French word for poster

Connie C.C1Kwiziq community member

French word for poster

In the exercise “La Super Chambre de ma Fille”, I filled the blank in the following sentence with the word “affiches” for “posters” but it marked my answer as Incorrect and said I should have used the word “posters”.   Doesn’t “affiches” also mean posters?

elle a accroché des affiches des Avengers 

Asked 5 years ago
CécileNative French expert teacher in KwiziqCorrect answer

Hi Connie,

If you take a look at the following link /conversation with another student who asked the same question -

https://french.kwiziq.com/questions/view/why-can-t-you-use-the-word-affiche-for-a-poster

Hope this helps!

Connie C.C1Kwiziq community member

Merci Cécile !  “Poster” is certainly easy to remember !

Connie C. asked:

French word for poster

In the exercise “La Super Chambre de ma Fille”, I filled the blank in the following sentence with the word “affiches” for “posters” but it marked my answer as Incorrect and said I should have used the word “posters”.   Doesn’t “affiches” also mean posters?

elle a accroché des affiches des Avengers 

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