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#2 (permalink) Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:34 am Who are the hotel guests? |
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Hi,
'The guests' are the other people saying at the hotel.
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#3 (permalink) Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:03 am Who are the hotel guests? |
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Hello Mr. Alan,
It's again me. One question, can we write 'inhabitant' in this case? I ask you this because in my mind like in French we can consider these people like inhabitants for a temporary time. Do you follow what I mean?
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The French I'm here quite often ;-)
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#4 (permalink) Wed Apr 21, 2010 11:50 am Who are the hotel guests? |
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Hi,
'Inhabitants' are people who are living there/have been living there for a considerable time. They are, as it were. the natives and we wouldn't use that word for people staying in a hotel. You could use 'occupants of the hotel' in an official sense as in: All the occupants of the hotel were evacuated during the fire.
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#5 (permalink) Wed Apr 21, 2010 15:13 pm Who are the hotel guests? |
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Hello Alan,
It is all right.
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The French I'm here quite often ;-)
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