"Don't come work if you have the flu."

Translation: Ne viens pas travailler si tu as la grippe.

[PKE26318]

"Don't come TO work...?

[effyleven]

True! We are penalised when we make mistakes like that in French !!!

[JessicaIro3]

If you said don't come TO work, it would be "ne viens pas au travail..."

[Martyn413385]

See what BrianBoru4 wrote about this 6 months ago. Perhaps think of the French having an implied "here" in it, ie, "Don't come (here) and work if ...." or "Don't come working (here) if...." However the English version offered by Duo is "bizarre".

[BrianBoru4]

True, a literal translation but it introduces a nuanced ambiguity in English which isn't in the French. (This English could be back-translated as 'au travail' which is slightly different -- noun v verb). I suggest it's better as 'Don't come AND work' which like the French treats 'work' as a verb.

[Martyn413385]

Thanks, that's a good way to express a literal translation and is faithful to the construction, but perhaps this is a situation where an idiomatic translation into English is more appropriate. It would be more usual to say "Don't come/go to work....". Alternatively in these days of lockdowns and home-working perhaps "Don't work if you have flu" would be sufficient!

[Carmen1122333]

Why is it 'la grippe' and not 'de la grippe'?

[geoffreymayer]

That would be "some flu".

[stu467620]

Don't come work is not an english sentence

[MarkCreed]

Dreadful English!

[Arturinho2]

don't come work ? WHAT THE F..........

[Hilbo6]

Dreadful translation

[DonCampbel7]

Ne viens pas au travail, si tu as la grippe. (Not accepted)

[hoseindaem]

Ne viens pas travailler si tu as la coid19