"C'est une mauvaise pièce."
Translation:It is a bad piece.
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What is meant by piece? Like cake? Music? The generic "piece" of something...? A mantle piece?
This is what I tried, and it was accepted, but what does it mean? Is the coin counterfeit?
The audio of pièce is strange. Sounds like two women saying it at the same time!
the many meanings of pièce, bad, good or otherwise: https://www.linguee.com/french-english/translation/pi%C3%A8ce.html
why the audiable s-ending of mauvaise here? shouldnt it be silent considering the p in the beginning of pièce?
That is how mauvaise is pronounced, it has nothing to do with it being before a vowel. Just like vichyssoise which is also completely pronounced.
The rule I was taught is that you pronounce every consonant that is followed by a vowel. The S is followed by a vowel in "mauvaise," so it is pronounced. If it was masculine, e.g., "mauvais," it wouldn't be pronounced, i.e., un mauvais livre, un mauvais repas.
I think fake translates better as "fausse" : "C'est une fausse pièce."
" Pièce " has lots of meanings. A bad theater play (pièce de théâtre) would make sense here. It could also be a bad mechanical part.
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais-anglais/pi%C3%A8ce/60388
Could "play" refer to a play in a card game? "It was a bad play. He lost the hand."?
I think 'mauvaise' could translate as poor here, especially as we don't know what 'piece' refers to, but it doesn't seem to be allowed.