le meilleur mot

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le meilleur mot

[quaint valley]

Just to give the best possible answer, what are you trying to say in English?

[cedar helm]

is my french that bad

[cedar helm]

what's the best word in that scenario

In a sense, it means the même thing no? discovers/ opens a route

[quaint valley]

Not at all, but there's a difference between something that opens the world to a certain culture, and discovering that culture.

I just don't want to lead you astray.

[quaint valley]

In a 'Travelling opens you up to other/new cultures' way?

[cedar helm]

correct.

[quaint valley]

'Voyager nous ouvre à de nouvelles cultures et nous permet d'observer d'autres modes de vie.'

That's how I'd phrase it.

Le voyage is the noun: the journey.

[cedar helm]

is it not travel

[quaint valley]

So unsure if you mean a specific adventure or travelling as a whole.

To travel/travelling would be 'Voyager' here.

[cedar helm]

so the question i had was:

Aimez-vous voyager ? Pourquoi ?

and I was crafting a response..

Je crois que voyager est tres essential parce que this and this . and then this sentence above

[quaint valley]

Literally meaning 'To travel opens us up to ...'

It's a good response.

[cedar helm]

so ouvert means opening up something

and decouvert means discovering something

do i have my terms right?

[quaint valley]

Ouvert is the adjective: open (masculine).

Découvert is one of the conjugations for 'to discover', you're right.

The noun (a discovery) is 'la découverte'.

@inner willow also gave a great response:

[cedar helm]

merci pour la assiste

[quaint valley]

mot-quelle est vraiment?
This, however, does not make sense.

Word-which is really?

[quaint valley]

De rien. :D

Le mot (masc) -> quel.

'Quel est le bon mot ?' would work.

[cedar helm]

my intention was there to write:

which word is best

or correct

true means vraiment

oh wait it doesntt

vrai means true

[quaint valley]

Vraiment is 'really'.

And 'vrai' is mostly for true/false and less for correct/wrong.

But there's a great French word that you'll recognise in English: correct.

'Quel mot est correct/Quel est le mot correct ?'

[cedar helm]

so common thing we hear, not sure if this is just canadian way of saying it

but you put the subject in front

[quaint valley]

As in 'mot-quel'? 🤔

[cedar helm]

yes

[quaint valley]

Never seen that before, but I don't know enough about Quebecan French to comment on it.

[cedar helm]

i may be comparing them with the

est-ce que

[quaint valley]

That's definitely used, both here and there.

[scenic moth]

"mot-quel" would not work in any dialect of French

[quaint valley]

I had a very strong feeling, but confirmation is much appreciated. :D

[echo yarrow]

Permet btw

"mot-quel" is not said in Canada, and is not at all structured like "est-ce que"

[quaint valley]

Oups.

[hoary violet]

i feel like you need to take some time to just think about how the syntax is actually working...

"est-ce qu'il pleut" could be translated very literally as "is it that it rains?"

im not sure how mot-quelle could possibly work

est-ce is the inversion of "c'est"