Country Names in French Quiz

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Country Names in French Quiz

by Tsunade

Created Nov 21, 2010 in Geography
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	horseydeucey:	Nov 21st, 2010 at 16:53 GMT	8 points
	Birmanie? Beer money!

	Sjoerd:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 00:33 GMT	1 point
	Pays = Countries, Bas = Low, Pays-Bas = Lower Countries/Netherlands. Belgium and the North of France are also sometimes called Pays-Bas.

	ChileNoseJam:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 07:47 GMT	3 points
	'Pays' is the same in the singular, so it can mean 'low country' or 'low countries'. The disambiguation page for 'Pays-Bas' on French Wikipedia lists the modern country as the main entry for that name, but alternatives include the region Sjoerd mentions (which also includes Luxembourg) and various historical states/empires. If you want it to be entirely unambiguous you could use 'Royaume des Pays-Bas', but that would be roughly equivalent to requiring 'Kingdom of Sweden', 'Kingdom of Denmark' etc. on country name quizzes in English. I'd say leave it as it is - technically it's ambiguous but 'Pays-Bas' is the most commonly used name.

	Raynard:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 11:49 GMT	-3 points
	I would do really well if it was "Country Name in English". Dont you all agree?

	dancastro:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 12:33 GMT	3 points
	Après les jeux sur les noms des pays en turc, arménien, swahili, etc., ce jeu me semble très facile! (After the games about country names in Turkish, Armenian, Swahili, etc., this game seems very easy to me!)

	sproutcm:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 15:07 GMT	2 points
	I would love to see the articles (Le, La, Les, L') on all of these because countries are never written without them in French, and they look wrong to me this way. L'Espagne and La Mexique are certainly what someone French would call those countries.

	dancastro:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 15:27 GMT	2 points
	@sproutcm: It's le Mexique. But I suppose that for an imaginary Le Sporcle Français, in a quiz made the other way around (English to French), articles would be omitted for entering the answers (also in English you say "I live in the United States" but for quizzes the answer is just "United States"). By the way, the title for the Wikipédia page is "Mexique", although the article begins "Le Mexique est une république..."

	sproutcm:	Nov 22nd, 2010 at 18:09 GMT	1 point
	@dancastro Yes, of course. All the countries that end in "e" are masculine or something like that my teachers taught me. My French is getting really rusty.

	richie_geo:	Apr 25th, 2011 at 06:01 GMT	1 point
	I'm from the Philippines and I can speak few French languages, I got 23 out of 26, Pays-Bas' I thought it was "Facepass", Birmanie, I thought it was Germany and Lettonie, I thought it was "Little Nee" and I think it was Lithuania!! Good quiz! Au revoir!!

	thebronze:	Jan 16th, 2012 at 20:50 GMT	1 point
	Don't speak French at all but being fluent in Spanish helped me get all.

	Sherry_t:	Feb 13th, 2012 at 13:25 GMT	1 point
	It's Équateur with an accent over the first e. Birmanie is the obsolete name. The French also call it Myanmar.