I wrote “nous sommes ouvertes” as it was “the Bank” that was giving the information or am I just being too literal here ?
Nous sommes ouverts
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Anita P.Kwiziq Q&A regular contributor
Nous sommes ouverts
This question relates to:French writing exercise "Phone call from the bank"
Asked 5 years ago
Hi Anita,
You cannot say, ' nous sommes ouvertes' as the 'nous' in grammatical terms is always masculine and plural when it is a combination of people.
Here it does stand for the bank and you could have said -
La banque ouvre de ... à ...
but really it is quite common to say, speaking of an establishment :
Nous sommes ouverts de ... à ...
Hope this helps!
Chris W. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
I guess ouvertes sounds like there are only female employees at the bank.
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