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sharp boltBOT Apr 21, 2025, 5:24 AM

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round raven Apr 21, 2025, 5:24 AM

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"je viens de manger de la soupe"

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https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/partitive-article/

Lawless French

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Du, de la, de l', des - French Partitive Articles - Lawless French ...

The partitive article refers to an unspecified quantity of food, liquid, or some other uncountable noun.

lament coral Apr 21, 2025, 5:25 AM

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please don't use translators to check grammar, that is not their purpose
they're made to try and understand people, and make it clear in another language. They don't care whether the base sentence was right or not

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what was the sentence you wanted to say in English? Right now it's unclear

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it's always best to give the original meaning when checking for translations because you can end up with a correct sentence meaning something differnet

amber brook Apr 21, 2025, 5:27 AM

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lament coral what was the sentence you wanted to say in English? Right now it's unclear

the sentence was "i just ate soup"

round raven Apr 21, 2025, 5:28 AM

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yeah, de la soupe vs la soupe have two different meanings, while just soupe alone is ungrammatical, but all of this is unclear when you're taking cues from a translator

amber brook Apr 21, 2025, 5:28 AM

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round raven https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/partitive-article/

tyyy blobheart was rlly helpful

lament coral Apr 21, 2025, 5:30 AM

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amber brook the sentence was "i just ate soup"

In that case fquel's sentence is good
the way "just [verb]" gets translated in French is using recent past, which is probably what you tried.
you have to use "venir de [infinitive]" while conjugating venir in present tense. The infinitive should be "manger" and venir in present tense is "viens", but also don't forget the preposition "de" between the two
As for "de la soupe" refer to the link fquel sent

round raven Apr 21, 2025, 5:31 AM

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didn't even consider "je viens manger (de) la soupe", because we don't even really phrase it like that in english and it's odd alone

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but another good reason to not make your primary source of french translations from english

amber brook Apr 21, 2025, 5:35 AM

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round raven but another good reason to not make your primary source of french translations f...

yea😭 i just don't know where else to find information tbh

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ty bothh :)

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blobheart

lament coral Apr 21, 2025, 5:36 AM

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using translations is fine in the beginning
but be aware of your biases and don't use translators for checking grammar

round raven Apr 21, 2025, 5:45 AM

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amber brook yea😭 i just don't know where else to find information tbh

there's a whole internet filled with stuff in french

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don't be discouraged from exploring it, becuase you don't understand everything or even much

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that's how you learn a language

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also on reverso context you can search examples in a database

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and use a dictionary/look up grammar

#Angie