1) Surely glacier should be an acceptable translation for ice cream parlour?
2) I'm struggling with the use of à rather than de for the ice cream scoops. A scoop of vanilla ice cream would be une boule de glace à la vanille, but in removing the word glace, I'd think you'd be left with une boule de vanille.
Merci.
JS
‘ le glacier ‘ is the noun for the person who makes/sells ice cream; the shop or parlour is ‘ la glacerie ‘ . Same difference as between ‘ le boulanger ‘ and ‘ la boulangerie ‘, for example.
Grammatically it is correct to say ‘ aller á la glacerie ‘ ( more commonly used in my experience) or ‘ aller chez le glacier ‘, but the prepositions are not interchangeable.
( Of course, ‘ dans ‘ is also used sometimes with places, but that depends on context, and is not correct in a general statement like this example. It is also not directly interchangeable with ‘ chez ‘ or ‘ à ‘.
I have never heard ‘ une boule de vanille ‘ - this would seem to be like asking for something close to pure vanilla. Can’t say it’s not ever used, but not amongst the French people (mostly aged 50 plus) that I hear speaking.
https://www.wordreference.com/enfr/ice-cream%20parlour
https://www.wordreference.com/fren/glacier
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/glacier/37048
https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/glacier
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/glacerie/37036
https://dictionnaire.lerobert.com/definition/glacerie
1) Surely glacier should be an acceptable translation for ice cream parlour?
2) I'm struggling with the use of à rather than de for the ice cream scoops. A scoop of vanilla ice cream would be une boule de glace à la vanille, but in removing the word glace, I'd think you'd be left with une boule de vanille.
Merci.
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