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jouer à la Venise

English translation: we played the Venice game/played at being in Venice

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French term or phrase:jouer à la Venise
English translation:we played the Venice game/played at being in Venice
Entered by: suezen

13:01 Mar 6, 2006
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: jouer à la Venise
"Comme le dimanche avant on avait été à Bruges avec mes parents, ce jour-là *on jouait à la Venise* avec mon frère et ma soeur."

It's from a film, and the only visual is 2 kids crawling around the floor.

thanks in advance
Katherine Hodkinson
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:49
we played the Venice game/played at being in Venice
Explanation:
as Bruges is nicknamed 'the little Venice', I suppose they were inspired to pretend they were in Venice ...
a guess!
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suezen
Local time: 02:49
Grading comment
thanks, this makes sense - I just wasn't sure if there might be some more specific game called "la Venise"!
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2 +5we played the Venice game/played at being in Venice
suezen
4play Venice style/like we're in Venice
MatthewLaSon


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +5
we played the Venice game/played at being in Venice


Explanation:
as Bruges is nicknamed 'the little Venice', I suppose they were inspired to pretend they were in Venice ...
a guess!

suezen
Local time: 02:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
thanks, this makes sense - I just wasn't sure if there might be some more specific game called "la Venise"!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aisha Maniar: yes, makes sense :-)
3 mins
  -> thanks Aisha :-)
agree  Sandra C.: Definitely. They're pretending they're surrounded by water :-)
53 mins
  -> thanks Sandra :-)
agree  sporran
2 hrs
  -> thanks Sporran
agree  Juan Jacob: Tout à fait: Bruges = La Petite Venise.
2 hrs
  -> thanks Juan
agree  IC --
10 hrs
  -> thanks again !-)
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
play Venice style/like we're in Venice


Explanation:
A game where you act like in you're in Venice, Italy. As if there are gondolas, canals, etc

MatthewLaSon
Local time: 20:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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