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] Date Posted:16:08:07 02/11/09 Wed In reply to:
dotB
's message, "Re: Need a little help" on 15:34:03 02/11/09 Wed
>>I need a little help. Does anyone know enough French
>>to be able to translate this line to French for me?
>>
>>"Would you like another cup of coffee?"
>>
>>Thanks, all.
>>
>>-- Wes
>
>If you were in a coffee shop or café, I'd expect
>something like: "Excusez, voulez-vous une autre
>tasse?"
>Perhaps if the server was slightly more formal it
>would be: "Excusez-moi, voulez-vous une autre tasse de
>café?"
>
>(But then my French is really rusty.)
>
It's a wife to her husband. I put this query up elsewhere and got:
Date Posted:17:03:39 02/11/09 Wed
>It's a wife to her husband. I put this query up
>elsewhere and got:
>
>"Voudriez vous plus de café?"
>
>That sound about right?
>
>-- Wes
Yeah, that literally translates as "Would you like more coffee?"
It's very informal - but then if they were married, it would be.
Date Posted:17:17:08 02/11/09 Wed
>>>It's a wife to her husband. I put this query up
>>>elsewhere and got:
>>>
>>>"Voudriez vous plus de café?"
>>>
>
>>
>>It's very informal - but then if they were married, it
>>would be.
>
>Unless they are barely civil to each other, they would
>use the familiar singular pronouns - Tu instead of
>Vous.
>
>"Veux tu plus de café?"
Perhaps, but were they married for long, where were they raised, how old are they, etc. Let's just say that I know an older French couple who still talk quite formally whenever they're in company that they don't know well.
Date Posted:19:26:18 02/11/09 Wed
husband and wife would could be something along the lines of "Est çe que tu veux encore de cafe, cherie?" or "cher" if wife to husband. Also possible "Veux-tu de cafe?"An earlier writer is correct re the more formal "vous" if they are beyond a certain age, translated 70+. Most likely would be "encore de cafe, (possibly with name or cher or cherie per above.) ?" which is the equivalent of "more coffee, dear, hon, jane, john"
