Master how to ask if a store has something in stock with the key pattern
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| Let’s look at some more examples. |
| Listen and repeat or speak along with the native speakers. |
| Sasha Lee: Avez-vous du sel ? |
| Sasha Lee: Avez-vous du sel ? |
| Mark Lee: Avez-vous du lait ? |
| Mark Lee: Avez-vous du lait ? |
| Paul Petit: Avez-vous du sucre ? |
| Paul Petit: Avez-vous du sucre ? |
| Pauline Petit: Avez-vous de la confiture ? |
| Pauline Petit: Avez-vous de la confiture ? |
| Lya Mercier: Avez-vous des pommes ? |
| Lya Mercier: Avez-vous des pommes ? |
| Did you notice how the pattern changed? |
| Lya Mercier: Avez-vous des pommes ? |
| "Do you have any apples?" |
| Lya Mercier: Avez-vous des pommes ? |
| Let’s start with pommes, "apples." Pommes (enunciated). Pommes. |
| Instead of a singular, the plural is used, because the word for "apple" is countable in French. |
| In French, all nouns have grammatical gender and are either singular or plural. Pommes is masculine and plural — a fact which will determine the form of other words in the sentence. |
| Before pommes is the article des. |
| Des is masculine and plural to agree with pommes. |
| All together, Avez-vous des pommes ? |
| "Do you have any apples?" |
| Avez-vous des pommes ? |
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