"Bonne journée."
Translation:Have a good day.
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Bonne is Good Journée is Day So how is it translated to have a good day where is "have" and "a"?
not all languages including french use the same rules and words. this is a case where it means have a good day because it is feminine, note the extra es and ns at the end. as far as ive seen when you say hello you use the male terms and when you want to say goodbye use the female terms.
It's a different language. And different words can make new meaning if they are put together. And French isn't like English too.
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Also words acquire meaning by how they are used by people over time. So even though it may not be a literal translation, we need to learn how the French USE it.
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Bonjour John Nabil,
Literally, if you really want to translate the word "Have", the phrase "Have a good day!" means "Aie une bonne journée !" or "Ayez une bonne journée !"
"Aie" is the verb "avoir" (to have) conjugated in the second person singular (tu = you) of the present imperative and "Ayez" is in the second person plural (vous = you) of the present imperative.
But I've never heard a Frenchman say either of those two sentences.
We rather say "Passe une bonne journée !" or "Passez une bonne journée !" (Have a nice day!), or just "Bonne journée !" (Have a good day!).
i just had text chat with a french person, and they ended with "passe une bonne journee"
so it literally means "pass a good day" in demand form?
Yes - except this is the "pass" in "passing time", not the one in "pass the salt".
Similar to spanish, when we say "que pase un buen dia" meaning you have a good day
Because French as it's own languages has different rules and based on the context of the words "bonne" and "journée" you can assume it is "Have a nice day" which is a better way of saying "Good day".
It literally means "Good day" and it is translated as "HAVE A good day" because it is said when one leaves or says bye to someone else (by the morning usually). Jour is a specific day and Journée is more a general term to refer to the events ocurring in the day and what the person will encounter. That's more how i see it, i take french in University and thats how i understand it
You can write "Passez une bonne journée." which is the most logic translation you can have.
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Often the options you can pick don't fit the situation at all so the Report button is often pretty useless in my experience. For example, once the English translation was not really English at all but the only choice available was that the French was inaccurate. You really need a REAL report button where we can report all problems, not just the 2-4 that you give as choices.
In English, "good day" is acceptable as an ABREVIATION of "HAVE A good day," so that should be accepted as an answer! After all, it asks to "Write this in English!"
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'Good day' comes across as both a greeting and a parting comment, so yes, you have a point IMO.
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Exactly this. "Good day" is a perfectly valid translation and a bad reason to deduct health. And it is a farewell.
I've noticed that "Bonjour" is habitually used in the begining of the conversation, while "Bonne journée" often appears at the end.
Same thing as Bonsoir vs bonne soiree. It's similar to good evening vs. have a good evening. You wouldn't greet somebody with "have a good evening", but you would say that as a parting phrase.
"Bonjour" is so much used it has become a bit meaningless, like "salut" (hi, hello). So if you mean to wish someone a good day, you will say "bonne journée".
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From what I know a full 24 hour day is translated using "jour" whereas "journée" is more time specific covering sun rise to sun down.
Seriously guys, whats the difference between é & è ???? I can not see even subtle difference in pronunciation!! Am i the only one??
What is the difference between "jour" and "journée" if both them mean day?
Every sentence is repeated a number of times, so you can indeed learn their spelling.
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if you mean the mark above the "e", its not a hyphen, it's called an "accent". There are several different accents in French that change the sound of the letter. Perhaps someone who knows how to access font with accents can tell you where to find them. Otherwise I have only used them when the options show up in little boxes on the screen.
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I learnt it as the accent that starts to the right and angles down towards the left, sounds like long a [ay] but when I listen now it sounds half way between long a and short e. I think my hearing has changed over time to be more attuned to French sounds, whereas before I could only hear English sounds. I learnt the other angled accent [from top left towards back right] as English short e, but again I think its different than how I was taught because it sounds different to me here but not like any English sound, so its hard to catch. If you really want to know and learn the sounds, I'd suggest looking up French vowel sounds on google.
Remember that French does not have long or short vowel sounds, so the comparison with English does not make much sense, nor with a diphthong like "ay". Both "é" and "è" are short sounds, the former "in a smile" (your mouth a bit more opened than for a short "i") and the latter "open-mouthed" (as in "let" or "best").
"Bonne" is in the feminine and ends with an -N sound. https://forvo.com/search/Bonne/
"Bon" is in the masculine an ends with the nasal sound "on". https://forvo.com/search/Bon/
If you forget what Bonne journée is write it down on a piece of paper or something like that
Why were we not able to select what it actually says rather than what it means?
because that was its intent, literal translations usually suck; thats partially why google translate is so bad, it cant detect context very well so it ends up just giving literal translations which are usually horrifically bad.
TLDR; because it doesnt make sense and youre not going to be doing literal translations often because of clarity.
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Probably because the computer is looking for "good" and is programmed to accept that as equivalent to "bonne".
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Well that is a different word so that's why its wrong. god is not good, even though they are related; they are not the same word.
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What do you need help with? If it is about this particular exercise try to explain what you are confused about.
The speaking option never works for me. I tap the microphone and it doesn't do anything.
This is not the forum to get technical help from. Please try this forum: https://forum.duolingo.com/topic/647
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Au revoir = literally " to see again" and so is used for "Good bye".
à bientôt = maybe something like, I'm not sure..."to well early" and so is used for "See you soon".
Bonne Journée = literally (in the feminine) good day, but is only used when talking about the whole day, and is used for "Have a good day". I'm still learning but this is what I've picked up. If anyone knows more, please contribute.
"Tu" is the subject pronoun: "Tu manges" = You eat/are eating.
"Te" is the object pronoun: "Je peux te voir" = I can see you. (direct object); "Je te parle" = I am speaking to you. (indirect object)
"Toi" is the stress pronoun: "Et toi ? Quel est ton nom ?" = And you? What's your name?
French is a gendered language, like Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, German, Russian...
"Une journée" is a feminine noun, so its adjective must be in the feminine form: "bonne".
