#mr.moderino

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sonic bayBOT
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Please be patient

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sonic rain
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Thank you for all french helpers

orchid thunder
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What else would you suggest putting if you weren’t to put “des”?

sonic rain
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Im not sure why thats incorrect

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Like in English

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You have brothers and sisters?

orchid thunder
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English and French don’t work the same

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So you can’t just translate word-by-word

sonic rain
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Thats whats been hard getting used to the not translate word-by-word 😢

orchid thunder
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Here, in English, there’s a “null” partitive article.

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I have cheese.
I have cake.
I have pasta.

sonic rain
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Yup makes sense so far

orchid thunder
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In French you need to explicitly state the partitive.
J’ai du fromage.
J’ai du gâteau.
J’ai des pâtes.

sonic rain
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Where did du come from. Why not say J'ai des fromage

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I think du is de + la

orchid thunder
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no, du is “de + le” where de is a preposition, but it’s also simply a partitive article

sonic rain
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ahhh thank you 👏

orchid thunder