williamylee

[wintry mountain]

Please be patient

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[remote cradle]

There was a ne dropped in the sentence (totally normal orally/casually)

On **n'**a rendez-vous que dans 10 minutes

Ne...que is a restriction, that you can translate like "only"

We have a meeting/appointment in only 10 minutes

[flint peak]

Would the sentence still be correct with the order of "que" and "dans" reversed?

[remote cradle]

I want to say yes, but I'm not totally sure. Feels awkward to me

[fickle cairn]

Is the "only" emphasizing on "only 10 minutes left" or "I have only one meeting which is in 10 minutes"?

If it is the first case then that sentence doesn't really make sense to me...

[remote cradle]

It's emphasizing the time. If it was saying there's only one, it'd be "on a qu'un rendez-vous..."

And I find the sentence makes sense, emphasizing that the meeting is imminent. "We have an appointment in just 10 minutes!". Or if you translate a bit less literally "we only have 10 minutes before the meeting!"

[fickle cairn]

Ok then why would it not be "On n'a rendez-vous dans que 10 minutes", because the "ne que" is being used to emphasize on the time?