I need help understanding these words and when to use them. Specifically after faire and jouer 😭
#Difference between du, au, and la?
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Essentially it’s about prepositional verbs. Whatever rules you know about the prepositions themselves would apply just the same.
The verb “to play” for things like video games, cards and some sports like badminton, tennis etc would be “jouer à” in French
Je joue aux cartes (where aux = à les)
Je joue au ping-pong (where au = à le)
For playing sports in general and certain sports (where you do them instead of playing them) like swimming, skiing etc you would use “faire + de” in French
Je fais du sport
Je fais du ski
Je fais de la natation
In cases where you’d want to say “I do tennis on weekends”, you can also use “faire + de”
So the confusion with du, de la and au, à la, aux etc would just have to do with knowing which preposition the verb is taking at the moment and what the gender of the noun under discussion is.
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Essentially it’s about prepositional verbs. Whatever rules you know about the pr...
A bit of a note here, but for « faire », that's the partitive article « du, de la », not a preposition like « jouer à qqch »
faire de la natation/du ski = do some swimming/some skiing (literal translation)