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Why is there no article in the phrase, “assez d’argent”?

You’ve likely already encountered “beaucoup de” or “peu de” used without an article many times. “Assez de” is similar, but unlike the former I don’t think it can ever be used with an article.

“De” is a preposition in these constructs and the partitive (du, de la, and even the indefinite plural des) is always omitted after it. You can think about other cases like:

Il a besoin d’eau.

Il parle de moments difficiles.

Some other examples:

recueillir un maximum d‘informations

une poignée de données non confidentielles

envoyer un grand nombre de photos

As you can see, words that denote a quantity, such as "assez / suffisamment / beaucoup / maximum / poignée", to name but a few, have a noun immediately follow "de" without a definite article in between.

 

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