Re Weekend writing challenge week 11 B1:
I know that this writing challenge was some weeks ago but could you explain the use of 'pour de bon' to mean 'for sure'. I looked in several dictionaries and pour de bon was translated as 'for good', 'for keeps' or 'forever', whereas 'for sure' seems to be most commonly translated into French by 'avec certitude'.
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Comments: 4
Bonjour Wilma !
As a native speaker, the use of "pour de bon" here felt natural, however I agree that a better version would be "Je n’ai jamais su avec certitude", which I've now added to the challenge.
Merci et à bientôt !
This comment relates to many of the writing challenges. Often your only acceptable answers often leave out other synonyms or phrases that are found in reliable dictionaries. Would it be possible to add a comment to the effect that there may be other words that would be
ok in the context.
Hi Judy - we have a new version of these coming soon which will have more features so we can add this to the wish-list. Thanks for the great suggestion!