Any French Speakers On Here At The Moment

[Cmitchell]

What's the French for The car boot sale?

I know it's not "la vente de coffre de voiture", (that's a direct translation word for word) I know the actual is much shorter I saw it in the French/English dictionary last week I just don't have it at home with me! thanks in advance guys!!!! me

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french/car-boot-sale

Maybe

[murraymints]

vide-grenier

[emmie]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french/car-boot-sale

[emmie]

murray
so it would seem.

[ichkeria]

Yes vide-grenier or simply:
Le car boot sale :-)
It's a British thing ...

[Buenchico]

If you need to find one:
https://vide-greniers.org/

[Baldric]

Google says

Vente de bottes de voiture

but, who cares?

[Buenchico]

A useful tip with Google Translation, Baldric, is to try translating results back into the original language. 'Vente de bottes de voiture' comes out as 'sale of car boots' which, as far as I know, isn't exactly what happens at a car boot sale ;-)

[murraymints]

down south there used to be Granny flat sales ....anyone want a flat granny ? lol

[Prudie]

And a soupcon of incorrect French might translate that into wind from car bottoms :-)

[DTCwordfan]

le car boot....if you are being normal French.

It's the equivalent of a Boeing 747 plane over there, the locals using 'un sept-cent-quarante-sept,' the Académie Française ruling that it should be 'un gros porteur d'avion.' The latter doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? - and the French academics hate it.

[Peter Pedant]

// A useful tip with Google Translation, Baldric, is to try translating results back into the original language//

is called double translation - the Lady Elizabeth used to do it - put up to it by her tutor Ascham - and so she spoke Italian to the new ambassador as fluently as she had 50 y before
[ actually she had kicked the last one out 50 y before ]
yup 1598 and it waaaas - Queen Elizabeth I

also encouraged in schoolkids and dictionaries
well it was when I was at school ....

someone started in the Times in the 1920s and turned up to find a subed putting part of the new testament in Greek straight into Mandarin - for a bet without putting it into English first
.
how times have changed ....

[woofgang]

not strictly a car boot, but the other word used for a bric a brac sale is “brocante"

[DTCwordfan]

brocante is very different.

a jumble sale - une vente de charité

[Baldric]

Thank you for the 'helpful hints' I received, but did anyone notice the last line of my post?

I guess not!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes - you don't care , I saw it.

[Baldric]

Well spotted Mamya!

[Mamyalynne]

I thought it good of you to tell us.

[Baldric]

Always try to please Mamya!

[Berniecuddles2]

sacre bleu!