Hi, one of the examples includes “ passez l’aspirateur”. Presumably this means to use the aspirateur to clean. In English we would not use the direct translation using “pass”. Most often someone would say “do the hoovering”, or possibly “use the hoover” or “use the vacuum cleaner”. I may he wrong, maybe the sentence just means “pass me the hoover (as you are holding it)” but then the example makes less sense. Does passer l’aspirateur mean to use a vacuum cleaner?
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Stephen B.Kwiziq community member
passez l’aspirateur
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Hi Stephen,
Thank you for the question, I have changed the English translation of 'passer l'aspirateur' to the verb 'vacuum or hoover' in that example.
But you are correct 'passer l'aspirateur' is 'to use a vacuum cleaner'.
Bonne Continuation !
Jim J. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Bonjour Stephen,
There have been many posts of this nature before on the Forum.
Passer/se passer/se passer de - the different meanings of the verb "passer" in French
I think the link above will help you to understand more fully.
Hope this helps
Bonne journée
Jim
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