mr.moderino

[novel cliff]

Please be patient

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[cold saffron]

Edit: Same with ''Le chat d'Alice'' the sentence is throwing me off it means ''Alice's cat''

[willow pilot]

« Le père d'Elsa » can be literally translated to "the father of Elsa"
however, in English, we have the possessive « 's », so it's used conventionally to translate that

same thing for « le chat d'Alice »

literally, it means "the cat of Alice"

[cold saffron]

Ahh so instead of Elsa's they say D'Elsa

in this case ''Le chat d'alice''

[willow pilot]

yes

the preposition « de » indicates possession in French

[cold saffron]

Yeah I've noticed in french theres alot of words that are literally translated one way but we change them to make sense

[willow pilot]

yeah

also, the preposition « à » can be used to indicate possession

however, it is mainly used to put emphasis on the owner

[cold saffron]

ahhhhh

de in that case means 's correct?

[willow pilot]

you can see how « à moi », which literally means "to me", was translated to "mine"

[cold saffron]

de usually means of i think but also '' ('s)

[willow pilot]

the preposition « de » means "of"

but i guess you can think of it that way too