dacheungy

[tough wren]

Please be patient

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[open coyote]

It is indeed the right place to ask. How bout you give the sentence a try first, then we can help you correct if needed.

[supple marlin]

👍

[supple marlin]

c'est un coup difficile?

Not really sure about swimming terms.

[open coyote]

Have you tried looking up “stroke” in the dictionary?

Like wordreference?

[supple marlin]

Yeah its coup de natation or something

[warped umbra]

https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/stroke

Bookmark that site, it's a wonderful bilingual dictionary

[supple marlin]

Thanks.

So i use nage instead of coup?

[warped umbra]

Yeah, you should really look at other definitions

How did you come to « coup de natation » in the first place?

[supple marlin]

My teacher said that.

[open coyote]

Time to find a different teacher lol

[warped umbra]

If your teacher isn't familiar with swimming, it's possible they confused styles of swimming with the movement itself, both of which are called 'stroke'

[peak fulcrum]

Maybe they said something else and you misunderstood it? The correct term for swimming stroke is nage, la nage papillon est un style de nage

[gloomy mica]

Definitely nage.
Coup de natation is a bit weird.

[trim locust]

yeah id only ever say une nage for a style of swimming