gabriel

[hallow basalt]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[potent wyvern]

Indefinite and partitive article turn into de when the sentence is turned into a negation.

Être is an exception: C'est de l'eau => ce n'est pas de l'eau.
Also, when you deny that there is one thing but a different number of things, un remains: Je n'ai pas un chien mais deux.

[lunar surge]

It's kinda like how in English we say "I have ** (some) ** sugar" vs "I don't have any sugar"