Owen

[clever minnow]

Please be patient

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[spare wagon]

assigned

[silver radish]

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/détaché

Always check Wordreference for single word definitions

[spare wagon]

this one is hella hard to find tbh

[native spade]

what does au poste 41 do here

[silver radish]

it's the station or shift he was assigned to.

"I was assigned to station 41"
What that means exactly is context dependant

[native spade]

yeh but how does that work with détaché here

détaché au poste 41

should it not be détaché du poste 41?

wait does détaché mean assigned or sent on an assignment im confused

if its the former then au makes sense

[silver radish]

détaché à un poste
assigned to a station

[native spade]

but if its the latter i dont really get it

[silver radish]

assigned to a station
sent on an assignment to a station
not very different

[native spade]

yeh ok