What is "ouvrez vos cahiers" in English?

Question

This is my son's homework

Please note that this is a language forum. Proper grammar, including correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, is required. - Goyo, SEP 24, 2009

HI babe, do you think you can write this properly? - 00494d19, SEP 24, 2009

Answer 1

In French

Ouvrez vous

Open your [speaking directly to a group]

cahiers

Notebooks

And it sounds like your son might need to do that

a bit more often for his French class

hahaha - --Mariana--, SEP 24, 2009

Lzanoni- Ouvrez = "You (pl) open" ─ vos cahiers = your (pl) cahiers. Fully translated, "All of you open your own notebooks." - Moe, SEP 24, 2009

Answer 2

Wonder why she's asking questions on a Spanish forum. Shouldn't she at least know which language her son is studying?

jjejejje, great answer! - 00494d19, SEP 24, 2009

lol...Be careful don't want to precipitate another French and Spanish war - Izanoni1, SEP 24, 2009

Answer 3

This is French , how about going to a French dictionary.

Gus is correct, it is French. It means "Open your note (exercise) books". - Moe, SEP 24, 2009

rofl - cheeseisyummy, SEP 24, 2009

Answer 4

Please note that this is a language forum. Proper grammar, including correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, is required. - Greg-Hahn

Please remember this is a learning site, anyway, as it seems, your son is learning French, which might come as a shock to you as you are posting this on a Spanish-English site.

Answer 5

Gus is correct, it is French. It means "Open your note (exercise) books"

In most cases just using cahiers would mean your notebook, but it is short for cahiers pour écrire or cahiers à spirales. Most of the time it is simply called cahier.

An exercise book, however, is usually referred to as cahier d'exercices or cahier écolier.

It would probably depend on what the teacher has been referring to as cahier since the beginning of the semester.