Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

What is the capital of Tunisia?

Please type your username.

Please type your E-Mail.

Please choose the appropriate section so the question can be searched easily.

Please choose suitable Keywords Ex: question, poll.

Type the description thoroughly and in details.

What is the capital of Tunisia?

Why the definitive article instead of the preposition (and vice versa) in these sentences?

With expressions of clock time, use the preposition à to say (at) what time. You can leave out the "at" in English, but not the à in French. It answers the question « À quelle heure … ? »

À quelle heure ?
À midi.
Demain on a rendez-vous à 13h30.
On va dîner à
19h00.

Je me lève toujours à cinq heures.

For expressions of repeated days or times like le matin, le soir, or days of the week like le lundi, le mardi, le shows that it is a usual, repeated event.

Le matin je me lève tôt.
Le mercredi, on mange le déjeuner chez nous.
Je ne travaille pas le samedi. Le samedi, le magasin est fermé.

Every morning, on Wednesdays, on Saturdays in general. « Fermé le jeudi » follows this pattern.

To specify next Thursday, but not every Thursday, use « jeudi prochain. » It also means not this Thursday, but Thursday next. That works with names for days of the week (not necessarily dates).

On voulait partir en vacances samedi prochain.

Lundi prochain c’est un jour férié.

but

L’année prochaine on va voyager.

Qu’est-ce qu’on va faire la semaine prochaine ?

Related question

 

Leave a comment

What is the capital of Tunisia?