dvevanx

[uneven wing]

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[latent garden]

I believe that it doesn't take the partitive in this instance because breakfast is being expressed as a general concept rather than a quantity that the "tu" in the sentence is being offered. That's my guess anyway

[fringe halo]

I’m a bit confused still cause articles rlly confuse me

[latent garden]

So in a lot of cases you want articles before nouns, like in "J'aime le poulet" or something like that, but as soon as a thing is definitively happening to a specific quantity of a noun, you add "de" to the article which forms the partitive

there isn't much of an english equivalent but think of it as "some"

so the duolingo man is saying "Do you want to have breakfast"

I do not entirely know myself why it doesn't use the partitive, my guess is that it just doesn't have that meaning in mind (I dislike duolingo in general for this reason, it does not tell you anything about why you got something wrong or grammatical principles in general), but with most consumption verbs like prendre, manger, boire etc. you would almost always add "de" to the article

[latent garden]

so what I'd think here is that breakfast is just considered a bit different in French than in English, it's moreso a general concept than something you can have a quantity of

or maybe duolingo is tripping or maybe I'm dumb, both of those things are known to happen

[civic tide]

Actually you're kinda right, « pétit-déjeuner » as well as other sort of daily foods, be it regional or otherwise, take the definite article because it's assumed that there's like a specific set of foods set for breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc