#211 Sharing a Schedule｜French Business Phrases

When you are working on meetings or projects, it is often necessary to share your schedule with others.

By sharing meeting dates and planned tasks in advance, you can help the entire team coordinate their work more smoothly.

In this section, I will explain useful French expressions for sharing schedules, together with a conversation example and key grammatical points.

Dialogue

A

Je voulais vous informer de mon planning pour cette semaine.
（I wanted to inform you of my schedule for this week.）

B

Très bien. Qu’avez-vous prévu ?
（Very well. What do you have planned?）

A

Lundi matin, je travaillerai sur le rapport du projet.
（On Monday morning, I will work on the project report.）

B

Et l’après-midi ?
（And in the afternoon?）

A

L’après-midi, j’ai une réunion avec l’équipe marketing.
（In the afternoon, I have a meeting with the marketing team.）

B

D’accord. Merci d’avoir partagé ces informations.
（All right. Thank you for sharing this information.）

A

Avec plaisir. N’hésitez pas à me prévenir si quelque chose change.
（My pleasure. Please let me know if anything changes.）

1. Sharing Your Schedule

When you want to share your work schedule, you can say the following:

Here, “voulais” is the imperfect form of the verb “vouloir.”

In French, the imperfect is often used in requests, offers, or introductory remarks in order to sound more polite.

In addition, the structure “informer + someone + de + information” means “to inform someone about something.”

Therefore, “vous informer de mon planning” literally means “to inform you about my schedule.” In this sentence, the person receiving the information is expressed by the object pronoun “vous.”

2. Explaining Days and Time Periods

When sharing a schedule, combining the day of the week with a time period makes your explanation clearer.

In French, the names of the days of the week are usually used without a preposition. Words that indicate time periods typically follow the day directly.

If you remember the pattern “day + time period,” it becomes easy to use in conversation.

However, when you refer to a regular weekly schedule, French uses the definite article.

Here, “le lundi ” does not refer to a specific Monday. Instead, it describes a habitual schedule.

3. Confirming Possible Schedule Changes

When sharing your schedule, it is also common to mention possible changes and ask others to inform you if anything changes.

The expression “N’hésitez pas à + infinitive” means “please feel free to …”

Although the form is grammatically an imperative, it is commonly used as a polite request in business emails and conversations.

In the second part of the sentence, “si quelque chose change” expresses a condition meaning “if something changes.”

The conjunction “si ” corresponds to the English word “if.”

Since “quelque chose” (something) is a third-person singular subject, the verb “changer” appears in the present tense form “change.”

Summary