"I can't take visiting historic sites anymore."
Translation:Je n'en peux plus de visiter des sites historiques.
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The use of "en" here is a bit perplexing because "des sites historiques" is also explicit. What should I learn here?
The idiomatic phrase « X n'en pouvoir plus » means "X can't stand/take it anymore"! :)
Most prepositions belong to the word preceding them, so here, it isn't « visiter de » but rather « plus de » ! :)
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I thought I mastered the les vs. des issue but apparently I didn't. Why is les sites not possible here, as it is a general statement about historic sites? And would that be different in the following sentence:
Je ne peux plus visiter les sites historiques.
It follows the idiomatic phrase I mentioned above to introduce what you can't stand/take! :)
Merci. So, if I understand correctly the idiomatic phrase is: "(subject) n'en pouvoir plus de..." For example: "Je n'en peux plus de manger ce plat degoutant."; "Vous n'en pouvez plus de voir vos beax-parents."; "Il n'en peut plus d'etudier cette matiere difficile.", etc.
This is another phrase that translates French into a series of words in English which I would never use in the order required.
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je ne peux plus supporter rendre visite aux sites historiques, I'm guessing the rendre visite is wrong for a historic site....
Rendre visite is for people only i think.
Visiter is for places.
Why not 'je ne peux plus visiter les sites historiques'? marked as wrong.
That would mean "I cannot visit..." rather than "I can't take/stand [it]..."! :)