There was some discussion at the French conversation group last night about job applications – one member of the group has been offered a job in an international school in southern France and will be moving there soon. <\/p>\n
The word application<\/strong> exists in French, but it’s not the one you use when applying for a job. Instead it is used when applying a lotion or treatment or an invention or method. Also when implementing a decision or measure or enforcing the law. It is also used for software app(lication)s.<\/p>\n Expressions featuring the word include:<\/p>\n – mettre en application = to implement, apply, enforce An application for a job is une demande<\/em> or une candidature<\/em>, and a job application form is un formulaire<\/em> or un bulletin de demande d’emploi<\/em>. To apply for a job is poser une candidature pour un emploi \/ poste<\/em> or postuler \/ poser sa candidature pour un emploi<\/em>.<\/p>\n The French word appliquer<\/em> can mean ‘to apply (a lotion or cream; or an invention or method), to implement (a decision); to enfore (the law); or to give’. The reflexive version of this verb, s’appliquer<\/em>, can mean ‘to apply oneself (to doing sth); to apply to (the law)’ and s’appliquer sur<\/em> means ‘to fit over’.<\/p>\n The English word apply comes from French, and the French word appliquer<\/em> comes from the Latin applic\u0101re<\/em> (to apply, to put, to stick, to spread; to impose, to enforce), from applic\u014d<\/em> (I apply, attach, join to), from ad-<\/em> (to; towards) +\u200e plic\u014d<\/em> \u200e(fold; arrive), from the Proto-Indo-European *ple\u1e31-<\/em> \u200e(to plait, to weave), which also the root of the English words plait, plat and pleat.<\/p>\n
\n– application cruciale = mission-critical application
\n– application informatique = IT application
\n– \u00e9cole d’application = officers’ training school<\/p>\n