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Do you prefer the town or the countryside?

French translation: Vous préférez la ville ou la campagne?


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English term or phrase:Do you prefer the town or the countryside?
French translation:Vous préférez la ville ou la campagne?
Entered by: Louise Dupont
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19:09 Dec 9, 2002
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: Do you prefer the town or the countryside?
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lucy
Vous préférez la ville ou la campagne?
Explanation:
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Selected response from:

Louise Dupont
Canada
Local time: 01:51
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +8Vous préférez la ville ou la campagne?
Louise Dupont
5 +3Préférez-vous la ville ou la campagne?
Julie Martineau
5cjohnstone is right!
Arnold Baren


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
Vous préférez la ville ou la campagne?


Explanation:
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Louise Dupont
Canada
Local time: 01:51
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 497

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lise Boismenu, trad.a.: But wonder what this has to do with tech/engineering ???
2 mins

agree  Thierry LOTTE
18 mins

agree  tonnie
24 mins

agree  GILLES MEUNIER: préférez-vous
24 mins

agree  Catherine Johnstone: vous préférez est Ok, just fine to me
1 hr

agree  Arnold Baren: Préférez-vous
2 hrs

agree  Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ
5 hrs

agree  JCEC
8 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Préférez-vous la ville ou la campagne?


Explanation:
Tout simplement...

Julie Martineau
Local time: 07:51
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Odette Grille: Merci d'y mettre bon ordre...
57 mins

agree  Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ
3 hrs

agree  JCEC
6 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
cjohnstone is right!


Explanation:
I am sorry. I wrote "préférez-vous", but "vous préférez" is correct in a talk.
I guess I answered to quickly ;)

Arnold Baren
France
Local time: 07:51
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 98

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Odette Grille: too quick to apologize, as well
56 mins
  -> ;-)

neutral  Said Kaljanac a.k.a. SARAJ: both are correct: "préférez-vous" and "vous préférez"!
3 hrs
  -> Bien sûr, mais à l'oral il est plus naturel (et oplus fréquent) de dire "vous préférez".
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