"Je voudrais une machine qui fait la vaisselle !"
Translation:I would like a machine that does the dishes!
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There's a word for that, though. Duo decided (for only god knows what reason) to go out of its way to say "a machine that does the dishes"
- 1954
It's an example of how to ask for something when you don't know the French word. It seems like a reasonable thing to teach.
I do the dishes and I come from Canada and I've doing them for a long time. Do, wash or clean the dishes.
Yes normal in UK. Unless you've got a dishwasher! In France they say faire la vaisselle. Don't know any others.
All the time (northeast USA). But "machine that does the dishes" = "dishwasher."
- 1373
Shouldn't "je voudrais une machine" be translated as "I would like to have a machine" and wouldn't the French equivalent of "I would like a machine" rather be "J'aimerais une machine"?
- 1657
In English-speaking countries a dishwasher is "a machine that does the dishes". A store salesman would look singularly surprised if a customer were to advise that he wants to buy "a machine that does the dishes" The likely reply would be, "Do you wish to buy a dishwasher, sir?"
- 1381
I know its semantics but we all use different phrases to mean the same thing. I am frustrated to have to use the literal translation not what is naturally said within my culture/social background.
