Work
CDI
Letter by letterOfficialA2Meaning
contrat à durée indéterminée
The employment contract with no end date: the stable contract, the one a landlord or a bank asks for.
How it is said
cé-dé-i
Gender and article
un CDI · masculine
Where you meet it
A job advert, an employment contract, a rental application.
Example
Poste à pourvoir en CDI, 35 heures par semaine, à partir du 1er mars.
Permanent position (CDI), 35 hours a week, starting 1 March.
In the DELF
reading A2 · speaking B1
Watch out
Masculine, no dots: un CDI, des CDI (the plural takes no s). In a French secondary school, CDI means something else: the documentation centre, that is the library.
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