Comment dit-on "What if..." en francais? Si, pour exemple, je voudrais poser une question: "What if you we run into problems with the paperwork" ou quelque chose comme ca?
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Thu, October 7, 2004 - 3:32 PMI usually just say "ET SI....." I lived in France for 9 years and work in a French school but I'm not French so get a second opinion. -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Fri, October 8, 2004 - 7:27 AMFrench is my mother tongue. "Et si..." is the correct way to translate "what if"
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Fri, October 8, 2004 - 7:27 AMFrench is my mother tongue. "Et si..." is the correct way to translate "what if" -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Fri, October 8, 2004 - 10:48 AMMerci beaucoup!
J'ai une autre question... si je veux dire "I doubt it" en francais, je dis "je m'en doute" ou "je doute"? -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Fri, October 22, 2004 - 3:45 PMIl faut dire "J'en doute"
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Thu, August 11, 2005 - 12:20 PMMy mother tongue is french too. I work as a reporter for a french paper based in an english canadian city. To make appropriate english to french translations is one of the requierment of my job.
I disagree with Beaudoin: "Et si" is not the correct translation for "what if". This is what we call a "literal translation", a form of anglicism.
I would rather suggest the use of "Supposons que". -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Thu, August 11, 2005 - 4:37 PMJust weighing in: Et si. Just make sure you use the imperfect form of the verb. "Et si on voulait acheter du pain..." -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Thu, August 11, 2005 - 9:11 PMI think "supposons que" would be appropriate but I wouldn't use it because it sounds too "heavy" , "wordy".
I would tend to use "et puis, si..." because of the context of the sentence.
ps. relax people, no one owns the "truth" about languages, it all depends on places and context ; )
Bonjour à tous et à toutes!
Véronique xxx -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 10:13 AMSorry Veronique, for French you're wrong. The French Academy owns the "truth" when it comes to French.
www.academie-francaise.fr/index.html
We do not have an equivalent in English but the French take it very seriously. -
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Sun, August 14, 2005 - 12:12 PMThank you for the site of "L'academie Francaise".
Wow, it's a very nice one. -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Sun, August 14, 2005 - 1:43 PMWell,
to say that " l' académie française " owns the truth about french language is also very subjective.
It is almost like a religion...
I believe in it for the most part but I am not a "fundamentalist".
If there was a similar organization for english, it would probably be located in England. American english would then become a "dialect".
It is not so clear cut in my opinion.
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Mon, August 15, 2005 - 8:19 AMAbout the Académie Française, this modern organisation.
Founded in the 18th century, L'Académie elected it's first non-male board member (i.e. a woman) in the late 1980's. I believe it was Marguerite Yourcenar.
Since then, a great total of four more women have been elected. -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Tue, August 16, 2005 - 1:13 AML'Académie française was founded in 1635. -
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Tue, August 16, 2005 - 7:47 AM...in the 17th century, then. So it took them 320 years to get their first women onboard.
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Re: Cette phrase en francais?
Wed, September 14, 2005 - 7:56 PMWhat do you expect. They are elitists who want to halt the natural order of languge, and define for all how things *really* should be... as if that could EVER happen.
Language lives, and I'm more than amused when i see things like CD become norm despite the "correctly identified DC" or at the very least, spelled out;' and "a" being frequently substiuted for propper genative "de" in spoken french.
"power to the people, right on". ;-)
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