prepositions for places

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prepositions for places

[tidal relic]

hi, first of, this article might help you: https://www.ohlalafrenchcourse.com/en/blog/article/prepositions-of-place-in-french-a-de-dans-sur-chez-et-en

also, "à le" and "au le" do not exist
"au" is the mandatory contraction of à + le
meaning
je vais à + au parc => je vais au parc

-# technically "à le" can exist when "le" is an object pronoun, but not as an article

[jovial bluff]

dans le parc, dans le jardin, i would think

wait till you find out, you can also say "J'habite Paris"

[tidal relic]

well, "dans le parc" and "au parc" both work, but mean different things

[jovial bluff]

les lapins habitent dans le parc, n'est-ce pas?

[tidal relic]

with "au parc" you're conveying the general location of where you are in relation to the entire city, as if you were pointing at a place on a map
with "dans le parc" you're conveying that you are within the enclosure of it

[dreamy forge]

"au" is the mandatory contraction of à + le
Oh wow this wasn't obvious just by looking at it

[tidal relic]

then I'm gonna add some other mandatory contractions
à le => au
à les => aux
de le => du
de les => des

also I want to say, when it comes to prepositions of places: regions/countries are exceptions. They don't work the way all other places do, just be aware of that

[dreamy forge]

I was about to mention chocolate bread 😂 "pain au chocolat" "bread in chocolate?"

[jovial bluff]

for counties, en for feminine au and aux for masculine and plural respectively* with exceptions

[tidal relic]

well prepositions have numerous meanings, it's not as simple
"to" in English has tons of use cases for instance

[jovial bluff]

what is chocolate bread

[dreamy forge]

Merci beaucoup, I think I'll dedicate a bit of time to just prepositions

[dreamy forge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_au_chocolat

[jovial bluff]

in english we call that a chocolate croissant lol

[tidal relic]

indicating a location is like one of 15 meanings for à (don't get scared, prepositions are a hard one)

[jovial bluff]

yes, à and de both also act as prepositions following verbs

not dans however