Dans la maison

Stephanie S.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

In the exercise I am doing, I translated "we would have gone to her house" as "nous serions allés à sa maison", but the correct answer was "nous serions allés dans sa maison". Is there a difference in French between going to the location of someone's home and actually going inside, or are they both "dans"?

This question relates to:French lesson "Dans/sur/sous/devant/derrière/entre = in/on top of/under/in front of/behind/between (French Prepositions of Location)"

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Maarten K.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

Stephanie, see note in the attached lesson. I would have used ‘chez elle’.

As Aurelie explains, “à (possessive pronoun) maison” is not used .

C’est ma maison. Je vais chez moi. Je vais à la maison. But not “je vais à ma maison”.

Chez = at someone's place (French Prepositions)

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Stephanie S. asked:

dans la maison

In the exercise I am doing, I translated "we would have gone to her house" as "nous serions allés à sa maison", but the correct answer was "nous serions allés dans sa maison". Is there a difference in French between going to the location of someone's home and actually going inside, or are they both "dans"?

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