"Je veux une flûte, fais-m'en une avec ce bâton."
Translation:I want a flute; make me one with this stick.
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Once again, the English makes no sense. You can make a flute (or more likely a recorder) from a stick if you're good at woodworking, but you can't make one with a stick, unless you're using the stick to punch holes in a tube.
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The "stick" is actually a magic wand! Thus, the illogicality of the sentence magically vanishes! You're welcome.
Since it makes no sense (could with a recorder, but flute in english specifies not that), my mind chose by default to break it into two unrelated statements, reading the second one as though a monk was wanting to become "one" with the stick and I did a doubletake.
From is, I should think, the superior option, but I'd heard "with" plenty.
What is the purpose of "en" in this sentence? I was under the impression it was used with "some," not a specific amount (in this case, one).
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You can think of it as "of them" in this sentence. The "une" is the "one", of course. A translation that's not any better, but is closer to word-for-word, would be "make me one of them".
So the person has a magic wand but it's too lazy to use it and wants someone else to do the transformation for them. The sentences are rather bazaar.
"I want a flute. Make me one with this stick." "I want a cake. Make me one with this flour and sugar." The use of the word "this" doesn't bother me, but the run-on sentences do.
Comma splices are bad form in English, but I'm told they're accepted and very common in French.
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Maybe: I want a flute; make me one out of this stick. Fais-m'en une de ce bâton Surely you wouldn,t use a stick as a tool.
this must take the prize for the most incoherent sentence encountered thus far...and there have been MANY candidates!
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I figured baton should be a pole (as in Baton Rouge) - a better shape to make a flute out of.
