About "vite" and "depart"

Hi folks,

Can vite means "immediate" in English

Un nouveau job vite
An immediate new job.

Can "depart" mean "start/beginning"

J'ai envie de prendre un nouveau depart professionelle
I want to take up a new professional start/beginning

B.R.
Stephen L

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Permalink Reply by Neil Coffey on January 31, 2010 at 4:34pm

Stephen,

Your second sentence is fine (just watch the spelling of professionnel). The word départ isn't the general word for "start", but in a few expressions like this it works.

In your first sentnce, remember that vite is an adverb (i.e. it means "fast" in the sense of "quickly", not in the sense of "quick").

For "immediately", you could say immédiatement or tout de suite. There are more formal expressions such as dans les plus brefs délais.

Remember that job in French can imply an informal/demeaning job. The most neutral word is generally emploi, though in informal speech it would be common to use the word boulot, e.g. je dois trouver un nouveau boulot.

Neil