I think “à la suite d’une fusillade mortelle” means “following a fatal shooting,” but can’t figure out without the first half. Something tells me that “crie” is not a verb in this case…

I could use Google translate, but I’d rather have a discussion with people here!

  • k0e3@lemmy.caOPM
    2·
    3 months ago

    Ah, thank you. I always get confused when adjectives nations don’t get capitalised in French.

    • drre@feddit.org
      2·
      3 months ago

      hu didn’t know there was a rule like that , i kinda assumed a typo in the headline. but it makes sense i guess. thanks

      • k0e3@lemmy.caOPM
        1·
        3 months ago

        Oh I dunno, I think when it’s an adjective, it’s not capitalized, but when it’s the noun, it’s capitalized… I dunno, someone who is better needs to correct me if I’m wrong. Like, un homme japonais, but Il est Japonais. I think.

        • Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          1 month ago

          You’re right that’s what we were taught in school : when using the noun, you’d capitalize it : (e.g. a Spaniard, an English, a Frenchman, etc…), but as an adjective you don’t (a spanish boat, an english breakfast, a french movie, etc…)

          • k0e3@lemmy.caOPM
            1·
            1 month ago

            Thanks for the clarification. I was pretty sure there was a rule like that but wasn’t confident, haha.

    • Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      1 month ago

      Also what’s confusing here to me as a native is that Québec has this law/tendency to frenchify everything. So, for instance in France the name of the nation would’ve been written as “Cree” to follow the English standard, since most of our mentions of them come from English literature. But I admit Québec is right on that one

      • k0e3@lemmy.caOPM
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yeah! I don’t know if it’s a case of “frenchifying,” but I was surprised to learn that in France, your stop signs say STOP and not ARRÊT like here. Pretty neat.