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The real problem here is the word to word translation as the french place meaning place in English. It actually means a seat or a town square. Une endroit is the generic English "place"
«Endroit» is the generic for place = location, but «place» is the generic place = position/spot/space, and this sentence could easily be about that.
I interpreted the French to mean something like, "Then we need to look for a seat/table/spot on the beach, etc."
I understood this in the context of "when we go to the movies, first we buy popcorn, then we look for a place"
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In general, the adverbs puis and ensuite are synonymous. However, puis is typically used as a conjunction and cannot be placed at the end of a sentence whereas ensuite can be placed anywhere in a sentence
example
qu'est-ce qu'il a fait ensuite? - what did he do then?
This sentence cannot be translated as: qu'est-ce qu'il a fait puis.
Chercher - I thought the word 'seek' would fit here as well. The limitations on this test have frustrated me a bit.
English has to have "search FOR," but "to search for a place" (to sit, to eat, to park, etc.) makes perfect sense.
- 1999
I would like to know how to say "Then we search a place" in French though. To search a place means to look for something in a place (e.g. from Wiktionary: "I searched the garden for the keys and found them in the vegetable patch.").
- 1005
Is "Then we look for a parking place." wrong? I thought that la place could be used for that purpose.
Notice that the French verb is in the present tense (on cherche), so we'd have to say "we look for a place" (looked for puts it into the past tense).
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Finding and searching don't mean the same thing? I saidy finding instead of searching for "cherche" and was marked incorrect.
- 1999
Finding and searching don't mean the same thing. You can find someone you haven't searched for, or search for something and not find it.
I wrote 'Afterwards you search for a place' but it wasn't accepted. 'On' can mean one/we/you, right?
Duolingo accepts "we" as a translation for "on" here, but in previous examples where the context fit it, it was rejected in favour of "one".
These sentences lack context (unavoidable) but there are often a number of possible interpretations. Here I translated "place" as parking spot" which in many contexts is correct. Here I can see that Duolingo hasn't included it in their list of answers but many times it is frustrating and the sentences seem incredibly stilted without context
- 357
My answer was " Afterwards we are looking for a parking place". Why is this wrong?
