"Si vous avez une bonne opportunité, dites-le-moi !"
Translation:If you have a good opportunity, tell me!
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You're right "opportunité" is feminine and I guess "dites-la-moi" could work.
But "dites-le-moi" can be used as a colloquial expression, "le" being invariable.
- Si tu connais des bons films, dis-les-moi
- Si tu connais des bons films, dis-le-moi
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I put dis-le-moi and was marked wrong.
Assumed "dites" is the imperative, but I see you are using "dis" in your examples.
Now I am confused.
The "le" isn't referring to "opportunité" but to whatever the speaker is asking to be told -" If you have a good opportunity tell (it to) me".
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But the opportunity is what the speaker is asking to be told about, otherwise it should be "the opportunity to do so".
Do both "tell me" and "tell it to me" both translate to "dites-le-moi" ?
My shoulders slump, the air goes out - tell me (right); tell me it (wrong)
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I don't think the French sentence means "tell me if you have an opportunity for me". "Opportunité" is a false friend and this is a mistranslation.
Interesting. However, I think the academy is referring to definition 1 where "l'occasion" should be used.
- (= chance) occasion f an opportunity to do sth une occasion de faire qch an opportunity to meet all kinds of people une occasion de rencontrer toutes sortes de gens to take the opportunity of doing sth profiter de l’occasion pour faire qch to have the opportunity to do sth avoir l’occasion de faire qch I’ve never had the opportunity to go to France. Je n’ai jamais eu l’occasion d’aller en France. at the first opportunity (= as soon as possible) à la première occasion
- (in life, career) opportunité f more opportunities for women plus d’opportunités pour les femmes lack of opportunity le manque d’opportunités
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But Duo is using definition 1.
If it was definition 2, it would have to be "dites-la-moi".
That's what I was taught as well. In our classes, we were taught to use "occasion". I think "occasion" would be rejected here, but I haven't tried it.
Marked wrong, but why? Because I used "tu" or because I left out the trait d'union entre "le" et "moi"? I wrote "Si tu as une bonne opportunité, dis-le moi !"
Marking it wrong for a missing trait d'union seems a bit exaggerated, considering typos are often accepted, so maybe the "tu / dis" isn't accepted here (but it should be).