It can be hard for us English speakers to know when to use des and when to omit it, since we don’t really have it in English. For us, “books” sounds like it has the same status in these sentences: ...
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Pourquoi « j’ai besoin DE lunettes » ?
Business EditorsLes deux phrases seraient justes mais le sens est différent : J’ai besoin de lunettes signifie que tu as besoin d’acheter des lunettes (techniquement “de des lunettes”), sans plus de détails. J’ai besoin des lunettes signifie que tu as besoin ...
What is the proper articles for these sentences ?
Business EditorsNo native speaker but I’d say that it is most possibly a typo. Il faut acheter de l‘eau et du[1] café. [1] De+le contract into du (search for article partitif).
Does the article come before or after a numeral value?
Associations EditorsThe first one is grammatically wrong, the second one is a wrong translation. The numeral removes the requirement for an article so that should be: J’ai cinq voitures rouges. Variants would have a different meaning: J’ai les cinq voitures rouges. ...
Why “Je viens de l’acheter” even if we have just bought “un livre”?
Associations EditorsYou are right about the vowel part, consider these two examples: Du pain (instead of “de le pain”) But: De l’alcool (“alcool” is also masculine, yet “du alcool” is incorrect) However, in your example the words “de” and “l’” are ...
Dealing with compounded article prefixes when sorting
Associations EditorsI would say: École des Facteurs, L’ The article is part of the title, it doesn’t make sense to put it behind. Would you use Cain John, Mc? I would use L’école des facteurs as no one can think about ...
Why does “un” switch to “de” when negating?
Associations EditorsOften, indefinite articles (un/une/des) change to « de » when negated, even if it’s plural. J’ai vu un chien chez toi / Je n’ai pas vu de chien chez toi Tu veux une pastèque fraîche ? / Tu ne veux ...
Is it “Le progrès c’est bon” or “Le progrès est bon”
Business EditorsA When one is talking about “progrès en général” only the first sentence is used but slightly modified ; “bon” means “positive”, that “progrès” is something of value. Le progrès, c’est bon. A variant of that sentence can also be ...
Usage of “de” at the beginning of a sentence
Associations EditorsIn this sentence, de is the plural form of the indefinite article. It means that some little girls read books. Usually the plural indefinite article is des. However it becomes de in two cases: When the noun group is a ...
Pronunciation of “du 11 septembre 2001”?
Associations Editors“Onze” is a weird word. You generally don’t elide the word that precedes it, as if it started with an aspirated h. Thus, you don’t say “*l’onze septembre” but “le onze septembre”, and you both write and pronounce: du onze ...