A couple of sentences

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Permalink Reply by Frank on October 17, 2009 at 7:59pm

Hi Crack,

le fruit de is an excellent way to say "the result of". A really good one that you can use in any context and that will always sounds like a native speaker.

Je sors prendre un peu d'exercice.

"prendre" should probably be "faire". It can mean that you're just popping out for brigging the circulation back or that you're going to hit the gym for something more serious.

Il exerce la médecine.

This is correct. But a bit unnatural. "Il est médecin" would be enough.

The rest is perfect.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on October 17, 2009 at 8:37pm

Thanks Frank

Well, I could speak English when I was about 10 years old.
I studied in English at school as well as at university.
However, nowadays I am interested in French and Russian.
I post questions to the Russian forum too.

Just before leaving for the gym, I could say the following:
1.I will go to the gym and train hard now.
2.I will go to the gym and train hard biceps, triceps, quadriceps, calf muscles, back muscles, etc.
Je sors prendre un peu d'exercice.
Do you think the French sentence in question has the connotations of the first and the second sentence?

Frank, I train 3 times a week. Tomorrow after lunch I will rush to the gym and train for about 90 minutes.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on October 17, 2009 at 9:00pm

Well, if an athlete says "Je vais faire de l'exercice", you can guess that he's probably going to train hard. If someone else says the very same sentence, the connotation would rather be "I'm going out for a walk".

Using "s'entrainer" instead of "faire de l'exercice" is a less confusing way to say that you're going to exercise. It's somewhat of a faux ami.

"Je vais à la gym pour m'entrainer" (or if you really want to say "to train hard": "Je vais à la gym pour m'entrainer sec").

But prendre de l'exercice isn't French at all.

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