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Starrie
Jan 4, 2007, 06:06 PM
:confused: Okay. I was told subject+verb+adjective+Cir(time,location) = A proper french sentence and some about Prepositions such as Dans, à et de. My problem is forming a sentence.

For example:

ENGLISH

Musicians specialize in different music types from jazz to rock.

FRENCH

Musicians spéialité dans différent musique genree de jazz à rock.

forgetting about the possible spelling errors is this correct should something be flipped. :o :confused:

dmatos
Jan 4, 2007, 08:45 PM
1. French often uses many more participles than English. For instance, I think the subject of this sentence should be "Les musiciens" rather than just "musiciens."
2. I think you have the incorrect translation for specialize. The unconjugated verb is "se specialiser."
3. Your "musique genree" is a pair of nouns side by side, and an awkward (therefore probably incorrect) construction. The object in this sentence is really the genres, and the "music" portion is really short-form in english for the adjective "musical." Remember that in French, the adjectives follow the nouns.

Starrie
Jan 4, 2007, 09:01 PM
:O. Okay Let me take this all in. Les musicians makes so much sesne Okay I got that down

Zhou tai
May 1, 2007, 10:13 AM
Les musiciens se spécialise dans de différents genres de musique allant du jazz au rock

Lowtax4eva
May 1, 2007, 10:23 AM
Les musiciens se spécialise en différents genres de musique du jazz au rock

Dans des can be replaced with en and allant doesn't need to be there