centre commercial
mall
The French word for mall is 'centre commercial'. It is used very similarly to English, referring to a large enclosed building with a variety of stores and businesses. You might also hear the phrase 'aller au centre commercial', which means 'to go to the mall'.
Example sentences using: centre commercial
J'ai besoin d'aller au centre commercial pour acheter des vêtements.
I need to go to the shopping mall to buy clothes.
This sentence indicates a need to visit the shopping mall for the purpose of purchasing clothes. The verb 'ai besoin' is used for expressing need or necessity in French.
Nous allons au centre commercial tous les samedis.
We go to the shopping mall every Saturday.
This is expressing a recurring event, where the subject 'we' visit the shopping mall each Saturday. 'Tous les samedis' represents a habitual action happening on a set time frame in French.
Le centre commercial est à cinq minutes de marche.
The shopping mall is a five minute walk away.
This sentence implies the relative distance to the shopping mall from the current location. In French, time duration can be used to express distance, especially in casual conversation as in this example.