- Forum >
- Topic: French >
- "Elle a une boutique de vêtem…
45 Comments
"A boutique is a small shopping outlet, especially one that specializes in elite and fashionable items such as clothing and jewelry." - It is implied that a boutique sells clothes (but boutiques never sell electronics or other goods), so it's like calling it a "clothing clothes" store. I think "She has a boutique" should be accepted in this case.
395
To a Frenchman this sounds like 'a shop of the clothes'. He would understand you but it's just not how the French would say it.
221
"garment shop" is very stilted English. We might more readily say clothes shop (or store), dress shop, outfitters or even boutique, but absolutely never "clothing boutique" as in English usage boutique ALWAYS means a clothes shop, though not for the kind of clothes this unfashionable middle aged male wears!
In "boutique banking", "boutique" is used as an adjective, which it definitely can be. But "a boutique", a noun, as in this case, is necessarily an upmarket clothes shop in British English (though in American English it appears it's just an upmarket [anything] shop). Therefore, this should be an accepted translation because British/Commonwealth and American versions are both accepted in the course.