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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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