"The entire family will sleep at the hotel."

Translation: Toute la famille dormira à l'hôtel.

[SingeGainsbourg]

Why not «Toute la famille dormira dans l'hôtel» ?

[Craig904101]

"dans l'hôtel" is "in the hotel", not "at the hotel".

[Shahar1973]

And what is the difference between at the hotel and in the hotel?

[Rich889905]

I tried, "Toute la famille dormiront a l'hotel," which I guess isn't plural....

Does French ever treat singular collective nouns AS plural??

[DanielPers200180]

family is singular in both English and French or toutes les familles dormiront...

[JimFlint2]

Rich 889905: I tried it too. Still doesn't work....LOL

[Carol621412]

Why is 'la famille entière dormeront à l'hôtel' wrong?

[Peter349z]

Are collective nouns always counted as single?

[MeP6xx]

La famille entiere is a single entity so dormira no dormiront would be logical

[rockleeover10k_h]

La famille complet?