Asking permission to look around

Hi folks,

Getting into a shop to ask permission looking around, can I say;

Peux je regarde autour de la magasin ?

Or just;

Peux je regarde autour ?

Merci

satimis

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Permalink Reply by Frank on November 7, 2009 at 3:03pm

Hi Stephen. "around" is one of those words that change the meaning of a verb in English, but that you can't translate literally in another language.

You can just ask: "est-ce que je peux regarder ?".
Or better, use the expression "est-ce que je peux jeter un coup d'œil ?" (= take a look).

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Permalink Reply by Stephen Liu on November 8, 2009 at 10:16am

Hi Frank.

Thanks for your advice.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coup_d'œil

Noun coup d’œil m. = glance, look

Stephen L