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[pure lichen]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[gloomy zephyr]

"buying food in France is going to be more and more expensive"
The use of future already implies a transition.
You could use "devenir" as well, for instance "le coût de la nourriture va devenir de plus en plus élevé"

[round coyote]

But couter = to cost.

Is the buying going to ‘cost’ more expensive or just become more expensive 😋

Please let me know if this is just the way French say ‘ to become more expensive ‘ <couter plus en plus cher>

[gloomy zephyr]

coûter cher is just to be expensive

the transition is conveyed through future sense

ça va coûter cher => it's going to be expensive (simplified sentence for example purposes)

[round coyote]

Okay. i think I got it. So we can say ‘ ça coute chèr’ in french, which does not make sense in eng if we translate it literally < it costs expensive>

[gloomy zephyr]

yes

[pallid shale]

Don't try to translate word for word too much, it's often going to be unhelpful

[round coyote]

Lol yes yes.