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Translation:Bonsoir, comment ça va ?
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Bonne nuit is Good night
Bonne soirée is Have a good evening
Bonsoir is Good evening
I remembered that Duolingo taught me Good evening was bonne soirée. When i answered, it marked it was wrong :(
Bonne soiree means Have a good evening, and is used when parting ways with someone, while Bonsoir is Good evening and used as a greeting :)
Yeah this has happened to me quite a few times! Dont know how to notify them
Same here tho...
But turned out that bonne soirée means "have a good day**,
And Bonsoir means "good evening".
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"Bonne soiree" is actually "have a good evening" and "Bonne journee" is "have a good day"
Same here...why is it not accepted! Bonne soiree was good evening on the first question i was asked and it was correct!
You have to say "Bonsoir, comment ca va ?" or else the translation would be "Good evening, I am fine."
I did "ca va" and it marked me as correct, but thank you for this explanation.
What is the difference between comment ça va and just ça va? What is the litteral definition?
Comment ça va has different meanings as in "how are you" while ça va on it's own can literally just mean "it's okay"
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So many people not reading the comments before posting their own questions... please be sure that you do.
Just to make sure I understood this: bonne soirée only works when there is a departure, whilst bonsoir works when there is an encounter without a departure?
I tried bonne soirée and got it wrong. I seem to remember it being more of a "have fun this evening" than a casual evening greeting. Can anyone confirm?
"Bonne soirée" is good evening and "Bonsoir" is good evening ? what is the difference
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Saying "Bonne soirée" followed by "comment ça va" would be like this: You are wrapping up a conversation with someone, you've just finished speaking to, you look away and start to walk down the street (again, having just said, "Have a good evening!"). Then, just as you look away and start walking down the street you say, (comment ça va) "How are you doing?" As if to start up the conversation again - Picture that - Doesn't really make sense to do that! Does it?
Bonne nuit is Good night
Bonne soirée is Have a good evening
Bonsoir is Good evening
Ca va is the familiar tense correct? To a strange I thought it was proper to use Comment allez-vous? the non familiar. Also I thought in asking a question, one inverted the pronoun and verb as I used above. Can anyone comment on these permutations of the language?
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Use "Bonsoir" as a greeting or friendly salutation. Use "Bonne soirée" as a departing wish.
Bonsoir is good evening while bonne soiree can be seen as, have a good evening
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If you have long press menus on your phone, generally you can hold (long press) down on the letter "c" and a menu will appear showing "ç" as an available option for selection.
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Bonjour = Good morning / Hello (during the day)
Bonsoir = Good evening (usually after 5pm-ish)
I am using a laptop for Duolingo so even though i get it correct it still says 'remember to yse accents' i know how to us the accents but i dont know how to put it on since im on laptop.
how are you doing sometimes we use et toi? and sometimes ca va which one to use when
I agree with the usage for the familiar tense, but when I took Conversational French 40 YEARS AGO, the expression was, comment allez-vous, the formal tense.
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Please explain the difference between when you respond to 'Good evening' as: Bonsoir or Bonne soiree (with the accent on the first e). I always thought that the second option was to say 'have a good evening'. Thanks so much.
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Yes, that was my understanding but now I am confused. Losing a point isn't that important and am hoping it will clarify itself later. Thanks for your follow-up.
The question before did not accept bonne soir for good evening. This question says it should be bonjour for good evening. Who is editing Duolingo and correcting some of the glitches.?
i chose bonne soiree and it showed it as a mistake when it is part of the options i had. Why?
"bonne soiree" means "have a good evening" while "bonsoir" means "good evening"
Here a tip : Ça va can be used both to ask how someone is doing and to answer the question
Bonsoir means good evening, while Bonne soirée means Have a good evenine
It in answer hint, Good mean Bonne, Evening means Soiree. so my answer Bonne Soiree shd be correct
I asked the same question about 2 years ago in this thread. It was taught .... 55 years ago as comment allez-vous. What follows was my question: Ca va is the familiar tense correct? To a stranger I thought it was proper to use Comment allez-vous? the non familiar. Also I thought in asking a question, one inverted the pronoun and verb as I used above. Can anyone comment on these permutations of the language?
I am putting the same answer as DL and it keeps correcting me ,this has been going on for too long
Je pensais que "comment ça va" pouvait être traduit par "how are you".
What do I have to do, when my answers are covered with my mobile keyboard?
