"You will not tell her; otherwise, she will tell the boss."

Translation: Tu ne le lui diras pas, sinon elle le dira au chef.

[Alex247537]

Translating to French, where did the it come from?

[Brian826478]

You will not tell it to her otherwise she will tell it to the boss. Is it absolutely necessary to have the it to's in the sentence?

[Seattle_Scott]

In the French sentence it is necessary.

[Brian826478]

I think you'll find it isn't. Check out other translation sites and you will see your opinion is misguided.

[--Roody--]

Could you please give us a link if you want us to look it up?

[JoBorn1]

That is not so in English. She will tell the boss is correct in English. Confusing.

[D22Xk6gg]

No need for the extra "le"

[wmdajt1]

Sometime duo wants raconter, somtimes dire for " to tell".

[MandyB11]

I think that raconter is closer to its near English meaning of "recount", and that implies telling a story about something which happened. Dire is more of a "now" thing, for want of a better description. I could be wrong, but it works for me as a strategy.

[rickmcgrath]

Why not patron instead of chef?

[MandyB11]

Either should be accepted. If not, flag it up.

[David917415]

"patron" was accepted for me. Jan. 16, 2022.

[RecklessRed]

Why is le in here? There's no mention of "it" in the English sentence

[ColinCanuck]

They are teaching us that sometimes the direct object can be implied in English, but not in French. You cannot use dire without an object. Caveat I'm not a native French speaker this is what I inferred from this lesson

[GayathriIy]

Very strange explanation

[Margarita601164]

You can definitely use a semicolon when you use a word such as otherwise (conjunctive adverb) followed by a comma to join 2 independent clauses. https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/punctuation/commas/commas_vs_semicolons.html

[Pip26604]

Tu ne le lui diras pas = you will not tell her of it, therefore "Tu ne lui diras pas" should be accepted ?

[charhoo]

Shouldn't "directeur" be accepted, too?