The verb “manquer” can be used with “de” as described in the page you quote. [Quelqu’un] manque de [quelque chose] “courage”, “résolution”, “mémoire”, “vivres” , etc. refer to uncountable notions or undefined amounts of countable things, as you could say ...
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la notion de/du temps
Associations EditorsD’un point de vue du sens : La notion de temps renvoie plutôt à une manière de concevoir le temps, elle met l’emphase sur le mot temps. La notion de temps chez Platon. Une réflexion sur la notion de temps. ...
“De” vs “des” in plural context
Business EditorsYou have to use “des” when there are many objects (lapin**S** here) and “de” when there is only one object (1 lapin here) Sentences 2 and 4 are right. In this context, I think that ‘de’ is only used in ...
How does one say “difference of two squares” in French?
Associations EditorsIf the two squares you consider are well defined, it’s indeed “la différence des deux carrés”, where “des” stands for “de les”. Otherwise, if you consider two squares without any precise knowledge of what they’re expected to be, it will ...
De, de la, du : why Tour de France and not Tour de la France?
Associations EditorsProbably because it is a kind of possessive construction rather than a circuit description. We also have le Tour d’Espagne, le Tour d’Italie. Le Tour is a type of race. There is a recurring problem with country names in French ...
Pourquoi emploie-t-on un article pour le nom d’un pays ?
Associations EditorsBoth Italian and French being romance languages (derived from Latin) and very close cousins, the mechanism of introduction of article is the same. A justification could be that name of a country is derived from the name of people with ...
L’emploi de l’article défini ou non ?
Associations EditorsGénéralement, dire “j’ai les/des maths” sous-entend “j’ai les/des maths à faire“, donc qu’il aurait des devoirs dans cette matière (idem pour les autres matières, du coup). Quand on veut parler de son emploi du temps, on cite la matière sans ...
Entre hommes ou entre les hommes?
Business EditorsNot an option. It depends on what entre is used for. This preposition may be used for 2 distinct meanings a) between two limits or b) to express a relationship (reciprocity or opposition) inside a set. In the first case, ...
The reason for not placing an article « un » or « le » before the noun « exploit »
Business EditorsOn aurait effectivement pu écrire “un exploit qui…”, ce qui se fait le plus couramment, mais dans ce cas-ci “l’exploit qui…” serait incorrect car ce n’est pas un exploit connu (l’article défini accompagne un nom dont le sens est entièrement ...
Why did we use “de” and not “des” in the following sentence ?
Associations EditorsWhen the adjective precedes the noun, then we use de instead of des. In this case, vieilles which is the adjective is before the noun maisons. In the first sentence, there is des,because modernes which is the adjective is after ...