Simon

thank you

我が忘却の底よりもたらす. My understanding is "I will bring more than what has been forgotten about me" or something like that? Is my interpretation good?

The ones that could teach the class probably already noticed your mistake, but they also noticed that you didn't fix it. I believe, for the majority, that it is the latter that could make you lose authority or even respect.

So you have to be careful

It will sound wrong

You can't translate "I slept at a luxury hotel" to "J'ai dormi à l'hôtel de luxe"

Even this: "J'ai dormi à un hôtel de luxe"

For example, as soon as you add an adjective, it would become "J'ai dormi à un magnifique hôtel hier soir" and not "J'ai dormi à le magnifique hôtel hier soir"

Cette notation peut évidemment faire référence à un hôtel que Proust aurait connu et que ... 1999

When you make a generic statement like that it doesn't work

Le locataire s'engage envers Transport Canada à décorer et équiper l'hôtel comme il sied à un hôtel de première classe

@Lambie It would be a bad conclusion to say that "à l'hotel" is generic because it's not, it's a bad use of the language that is preferred in very specific cases. Note that you can't use "à l'hotel" for everything. Some context just doesn't work:

Cheers, thanks for the discussion

In English you guys have the advantage of having "to", but we don't have it

You have no idea what park I'm talking about

I'm talking to you about my life and I say, "This afternoon, I'll go to the park with my kids" Are you sure this doesn't work?

"Going to the park", "Going to the cinema", "Going to the hotel"

Isn't it more general, "Going to the" would work for pretty much anywhere?

Here note that we don't have an equivalent to "To" in French

You will also never be "Going to the hotel"

like "Going to the restaurant" as you said

so it's even more confusing

But that same idea does exist in English

I must be confusing both idioms since I'm daily in an english and french environment

I guess it is

It's so rare that I come across going to the hotel that I'm not even sure to be fair

I'm thinking

Maybe as I said, we're so used to both languages here that we're using both idioms...

Yes

Yes

Yeah

But there's no way to prove it here...

The thing is, you're explaining it with the grammar, but I feel like it's not true in casual English.

wouldn't be possible

I slept at the hotel

Same thing with sleep ?

Wait but I also changed the verb

At least in spoken English

And yet, I have a feeling that most people would use "I was a the hotel" in that situation

You would say this isn't possible?

Basically it's your wife asking "You didn't sleep home last night, where were you?" "I was at the hotel"

In my example you don't have all this information.

This is not the same context

But in French I guess it's used more aggressively

So this use is not completely "alien" to English

Without nobody knowing what hotel we're talking about

But I'm confident english people would also say it

"I slept at the hotel" would be wrong

Take this example, if you generalize what you said previously, this means that this response is not possible

It's fine I was the one to ask