"Il réserve ce vin pour sa famille."

Translation: He keeps this wine for his family.

[Chantastic92]

Why does "ce" = "the" when it's translated as "he saves the wine" or "he keeps the wine", but when I translated the phrase as "he reserves the wine", I was told it should be "he reserves that wine"? Why does the meaning of "ce" change depending on the meaning of "reserve"?

[Sitesurf]

It is a bug, ce = this/that and le = the

[NessaNessaJoy]

difference in sound of "souvent"/"ce vin" ?

[Sitesurf]

Go to Google translation, select French/English, type "souvent, ce vin" in the French case, then click on the small loudspeaker. She says it well.

[Phosphorus347]

-ou- is always oo.

[iagox86]

"My children need wine!"

[Cee_Oh]

Why couldn't this sentence also mean, "He saves the wine for [an unnamed woman's] family," i.e. "He saves the wine for her family."?

[Sitesurf]

Theoretically it could, but we would tend to specify that it is not his family but hers: il réserve ce vin pour sa famille à elle.

[hanaelk]

Lol. Hope he doesn't have kids...

[ALLintolearning3]

Kids grow up and the wine gets better with age...