"Max had to work last Sunday; that stinks!"

Translation: Max a dû travailler dimanche dernier, c'est nul !

[Don550357]

Max a dû travailler dimanche dernier; ça pue! why only c'est nul?

[GrahamNdP]

《 c'est dommage 》 is also accepted! :)

[Alison363791]

Surely 'had' is imperfect in this context and 'devait' would be a better translation than 'a du' ?

[fsouthern]

I believe "that stinks" is too dialectical/regional to be useful in this course.
A better choice would be either a literal translation or something more neutral.

[Martyn413385]

Agreed. It's very unlikely anyone would use that word.

[ken798791]

Max a dû travailler dimanche dernier; ça pue!

[Jane695536]

what is difference between dû and fallu? I wrote "Max a fallu travailler dimanche dernier, c'est nul" and it is not accepted.

[pom666]

your sentence : "Max a fallu travailler dimanche dernier," doesn't exist in French (sorry ;-)).but this exists : "Il a fallu que Max travaille etc...". With "falloir", you can only use "il". we say :" c'est un verbe impersonnel". (but the technical word is not very important !) You also can say ":"Il fallait que", "il faudra que", "il faudrait que".

[PaulKayser2]

what appalling "English Grammar" that stinks. Stinks is ça peu

[travturner]

I forgot DUO's prefered word for that stinks, so I went 'ça craint' lol. it wasn't accepted anyway.

[sdovalle]

Max avait que travailler le dimanche dernier; c'est mauvais = not accepted :(

[pom666]

yes... sorry, but, no sense in French.... and "c'est mauvais" is not used.