At your cost

Hi folks,

Shall we visit Paris at your cost ?
Nous visitons Paris à votre coût ?

Is there such way of speaking in French?

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on July 20, 2009 at 11:28am

Frank
If your boss or someone asks something, I believe the following is correct.

Il/elle m'a demande porter une cravate tous les jours.

He asked me to wear a tie everyday.
Do you think it should be the verb 'exiger' here?

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Permalink Reply by Frank on July 20, 2009 at 12:23pm

Hello Crack,

Yes, it's absolutely correct, it just lacks "de": elle m'a demandé de porter une cravate tous les jours.

"exiger" would be correct as well, but it'd be way stronger. She asked you once ("elle m'a demandé..."), for some reason you forgot/refused to wear one, then "elle a exigé que je porte une cravate tous les jours". Means that if you forget again, you're likely to get canned.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on July 20, 2009 at 5:42pm

Thanks Frank
Elle m'a demandé de porter une cravate tous les jours.
She requested/asked to wear a tie everyday. [ She maybe the boss.]
Elle m'a exigé de porter une cravate tous les jours.

It should be 'demandé de'. How about the words 'exigé de' ?
May be it is incorrect to write 'exige de'. Please tell me.
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1Je ne meurt pas d'envie de manger un hamburger.

2.Je ne crève pas d'envie de manger un hamburger.

The verb meurt comes from 'mourir'.

'Je ne meurt pas' means I am not going to die.
'Envie means' something like wish.

The verb crève comes from the verb 'crever'. It means some puncture or to burst.
I don't know how to translate the first and the second sentence into English. Please help me.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on July 20, 2009 at 6:36pm

Hello Crack,

Here's how it would be with "exiger":

Elle a exigé que je porte une cravate tous les jours

(+ subjunctive)

Sentences 1 and 2 are totally equivalent. The second one is just more informal.
They are negative forms for "Je meurt d'envie" (ie. "I'm dying for") and mean that you really don't feel like doing/having something.

Je ne meurt pas d'envie de manger un hamburger => literally "I'm not dying to eat a hamburger", but more like "I really don't feel like having a hamburger".