Technologie

French / Français	English / Anglais
astronaute	astronaut (male or female)
clonage	cloning
cloner	to clone
communications	communications
controversé	controversial
création	development
débattre de	to debate (more formal)
découverte	discovery
découvrir	to discover
déontologie	ethics
développement	development
développer	to develop
discutable	controversial
discuter de	to debate (less formal)
douteux	controversial
effectuer une expérience	to carry out / conduct / do / perform an experiment
espace	space
éthique	ethical
éthique	ethics
expérience	experiment
expérimenter	to experiment
exploration	exploration
explorer	to explore
faire des expériences	to experiment
faire une expérience	to carry out / conduct / do / perform an experiment
gène	gene
génétiquement modifié	genetically modified
mise au point	development
moral	ethical
morale	ethics
nouveauté	development (a particular development)
passionnant	exciting
terre	earth
vaisseau spatial	spaceship

Key to colours

COLOUR	EXAMPLE	MEANING
pale blue	fort	a word that must change into its masculine form to reflect the gender of the thing or person it relates to
strong blue	crayon	a noun or pronoun whose gender is masculine (either it is a male person or an arbitrarily masculine-named object)
strong pink	fenêtre	a noun or pronoun whose gender is feminine (either it is a female person or an arbitrarily feminine-named object)
pale pink	belle	a word that must change into its feminine form to reflect the gender of the thing or person it relates to
grey	lancer	a word that has no specific gender and can’t be forced to change into a gender-specific form or a noun that I don’t know the gender of