"La chaussure est rouge."
Translation:The shoe is red.
January 7, 2013
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Agreed, it doesn't sound like a single word. The Google translate speech synthesizer does a much better job with this phrase: http://translate.google.com/#fr/en/La%20chaussure%20est%20rouge.
To me, I think of a dog picking up a red shoe. He can pick up just one. On the other hand, he cannot pick up one leg of a pair of pants. (unless a very BAD sewing job). It cannot be broken apart, again, unless very poorly sewn. The shoes can be a pair of shoes, or two left shoes or two right shoes or a bag of miss-matched shoes. Right?
marciewall
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I was always taught that souliers means shoes, and chaussures is specifically runners. I even tried the American word sneaker, and it still wasn't accepted. Were ALL my French teachers wrong?