"Ils se réunissent après leurs heures de travail."

Translation: They assemble after their work hours.

[Roland655103]

Is "work hours" American English? They meet up after work sounds more natural.

[LenReed]

American? Not like this. "I have to go; I can't talk during work hours." But this sentence should be "after work" in the U.S., too.

[doublelingot]

'They meet after hours' is a colloquial expression.

[EdOWUd]

Yes I was incorrect by using this more natural after work.

[Spacemanspack]

Englsih speakers wouldn't say 'They are meeting up after their work hours'. Instead, they would simply say 'They are meeting up after work.

[DavidSales17]

This is incorrect. It should read 'after work'.

[oNcPAsW2]

Also, the "up" is redundant, ungrammatical and, frankly, ugly.

[PamelaCrop1]

"After their work hours " sounds ridiculous . It should be "after work".

[david527812]

Agreed: they meet after work is the correct way to say it in english. After hours is implied - not said

[Kateh1000]

The translation isn't English. We say, 'after work.'

[Kateh1000]

The translation is not English; after work is much better.

[Jenny57970]

what a clumsy translation into English

[Daniel589120]

They get together after working hours.<--accepted.

[Graymouse1]

In America, there is a difference between "meeting" and "meeting up." The first is something employees might do to discuss a work problem. The second is something they might do for drinks and socializing. Is there a difference in French? And we'd probably just say "after work," while "after hours" means something else entirely, like after the bars close.

[Allan111495]

Agree, English usage is "after work".

[Noelmichae2]

In UK we don't say this. We say they are meeting up after work.

[Martyn413385]

Is this a good French statement or just as twisted as the English version?

[SheilaSimp7]

'They get together after work' was rejected

[Gord543537]

Of course, because that is how the vast majority of people would express it. Duo prefers enigmatic vocabulary and syntax.

[aussie3931]

'They get together after hours' is how I would say this. It is accepted.

[EdOWUd]

This could be when the bar closes or is it meeting up after hours being apart?

[LenReed]

Not really. In this case, it doesn't sound right to use "after hours" to mean "after several hours." After several hours, after a few hours, a few hours later, in a few hours. There are a lot of ways to express this, but "after hours" is not one of them.

Note: all of those would back translate into something like dans des heures or dans quelques heurs, since they have nothing to do with work hours.

[Keith452044]

If everyone reports it, then hopefully Duo will correct the error and change it to "after work".

[MScottNataleonFB]

il me semble bien que la phrase "they meet up after work hours" pourrait marcher, cela aussi.

[Norman491209]

Meet up rather than assemble in UK English

[LenReed]

In the U.S., too. For some reason they decided to rework that part of the problematic English sentence and made it worse!

[JeanP15]

'They assemble after their work time' was dinged for me, but would be acceptable UK Eng. Reporting.

[JenniferFa168453]

This translation is very strange. They meet (up) after work.

[Alan664371]

Transformers?

[Jamaleen]

Aside from the many better ways of saying "after their work hours" - is anyone happy with this "assembled" :) That sounds more like the committee to plan the revolution than a jolly after-work drink.

[ChefeBispo]

We are discussing a future event, so "they will meet up..." should be accepted.