Madeline
Le vêtement, l'habit et la fringue As I understand it all mean 'item of clothing' is there a difference between them? Are they used to say different things? Which one is most commonly used in France?
May 27, 2014 10:25 PM
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Habit is posh clothes, like a suit (Bel habit ! - Nice clotes). Vêtement is just clothes, Fringue is street talk, a bit trash for my taste, like saying "I like my rags" instead of "I like my clothes". Here's another one for you: "linge" (always singular) also mean clothes, but it's less used. In Canada it would be used in expression like "I wash the clothes, I hang the clothes" (je lave le linge, j'étends le linge) and in France, I've heard they call their thumble dryier a "sèche-linge". don't pronounced "lin-juh" with an English IN, you got to make sure you pronounce the French IN (hard to explain, but closer to EN or AIN)
May 28, 2014
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"fringue" is informal and to be honest it's "has been" Vetement and habit are used as each other.
May 28, 2014
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