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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7126 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 1 of 4 02 October 2005 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it correct to say "L'enfer pour moi c'est quand il fait chaud"? If not, how can I fix it?
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| zorglub Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 7002 days ago 441 posts - 504 votes 1 sounds Speaks: French*, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 02 October 2005 at 8:29pm | IP Logged | ||
This sounds correct to me, it is spoken French , not literary French. Written, a comma might be added: "L'enfer pour moi, c'est quand il fait chaud" Other possibilites as the "belle marquise" tirade (http://ariffart.club.fr/oupropo/oupropo05.html) , would be: "pour moi, quand il fait chaud, c'est l'enfer." "C'est l'enfer pour moi quand il fait chaud." "C'est l'enfer quand il fait chaud, pour moi ." "quand il fait chaud, c'est l'enfer pour moi ." "quand il fait chaud, pour moi, c'est l'enfer ." I'm not kidding, these are all correct ! But "L'enfer, pour moi, c'est quand il fait chaud" would not bear the same meaning. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7378 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 4 03 October 2005 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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What exactly do you want to say? I think the word order is a bit peculiar and those suggested by Zorglub sound more natural.
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| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7126 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 4 of 4 03 October 2005 at 6:36am | IP Logged | ||
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It's an assignment for school. I'm supposed to write a story in French with a "hell" sentence as an opener, and this was the format she gave us (L'enfer pour moi c'est quand...)
Thanks for your help, zorglub and administrator! I'll fix it :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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