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ember estuaryBOT Apr 1, 2024, 6:01 PM

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unique blaze Apr 1, 2024, 6:01 PM

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No, it's a regular word in that regard.

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Same with mouton and other words like that.

vocal bough Apr 1, 2024, 6:20 PM

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but uh

ember estuaryBOT Apr 1, 2024, 6:21 PM

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plural of poisson

lofty perch Apr 1, 2024, 6:27 PM

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vocal bough but uh

this is just google being dumb. It's "deux poissons".

flat spindle Apr 1, 2024, 7:27 PM

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https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/poisson

Wiktionnaire

poisson

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Wiktionary is good for checking plurals/gendered forms

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Google translate is consistently unreliable, especially for single words

vocal bough Apr 1, 2024, 8:01 PM

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ahhh ok thanks hahaha XD

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ok but now I have another question:

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so this answer is correctly apparently, but since fish is a countable noun, shouldn't it also be plural here?

lofty perch Apr 1, 2024, 8:08 PM

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"fish" can be both countable and uncountable. When it's countable, it refers to the animal.
When it's uncountable, it refers to the meat.

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"Il y a des poissons dans cet aquarium" --> countable
"Il y a du poisson dans cette quiche" --> uncountable

flat spindle Apr 1, 2024, 8:28 PM

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There are fish (countable) vs. there is fish (meat, uncountable)

vocal bough Apr 2, 2024, 3:47 AM

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bruh XD

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ok thanks hahaha

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now I'm questioning what other weird holes I have in my english because even though it's my native language I don't speak it at home XD

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So technically you could also say "Do you buy fish (countable) at the supermarket?" right? Like in the case of "wholesale" fish

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If so, does that mean "Tu achètes des poissons au supermarché ?" is also correct?

lofty perch Apr 2, 2024, 5:19 AM

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“Tu achètes des poissons?” means “do you buy (a bunch of) fish?”
As in multiple fishes 🐠 🐠

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That is indeed something you can say

flat spindle Apr 2, 2024, 7:47 AM

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It sounds like you're buying live fish but yeah

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If you're talking about a whole fish used for meat you usually still are referring to the meat

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You can compare with chicken vs chickens for an easier time seeing the difference

#plural of poisson