@stringere to Linguistics [email protected] • 2 years agoAs a native English speaker with some French, I've always wanted to open a food market and call it Fat Cherries.message-square2arrow-up118arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up118arrow-down1message-squareAs a native English speaker with some French, I've always wanted to open a food market and call it Fat Cherries.@stringere to Linguistics [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square2file-text
English - Groceries: The commodities sold by a grocer or in a grocery. Plural form of grocery. Multiple retailers of groceries. French - gros ceries: gros = fat (big) cerises = cherries
minus-squaremerde alorslinkfedilink6•2 years ago“gros” means more than just “fat” and it’s still the word at the root (or head) of the grosserie . Commerce en gros, wholesale. also, cerise is female. you would need to say grosse + the plural: grosses cerises 🤷
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoHe did mention he’s an English native, though, he’d likely butcher the pronunciation so it sounds like Fat Cherries 😃
“gros” means more than just “fat” and it’s still the word at the root (or head) of the grosserie . Commerce en gros, wholesale.
also, cerise is female. you would need to say grosse + the plural: grosses cerises 🤷
He did mention he’s an English native, though, he’d likely butcher the pronunciation so it sounds like Fat Cherries 😃