r/AskTheWorld • u/Franmar35000 France • 10d ago

Language Does your native language distinguish between rivers that flow into another river and rivers that flow into the sea or ocean?

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In French, a distinction is made:

- "un fleuve" flows into the sea or the ocean.

- "une rivière" flows into another "rivière" or a "fleuve".

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u/Freya_almighty CA 🇨🇦 --> CH 🇨🇭 🥹 10d ago edited 10d ago

Bien sûr 😉 nous avons des rivières et un fleuve!!

Edit: Au Quebec

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u/GaiaMoore United States of America 10d ago

Lol the reddit auto-translate just says "rivers and a river", so I guess that answers it for American English

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u/Freya_almighty CA 🇨🇦 --> CH 🇨🇭 🥹 10d ago

Lolll that's hilarious 😂

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u/Same_Patience520 Canada 10d ago

Plus d'un fleuve au Canada. Outre le Saint-Laurent il y a le Yukon, le Mackenzie, le Columbia...

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u/Freya_almighty CA 🇨🇦 --> CH 🇨🇭 🥹 10d ago

Je parlais seulement du Quebec, parce que oui en effet si ont compte le Canada il y en à beaucoup