admission / admissions

[pmin]

J'ai vu sur le dictionnaire que "admission" pouvait etre dénombrable et indénombrable. Pouvez vous m'expliquer comment ça marche
Voilà ma phrase
"you answer the phone to tell the visitors about the opening hours and the admissions"
Merci

 

[misterk]

That phrase does not sound natural, at least in AE. What do you mean by "the admissions"? The admission fees?

 

[pmin]

Yes the admission fees. How would you say this sentence to make it more natural?

 

[Nessajel]

Je dirais que le "non dénombrable", c'est ce qui correspond à l'admission/l'inscription à l'université ou ailleurs.

Les admissions, par contre, "dénombrables", correspondraient plus aux admissions d'un hopital, aux entrées. (je pense que c'est ce qui est dit dans ton contexte).

 

[pmin]

Je parle du prix d'entréé dans un musée

 

[misterk]

In AE, we'd simply say "..and the admission fees" or "...and the price of admission."
Perhaps the answer is different in BE.

 

[pmin]

J'ai pourtant trouvé ca sur le dictionnaire:
admission: the amount of money that you pay to go into a building or to an event
admission charges/prices
£5 admission
What's the admission?

 

[misterk]

admission: the amount of money that you pay to go into a building or to an event
admission charges/prices But if admission = the amount of money, why would you need the word "charges" or "prices", which also refer to the amount of money? I think admission simply means entry into a building (in your context), and charges/prices/fees are the money that is charged for that entry.
£5 admission On a sign in the ticket window, it is clear that £5 is the cost of admission.
What's the admission? Here, too, if you were standing at the ticket window and asked "What's the admission?" it would be very clear that you were asking about the price of admission. But if you said to someone in the street, "I love the Louvre" and they responded "What's the admission?", that would be a strange conversation...