Help with a sentence

[Eilsel]

Is the sentence "vous dépensez l'eau" right? And if it's not, why?

What I want to say "you waste the water"

Thanks :)

[Pickles]

If you really mean "wasting" then gaspiller is probably a better verb to use.

[Chancer]

De l'eau maybe?

Vous gaspillez de l'eau

Vous depensez l'argent comme l'eau.

Not sure about the right, perhaps "quoi!" or even "innit!" [;-)]

[idun]

Might help to know what the OP wants to say in english.

[Chancer]

A rather strange first posting I thought but being trusting I fell for it.

[Eilsel]

[quote user="Chancer"]

De l'eau maybe?

Vous gaspillez de l'eau

Vous depensez l'argent comme l'eau.

Not sure about the right, perhaps "quoi!" or even "innit!" [;-)]

[/quote]

I dont really understand what you mean

[idun]

lol, sadly your sentence did not make any sense Eilsel and you've left posters guessing as to what on earth you could mean.

If you still need help, then please write down what you want to say in french, in english and then maybe someone will be able to help you.

And there is nothing wrong with Chancer's guesses, I understand all four lines.[:D]

[Eilsel]

I edited my first message, what I wanted to say was "you waste the water" but I already guess it's very wrong lol

[quote user="idun"]

And there is nothing wrong with Chancer's guesses, I understand all four lines.[:D]

[/quote]

My french (as you can see) is veeeery basic so I didnt understand him.

Thanks for replying! :)

[suein56]

[quote user="Chancer"]

Vous gaspillez de l'eau

[/quote]

+1; wins my vote.

Sue

[idun]

Waste is gaspillage, verbe gaspiller, so as Chancer said 'vous gaspillez de l'eau' would do.

Maybe a good french / english dictionnary and a Bescherelle Conjugaison book would help you.

[Loiseau]

I think what confused the OP was that Chancer had also translated the word "right", thinking it was part of the sentence being asked about, though it is not actually within the original quotation marks.

Angela

[Chancer]

I was just being a [6] actually!!!

[NormanH]

Diabolo Mente?

[ericd]

[quote user="suein56"][quote user="Chancer"]

Vous gaspillez de l'eau

[/quote]

+1; wins my vote.

Sue

[/quote]

Correct verb Chancer, although ok as a phrase (no need to say "de l'eau"), it lacks meaning in the context of a phrase.

- If you are telling kids to stop playing with the tap " Arretez de gaspiller l'eau"

or "Vous gaspillez beaucoup trop d'eau en laissant le robinet ouvert"

[mint]

If it's just kids wasting water, why not just hold up your thumb and say "pouce"?

Seems to work OK and saves you having to remember tricky vocabulaire?[;-)]

[idun]

Well you have me there sweet17. I have no idea why I would say 'pouce' at all. No idea of what it would mean.

I have been known to say 'ma puce' to my or other kids, but never pouce. 

Please explain.

And the way we speak french, well  does the word eau even have to be used. I daresay if someone was wasting water in front of me, I would likely say quel gaspillage!, the look they would get would say the rest and that I was 'not amused'.

[mint]

Id, if you held your thumb out in front of you and say "pouce", it's the equivalent "stop"!  Useful or what?[:)]

[ericd]

[quote user="sweet 17"]Id, if you held your thumb out in front of you and say "pouce", it's the equivalent "stop"!  Useful or what?[:)][/quote]

 

This is true Sweet17 BUT ......only if you are at Maternelle school level or 6 year old. We used this at school in the middle of a game to stop everything happening in order to explain something. Can't think of a way for it being used in an adult discussion.

[idun]

Well if sweet17 has adapted this to every day life, then I have probably done worse, my faux pas are endless.[Www]

[mint]

[quote user="ericd"]

[quote user="sweet 17"]Id, if you held your thumb out in front of you and say "pouce", it's the equivalent "stop"!  Useful or what?[:)][/quote]

 

This is true Sweet17 BUT ......only if you are at Maternelle school level or 6 year old. We used this at school in the middle of a game to stop everything happening in order to explain something. Can't think of a way for it being used in an adult discussion.

[/quote]

Hah, I can, eric!

What about le roi des andouilles, my neighbour, who was burning wet green stuff in his garden, making so much acrid smoke that I couldn't breathe even taking extra puffs of my inhaler?

Well, he didn't actually stop until I had a word with the maire who then had a word with him.

If adults WOULD behave like naughty children, then they deserve to be treated the same way [:'(]