Jeudi, elle a un rendez-vous. -Tu veux dire ce jeudi ou ________ ?
A bit puzzled.. I answered this with le jeudi prochain and marked as incorrect.. wanted le jeudi d'après..but checking in Linguee.. it gives prochain in its examples.
Jeudi, elle a un rendez-vous. -Tu veux dire ce jeudi ou ________ ?
A bit puzzled.. I answered this with le jeudi prochain and marked as incorrect.. wanted le jeudi d'après..but checking in Linguee.. it gives prochain in its examples.
Hi Mark,
When to use 'suivant' and not 'prochain' is quite tricky and this is a very common mistake made by English speakers.
In temporal terms you will use 'prochain' when you mean 'next' in relation to today:
which is 12th August ( today being Saturday 7th August).
but you will say
'la semaine suivante' for week beginning 16th August ...
In the example situation ( in an unknown time frame), you will use 'suivant -
Or
which are both accepted.
Hope this helps!
Hello Cécile.. thank you for the clarification of when to use suivant.. but, if I am getting this right.. you are agreeing that jeudi prochain would be correct in the context of this or next.. as the time frame is properly defined.. but my problem is that Kwiziq has marked that answer incorrect and demanded d'après... if there is a this Thursday, ce jeudi, jeudi prochain has to mean next Thursday.. which is what I am trying to say.. otherwise, if it is Monday, when is jeudi prochain?
Hi Mark,
I deleted my previous offer because I thought that Cécile had covered all of the options.
However, if we were to write "prochain jeudi" this would mean the following Thursday as in a series of Thursdays going forward.
Prochain can be used on either side of the day and changes the meaning.
Hope this helps.
Jim
Thanks Jim.. clearly I am expressing myself poorly.. if it is Monday and I say "ce jeudi et le jeudi prochain " does or does that not mean this Thursday(3days) and next Thursday? (10days).. and, if wrong, what does it mean?
You don't use the article with jeudi. The definite article is only used when specifying every Thursday (i.e., Thursdays)
Hi Mark,
I am really not sure of the distinction you are making. In the question, it can only be 'suivant' or 'd'après' and the English was -
( to help you)
It is a bit the same as with yesterday and the day before. When telling a story you will not use 'yesterday' but the day before which could have been two weeks ago as clearly 'yesterday' is yesterday, a point in real-time in relation to 'today'.
Hope this helps!
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