{"id":6710,"date":"2012-03-02T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:55:04","slug":"les-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6710","title":{"rendered":"Les courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered yesterday that French equivalents of ‘to go shopping’ or ‘to do the shopping’ are faire des courses<\/em> or faire les commissions<\/em>, which also mean ‘to run errands’. These expressions were new to me because when in French I’ve either stayed with families or in hotels and have never had to do or talk about such activities.<\/p>\n

According to Reverso<\/a> (to go) shopping (for food\/groceries) is (faire) les courses<\/em>, but shopping as a leisure activity is le shopping<\/em>. In English you might say, ‘I am doing the<\/strong> shopping’ = I am shopping for food\/groceries, but ‘I love shopping’ might refer to the leisure aspect of the activity. Do you make this distinction?<\/p>\n

Related expressions include:
\n– partir faire les magasins = to go on a shopping expedition\/trip
\n– les courses alimentaires = food shopping
\n– liste des courses = shopping list
\n– achat en ligne = online shopping
\n– centre commercial = shopping arcade \/ precinct \/ centre \/ mall
\n– sac\/panier \u00e0 provisions = shopping bag\/basket
\n– caddie (m) = shopping trolley \/ cart
\n– faire du l\u00e8che-vitrines = to go window shopping
\n– faire ses cadeaux de No\u00ebl = to do one’s Christmas shopping<\/p>\n

One way to practise languages you’re learning is to use them to write shopping lists. I usually write mine in Welsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered yesterday that French equivalents of ‘to go shopping’ or ‘to do the shopping’ are faire des courses or faire les commissions, which also mean ‘to run errands’. These expressions were new to me because when in French I’ve either stayed with families or in hotels and have never had to do or talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}