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What if you were being asked in airport security if you had any liquid? Would that be any different from "As-tu du liquide"?
Also "liquide". We also use it this way in English (sort of). Cash is referred to as "liquid assets" in financial terms.
Yes, " as-tu du liquide, as-tu des liquidités" (bank langage in france) opposite of buildings, flats and houses, actions in Stock exhange.
Liquide does mean liquid, so it should NOT be marked as incorrect, even if it would be a strange thing to say.
In france if you ask "as tu du liquide" without other précision it is necessary some cash.
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Not in the context of THIS lesson, which is on the ECONOMY. Context, context, context, context.
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Yeah, Elizabeth, except the lesson here is about a vocab word that means cash. So use cash if you prefer to learn something new, rather than staying behind with the old meaning.
Probably as many as in English. I think the most common are espèces, (argent) liquide and the slang terms thune, fric, oseille, blé and flouze.
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in UK, talking about coins as opposed to bank notes, we would say "Have you any change?"
Could you not say 'do you have liquidity? ' ? This would be a phrase used in economics.
I was in French Immersion from Kindergarten until the end of Grade 10 and NEVER did we learn this term. I'm just lucky I got it right.
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We learned how to say éspèces a long time ago. Now we're supposed to use a new word. You know you're really learning a language when you start learning synonyms!
Why "du liquide" instead of "de liquide"? I would think "du liquide" would translate to "some of the cash" (specific cash).
Wordreference.com defines liquide as cash and offers it in the form of "acheter qch en liquide" meaning to pay for in cash.
"Do you have some/any liquidity?" should be accepted, since that word exists in English: liquidity.
I am only one here keeps trying to answer this as "Do you have cash?"? I think this is equally correct in the context of American English, but maybe it's just the folks I hang out with. Could we answer this "Do you have (read: any/some) cash?"?
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As someone who grew up with a mother who is a personal tax-account this is the first thing I thought of too to express this in English. I've never heard it expressed as asking if a person or business is liquid, but rather solvent.
I would like to know if the French liquide can mean the same thing?
You must have heard of liquid assets. When a business is liquid, or sufficiently liquid, it means that it has enough liquid assets to cover its short-term debts. The Liquidity Ratio is a measure of its ability to do so.
With airline travel and security issues it is an oft asked question: "Any liquid, Sir?", "Any liquid, Ma'am?", "Do you have any liquid?" ad infinitum. In this context it means literal 'liquid'.
So, there is another question similar to this that does not have a discussion option, so I figured I'd ask it here:
Write “cash” in French
I wrote "le liquide" and it is not accepted (it only accepts "la monnaie"). Does "liquide" REALLY mean cash, or is it slang that is only accepted in certain phrases?
That's why when a company sells off its property it is called "liquidation" -- they are converting their buildings, equipment, etc into "liquid"
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To be liquid can mean to have funds so why was I marked incorrect for saying "are you liquid" ? Weird sentence but then there are many of those on DL!
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It's not weird when it's properly translated, as at the top of this page.
Liquide = cash. Très simple.
Just curious how did liquide became the word for cash? When i think of liquid i think of water.
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With all discussions of 4 years, there is NONE answering how to say " do you have any liquid".
May anyone knowing that help please?
