"She's studying law with the goal of becoming a judge."

Translation: Elle étudie le droit dans le but de devenir juge.

[LSadun]

DANS le but?! Is this another idiom? I could see pour, avec or a, but dans took me completely by surprise.

[tachyonashley123]

"Dans le but de" is a fixed phrase in French.

Prepositions don't always map neatly between languages, unfortunately.

[shunting65]

I learned "au but" in my classroom french (rejected, reported)

[Radu446877]

Dans used here totally confused me

[Rosie510738]

We can only learn this fixed French phrase 'dans le but de' by making a mistake, since this is nothing like the English! This is a bit of a disheartening way to learn!

[Martyn413385]

Agree, I hadn't come across it either and without a Tips section to help this is frustrating - a right pain dans le but!

[STRADS1551]

Would it correct to say "elle fait des études de droit..."? I haven't tried using this.

[SwervinMervin98]

Why not "la loi"? "Le droit" is "the right", no? (As in, I have the "right" to speak.)

[SuhailBanister]

Nope. "Le droit" is what the study of law is called, as opposed to individual laws. The same goes in Spanish, where derecho is the word for what law students do. Even in English, there is the special word jurisprudence that would apply, even though there is considerable overlap with the use of "law" to describe the subject in school.

[CSA_GW]

merci pour cette connaissance !

[Harvey686037]

'... avec le but..' also accepted

[Jennie269348]

These are the things that really bug me. How hard would it be to provide a tip for something so idiomatic?

[champguy]

This particular group of lessons I find totally soul destroying

[Sylvia839995]

Why isn't "loi " accepted? It is offered in the prompts.

[LSadun]

You can't rely on the prompts, which are just translations of a particular word without any context. Just because a law is a loi doesn't mean that the subject "Law" translates as "loi".

[origina]

...pour devenir...