plug in or reboot. One thing to know before you start: a dozen answers are Québec French, the official terminology pushed by the Office québécois de la langue française. In Paris you'll hear different words. Here is how to learn the deck and sort the two.
Study this deck: French Technology
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Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Sample cards
| English | French (deck) |
|---|---|
| keyboard | clavier |
| password | mot de passe |
| search engine | moteur de recherche |
| firewall | pare-feu |
| bandwidth | bande passante |
| backup | sauvegarde |
| encryption | chiffrement |
| operating system | système d'exploitation |
| RAM | mémoire vive |
| shortcut | raccourci |
Vocabulary you'll cover
Hardware: ordinateur portable, ordinateur de bureau, écran tactile, imprimante, haut-parleur, clé USB, disque dur, processeur, carte graphique, batterie, chargeur, routeur. Actions: télécharger, installer, désinstaller, cliquer, défiler, actualiser, copier, coller, couper, enregistrer, supprimer, numériser, redémarrer. Interface: navigateur, onglet, fenêtre, barre d'outils, icône, curseur, paramètres, fonctionnalité. Accounts and security: nom d'utilisateur, compte, se connecter, s'inscrire, déconnexion, confidentialité, mise à jour, correctif, mise à niveau.
Tip 1: tag the Québec cards
Keep these if you're heading to Montréal; swap them if you're heading to France:
| Deck (Québec) | Everyday France |
|---|---|
| courriel | mail / e-mail (courriel = formal writing) |
| téléphone intelligent | smartphone |
| téléverser | mettre en ligne, uploader |
| webcaméra | webcam |
| bogue | bug |
| nuage | le cloud |
| gel (freeze) | l'écran est figé, ça plante |
Also note écouteurs = earbuds; over-ear headphones are un casque.
Tip 2: add the gender, merge the doubles
No card gives an article, and gender is where tech French trips learners: la souris, le clavier, un écran, une imprimante, le logiciel, la clé USB, le disque dur. Rewrite each back with le/la/un/une before your first review.
The deck also maps several fronts to one back: connection and login both = connexion, register and sign up both = s'inscrire, version and release both = version, processor and CPU both = processeur. Study those English→French only, or you'll get stuck guessing which English word the card wants.
Quick plan
Do the 60 near-cognates first (internet, virus, application, modem, format, notification…): they cost almost nothing. Spend real reviews on the false-looking ones (logiciel, matériel, pare-feu, chiffrement, bande passante) and on the verb pairs télécharger / téléverser, se connecter / se déconnecter, installer / désinstaller.
For daily-life words beyond the screen, see our French A2 everyday vocabulary guide.
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