Surprised that my grad-school grasp of French (read: just enough to get the gist of that one article that they insisted I read in its native tongue) was enough to get me 100% on this. Nice.
In Dutch the word for cheap is goedkoop. Which when translated literally would be good buy. (Though no-one usually thinks about this, it is just a word meaning not costing much)
And actually the word cheap comes from cēap which also means buy/that which is bought, just without the good/inexpensive part.
Middle English used to have good chepe, which is basically midway goedkoop and cheap.
The last name Chapman is related to this, and is the equivalent of Dutch koopman, which is still in use, meaning merchant, literally buy(er)man.
Edit and after looking it up, several other languages besides Dutch and French have the same construction, German and italian for example. Though not the usual way of saying cheap in German, which is billig.
Anyway English is the weird one, because cheap really only meant purchase/buy not if it was an expensive buy or not. ;)
I have to say that "avant" is ambiguous. It can mean "before" (as an adverb) or "front" (as a noun), hence it can be the antonym of "après" (after) or "arrière" (rear).
I expect a similar quiz for us learning a proper language (German or Russian) instead of this cheese-eating surrender monkeys speech ;) (Simpsons reference, not meant to offend anyone :) )
I know, I don't understand my own language x), I say "C'est pas cher!" or "C'est un bon prix" for "It's cheap! But it is rare for me, to say " C'est bon marché !", for me it is almost formal language...
C'est que les manuels américains de langue française traduisent « cheap » par « bon marché » sans exception, même si aucun francophone ne dirait ce mot.
I'm American, took French through junior high, high school, and university and was never taught "bon marché". Without context, I thought it might be a store that appeals to a more affluent clientele --- like an upscale boutique. For an antonym, I guessed "marché aux puces".
cornflakesfu, purple is one of a number of colours which is why it cannot have an antonym. There are only two sexes so there is an antonym of male, man, boy etc.
The fact that there are "only" two sexes doesn't mean they are opposite concepts. For me, they are slight variants of the general concept of human. To say they are antonyms is misogynistic (or misandrist...).
A bit difficult for anyone who's never studied French. I guessed three correctly. Without knowing what the words mean, it would be too difficult to commit them to memory, so not even much of a learning experience for me, but praise to those of you who did well.
tu sais que tu es trop influencée par les films (un peu pourris soyons francs) français quand t'entends la voix de jacouille des visiteurs en écrivant jour/nuit… x)
Main droite, Côté droit
And actually the word cheap comes from cēap which also means buy/that which is bought, just without the good/inexpensive part.
Middle English used to have good chepe, which is basically midway goedkoop and cheap.
The last name Chapman is related to this, and is the equivalent of Dutch koopman, which is still in use, meaning merchant, literally buy(er)man.
Edit and after looking it up, several other languages besides Dutch and French have the same construction, German and italian for example. Though not the usual way of saying cheap in German, which is billig.
Anyway English is the weird one, because cheap really only meant purchase/buy not if it was an expensive buy or not. ;)
I knew what it all meant though besides bonne marché. I just couldnt get the right antonyms.
for sur I tried peutetre... anyone else? (antontym of sûr). (that is , after trying sub I think)