12 Responses to Do the french have no word equivalent to the English “entrepreneur”?

1. AnArdRi says:

   February 21, 2011 at 5:11 am

   You’ve been studying at the Bush School of Language, haven’t you?
2. Boo. says:

   February 22, 2011 at 4:06 am

   They do – it’s entrepreneur. It’s a french word.

   ahn-truh-pruh-nur or ahn-truh-pruh-noor
   and the accent is on the last syllable.
3. OD says:

   February 25, 2011 at 12:02 pm

   I believe entrepreneur is from the French.
4. nicam says:

   February 26, 2011 at 6:13 am

   ya what u say is quite correct enteprenueris not in the english dictionary
5. connie b says:

   February 28, 2011 at 10:29 am

   the word entrepreneur came into usage in the US from France in 1828 . .the french meaning …one who undertakes…
   we did not change the spelling or pronunciation of the word..hence entrepreneur is entrepreneur…….and still kept the basic meaning to enterprise …
6. Caicos Turkey says:

   March 2, 2011 at 9:47 am

   Entrepreneur is pronounced (in English) on truh pruh nuhr.

   The French have a curious word for the English cul-de-sac, which is too rude for them. They call it “impasse”, which again has made its way into English.
7. Offkey says:

   March 5, 2011 at 4:55 pm

   “Entrepreneur” is indeed a French word originally.

   (For Caicos Turkey) By the way, “cul-de-sac” IS French, and we also use it.
   “Impasse” is “blind alley”.

   Both words are more or less synonym, but “cul-de-sac” has a wider meaning (any space that has no way out).

   PS: cul-de-sac literally translates into “bottom of bag” (or *ss of bag)
8. i e - B r a z i l says:

   March 6, 2011 at 3:57 pm

   I dunno!

   Once I attended to a lecture at university and the lecturer said all the time that word – he was fom Standford university.

   Even today I do not know what it exactly means! My dictionary simply do not have it!

   ie
   ps: do you know Enya? I’m getting to know her work weeks ago…
9. Twoeyes says:

   March 7, 2011 at 1:35 pm

   Who knows, but the french try real hard to have a different word for almost everything.
10. Sterz says:

    March 7, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    The same reason the Germans don’t have a word for “kindergarten” 😉

    I guess the English language had to take the French word. because the literal English translation ‘undertaker’ already existed – with a quite different meaning.
    The word is pronounced to rhyme with “manure” *uncontrollable giggle*
11. sunflower says:

    March 10, 2011 at 1:30 pm

    I think that French people have no other word, meaning “enerpreneur”.
12. Nadira says:

    March 12, 2011 at 7:01 am

    I believe that not because “the empreendedora” word already is of the French.