Mon tableau

Stewart H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Mon tableau

The suggested answers to My favourite painting is called "The Sunflowers”, are

Mon tableau favori s'appelle "Les Tournesols” and Mon tableau préféré s'appelle "Les Tournesols”,... Presumably 'Ma painture' could be substituted for 'Mon tableau' ??

This question relates to:French writing exercise "My favourite work of art"

Freeform Writing Exercise A2

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Chris W.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor

Tableau et peinture (note the spelling: with an "e") are almost synonyms and, in the context of this sentence you could use either.

Here is a nice discussion which focuses on the difference between the two words:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/tableau-peinture.1495458/

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Stewart H.C1Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor

Thanks Chris and also for pointing to the wordreference discussion page.

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Mon tableau

The suggested answers to My favourite painting is called "The Sunflowers”, are

Mon tableau favori s'appelle "Les Tournesols” and Mon tableau préféré s'appelle "Les Tournesols”,... Presumably 'Ma painture' could be substituted for 'Mon tableau' ??

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