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"Le" Femmes

Postby Tzarina111 on Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:41 pm

Hello,
not to be a Ms. Know-it-all, but the proper french phrase for "the women" is not "Le Femmes".
L'homme - the man
Les hommes - the men
La femme - the woman
Les femmes - the women

I know, "who cares", but being a lover of language, I just felt I had to say something.
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BTW: For examples: http://mode.lemonde.fr/news/mode/les-succes-annonces-de-l-ete-2010-1467/
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Re: "Le" Femmes

Postby Bonzai on Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:55 pm

Either / Or ...

"Le Femme" = "woman"

"La Femme" = "The Woman"

just for example ...

Le Femme Boutique - https://p2.secure.hostingprod.com/@www.lefemmeboutique.com/ssl/store/
Le Femme Finishing School - http://www.lefemmefinishingschool.com/

French Translation Online

http://translation2.paralink.com/
http://translation.babylon.com/French
http://www.freetranslation.com/

Pierre, help us out here, I think you know French, lol.
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Re: "Le" Femmes

Postby Tzarina111 on Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:33 pm

The sites you listed are in English and probably American. Here is an article from the French Newspaper Le Monde:

Je vois… des besaces frangées, parfois portées en bandoulière (Louis Vuitton), des sacs seaux (Louis Vuitton encore), mais on peut se passer de la banane et du sac à dos (Louis Vuitton, toujours). Aux pieds, on opte pour des sabots ( ??!!) comme ceux de Chanel, Vuitton, Céline, Walter Steiger… Mais comme on n’est pas vraiment folle – on fait seulement semblant ! –, on porte plutôt des plateformes en cuir naturel à semelle de bois ou de liège, en piochant chez Céline : le cuir sera brun, naturel ou ne sera pas ! La sandale de pèlerin, façon Chloé ou Giuseppe Zanotti remplace aussi définitivement la spartiate. Mais on peut conserver ses bandales, entre boots et sandales, ses multibrides compensées qui enserrent la cheville façon bondage (Louboutin, Givenchy, Burberry, Fendi). Enfin, pour les filles pointues qui avaient collectionné les chaussures d’Opening Ceremony en 2009, on ne saurait que trop conseiller les boots open toes d’Alexander Wang, à la fois edgy et chic.

The phrase in bold means "the girls", fem plural direct object pronoun.

I may be wrong, but that's what I learned in 1st semester French and don't remember ever seeing a msc singular direct object pronoun used with a fem plural noun.

Not putting down the site, just FYI for those who care to not give Europeans more ammunition to shoot us down all the time.
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Re: "Le" Femmes

Postby Dan on Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:35 am

Why not ask our resident French expert? I bet he knows!!
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Re: "Le" Femmes

Postby Bai Hu on Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:34 pm

that's why we should call them chicks... :D
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