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What is meant by piece? Like cake? Music? The generic "piece" of something...? A mantle piece?
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This is what I tried, and it was accepted, but what does it mean? Is the coin counterfeit?
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The audio of pièce is strange. Sounds like two women saying it at the same time!
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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?
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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.
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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."?
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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.
