"Mes petits-enfants préfèrent les céréales au chocolat."

Translation: My grandchildren prefer chocolate cereals.

[yujia21]

Can't this have the meaning of my grandchildren prefer cereal over chocolate too?

[Sitesurf]

Statistically, it is less likely, but you are right, it is possible. Adding it. Thanks.

[CJ.Dennis]

It would sound different in speech though, wouldn't it, with the addition of a tiny pause:

• Mes petits-enfants préfèrent les cereals(-)au(-)chocolat - My grandchildren prefer chocolate cereal
• Mes petits-enfants préfèrent les cereals(,) au chocolat - My grandchildren prefer cereal to chocolate

[piguy3]

"chocolate cereal" shouldn't be a typo, should it?

[Beogg]

Cereal is plural in English. I read this sentence two ways; cereals (two brands of chocolate cereal) or prefer chocolate cereal. We say cereal.

[W-Ruggles-Wolfe]

This is similar to "Le dimanche matin" (singular) translating as "Sunday mornings" (mass).

S.b. cereal.

[oddym]

I put 'prefer to' which is standard English. It was corrected to 'prefer over' which may be American but is certainly to UK English

[CJ.Dennis]

"cereal" (the breakfast food) is almost always uncountable. "My grandchildren prefer [any variety of] chocolate cereal".

[LesterOlso]

My grandchildren prefer the cereals to the chocolate. Might translation be acceptable?