"À travers la pomme"

Translation: Through the apple

[gabewithafender]

J'ai la vision x-ray. Je peux voir à travers la pomme!

[blorbloz]

"À travers l'univers" was taken, so we named our album "À travers la pomme"

[hrtrahan]

What does this even mean?

[drockalgzemoser]

The worm digs à travers la pomme.

[deactivated user]

Gotta love speaking franglais.

[sarmfalaki]

Oui, you faut.

[shriramk]

Remember the worm who lives in an apple from a few lessons ago?

[Feeniqs]

No, it was a boy!

[mbdiem]

William Tell.

[saschambaer]

cough His name was Willhelm cough

But thanks for acknowledging his existence :P

[XZMd]

Guillaume Tell as well -:)

[puffed]

We are in the apple house.

[Lechuza-chouette]

thanks everyone for some context!

[pythonenfrancais]

Other than context, would there be a way to distinguish between "through the apple" and "throughout the apple"? I'm thinking of sentences like "the worm ate through the apple" versus "the poison spread throughout the apple."

[percyflage]

"le poison propage dans toute la pomme." Could be "...spread throughout.." I think

[Gempaw]

Any ideas on why it is travers and not traverse? When Apple is a feminine noun ..

[brockplusplus]

Because "travers" is a noun, not an adjective, and "à travers" is a preposition. If it were an adjective, then we'd see the gender inflection.

[Gempaw]

hmm, well I wouldn't have thought 'travers' was a noun seeing as 'à travers' means through. I just looked it up though and some of its meanings are 'oddity' or 'wrong'. strange.

[Gempaw]

thank you, btw.

[AndreaChapman]

A secondary definition of "pomme" was presented as "heart." It makes more sense for the phrase to mean "Through the heart." However, that transaltion is incorrect. Perhaps it will come up later as an idiom.

[Zelah_Meyer]

I typed 'A travers la pomme' and Duo said it was incorrect and should be 'À travers la pomme' - It usually lets you skip the accents, but in this case it didn't. I've reported it because of the lack of consistency - but if it happens to anyone else, you might want to do the same thing in case there's a minimum number of reports required. (If anyone knows how Duo works and that's not the case, then, please chip in!)

[northernguy]

Zelah_Meyer

It might well be that since à and a are completely different words they don't treat it the same as other instances of accent marks where their presence reflects nothing more than traditional ornamentation.

[brockplusplus]

You aren't required to mark accents on capital letters in French (at least, it's very common not to)

[northernguy]

That was definitely the case before word processors and such. I think it's more common to expect it now. Especially in circumstances like Duo where grammar is being evaluated.

[EmpressRonnie]

To grandma's house?

[Mr.Raz]

Through the wire

[chaudhryjunaid]

why is it "a travers" and not only "travers"?

[northernguy]

travers = noun = breadth

à travers = preposition = through, across.

[chaudhryjunaid]

thanks northernguy!

[northernguy]

I swam the breadth of the pool

I swam across the pool.

[JoeyMnemonic]

Merci

[awazi]

If you shoot in the middle of the apple you will see through it funny sadistitic usage

[Clenobimmerova]

Hold your tongue and say this sentence.

[KhariHambl]

Sorry but in Spanish one would say, "a traves de"...would one ever say, "à travers de" or "du" or even "au"...I'm just looking for a connection.

[Erin335]

Why is there an 'a' with accent aigu there? Is it necessary? Thanks.

[milankovacs]

Áu or á travers...last time Duo did not accept my "Á travers" translation.