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Could you explain why «coquille» is not accepted for "shell"? In LaRousse, «coquillage» appears to primarily mean the group of animals, and can refer to only the soft living part inside the shell. Indeed the first definition of «coquillage» is «Mollusque revêtu d'une coquille».
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/coquillage/19198
In the exercise I am doing, I translated "we would have gone to her house" as "nous serions allés à sa maison", but the correct answer was "nous serions allés dans sa maison". Is there a difference in French between going to the location of someone's home and actually going inside, or are they both "dans"?
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