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Articles - Coggle Diagram
Articles
definite
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with proper nouns, titles, countries, regions, départements, family names
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after 'de' the def article is normally omitted before fem countries / regions, but not masc ones
les pommes de Normandie, les vins de France
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with languages
nous étudions l'allemand, le français (notice not capitalised)
but parler + language = article omitted, unless adverb like bien / souvent is used
parlez-vous français? oui, je parle français / oui je parle bien le français
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expressions of quantity
le beurre se vend à 5 euros le kilo, les artichauts à deux euros la pièce
vendre les pommes au kilo, acheter le tissu au mètre
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parts of the body
where obvious whose body being indicated, personal pronouns not required, do def article used
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partative
serves to refer to an indefinite quantity of something (i.e. one which has not been measured or counted)
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you can't measure it out one by one, otherwise would be indefinite article
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indefinite
unspecified things, or in the plural an unspecified quantity
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un, une, des (des = plural of un / une, so used very often)
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with definite idea / expression, need to keep article
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after preposition 'de' (with parler de and quantifiers like un bon nombre de) the partitive and indefinite expressions lose their determiners
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