hôtel de police – Mot du jour
police station – French expression
What does ” un hôtel de police ” mean? How do you say ‘ a police station ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com.
un hôtel de police – a hotel of police. I’m sure you figured out un hôtel de police isn’t a hotel at all. In everyday French, un hôtel de police is ‘a police station, a police precinct’.
- « Si tu ne paies pas tes articles, tu finiras à l’hôtel de police. »
- “If you don’t pay for your items, you’ll end up at the police station.”
Tenses and Modes
- présent -> futur : Si tu ne paies pas tes articles, tu finiras à l’hôtel de police.
- plus-que-parfait -> conditionnel passé : Si tu n’avais pas payé tes articles, tu aurais fini à l’hôtel de police. (If you hadn’t paid for your items, you would have ended up at the police station.)
Practice
Future Tense – Irregular Verbs Quiz
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