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Originally Posted by brianluedke
Some of the above points were correct, but ignore the one suggesting that French people do not use articles. The opposite is true, although this misperception has certainly helped me through the years, eliminating misinformed, potential competitors.
Just consider my lead over the government of Gabon with my LeGabon.com versus their LeGabon.org.
Or my lead with LaSemaine.com ("Week" or "The Week") over the French government with LaSemaine.org or a private newspaper with LaSemaine.fr.
Consider my leurope.com over any number of national extentions.
Consider company Web sites such as limmobilier.com ("Real Estate", or "The Real Estate") or lavion.com ("Plane" or "The Plane").
In fact, in French, the article is so important, that a noun makes no grammatical sense without it. By contrast, in English, the article is not even necessary. If you look up "Africa" in a French-English dictionary, if they're giving you the full translation, they will provide "L'Afrique", and NOT "Afrique".
If you don't think the article is important, try writing a sentence with "Afrique" as the subject, without including the article. Impossible!
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No, no and no !
First, Limmobilier is absolutely unknow to me. I know very well this market, I can tell you limmobilier is zero in french real estate market.
If he take it, it's only because immobilier was taken. See immobilier.fr for example, which is quite important in the market.
On the other hand, think about the possibilities immobilier give you:
credit.immobilier
annonces.immobilier
paris.immobilier
etc...
"In fact, in French, the article is so important, that a noun makes no grammatical sense without it."
Wrong and you can not generalize.
But sometimes and only sometimes, it can sound better with an article.
[i]It's why i recently reg les-crédits, yes a shame for most of members here because of article+hyphen, but a very good key for me because with 'les' you generalize on all credit market.[/i]
So, i would advice members to avoid articles, better to take with an hypphen here.
Everybody here understand you say that because you haven't senegal nor gabon.
Or maybe you speak for francophone african countries, but for the french market your comment is quite wrong.