Talk:French/Lessons/The house

monter en ascenseur?
(Sorry I do not speak english very well)

I am a french native and I have never heard "monter en ascenseur". We say "prendre l'ascenseur" but I don't know if all french people use the sentances "prendre ascenceur". May be it is regional particularity.

In french: Je suis un francophone (habitant en france) et je n'ai jamais entendu "monter en ascenseur". On dirai plutôt "prendre l'ascenseur" enfin je pense car c'est peut être un particularisme régional. Voila si un autre francophone pouvait confirmer ou infirmer.

Gringoleblanc (french) 14:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * I didn't write "monter en ascenseur" in the table, but I went head and checked in a French book. The book says, "Les Briand montent toujours en ascenseur. Ils montent au troisième étage." But that book has been wrong in other sentences, and "prendre ascenseur" does sound more reasonable. I would also like another French speaker to confirm. --Hagindaz 20:15, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Chez moi
I am not a native french speaker or I would edit this myself, but, there are a few phrases in the section "Chez moi" that I haven't seen in the French wikibook up to this point (my apologies if I missed them). "Salon" isn't in the table of vocab. Other words/phrases are "allongés," "La maison est de plein pied et ne comporte pas d'étage," and "nous y faisons pousser des fleurs". It would be helpful if those were explained below the paragraph.

Moi aussi, je crois que c'est "prendre l'ascenseur" Et en suite, le premier etage c'est toujours le deuxieme aux pays anglophones. Aux pays francophones, le rez-de-chausse est le premiere etage.

I agree that it's "prendre l'ascensuer" and not "monter en anscenseur" Plus, the "premier etage" is always the second floor in English-speaking countries. In French-speaking countries, the "rez-de-chausse" is the first floor.

toute petite
Just to note that "toute" behaves strangely as an adverb here, in that is agrees with petite (the adjective it is modifying) when that is in a feminine form. So this would give "la cuisine est toute petite" in the singular and "les cuisines sont toutes petites", in the plural, but "le bureau est tout petit" and "les bureaux sonts tout petits". (ref "A Comprehensive French Grammar" 6th edn by Glanville Price, p231.) Recent Runes (talk) 18:40, 26 July 2010 (UTC)