How can “I cycle to work” become “I am going to work” (near future) by bike. That would be if he is a courrier. Shouldn’t it be « je vais au travaille » ? And I thought that by bike would be à vélo.
I go to work ?
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Kwiziq community memberCorrect answer
I wrote "je vais au travail en vélo" and that was accepted.
StuartKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Of course. Au travail. Not what I wrote. What I wrote was corrected with « je vais travailler en vélo »
StuartKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Just checked WordReference. « Aller travailler » is not near future but a fixed phrase that means the same as « aller au travail ». Learned something. :-)
Kwiziq community member
@Elizabeth, I found this article that claims the correct way per the Académie française is "à velo": http://www.astuceshebdo.com/2013/11/a-velo-ou-en-velo-academie-francaise.html
They note that in the current parlance, they both are acceptable, but "en vélo" is not strictly correct. Maybe someone else can confirm?
AnnKwiziq Q&A regular contributor
The lesson cited says with bike one can say either en vélo or à vélo.
Francois Kwiziq community member
Me I wrote "Je fais du vélo pour aller au travail", and sentence was marked as incorrect. Is this equivalet translation really incorrect?
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I go to work ?
How can “I cycle to work” become “I am going to work” (near future) by bike. That would be if he is a courrier. Shouldn’t it be « je vais au travaille » ? And I thought that by bike would be à vélo.
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