Going shopping
Shopping vocabulary, and a real French subtlety: the partitive articles "du", "de la", "des".
Shopping vocabulary, and a real French subtlety: the partitive articles "du", "de la", "des".
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Vocabulary for this lesson
- le magasin : shop, store
- le prix : price
- pas cher / bon marché : cheap
- cher : expensive
- j'achète : I buy
- l'argent : money
- du pain : some bread
- de la confiture : some jam
🇫🇷 A bit of French culture
French uses the partitive article (du, de la, des) to indicate an unspecified quantity: "Je veux du pain" (some bread, an unspecified amount) differs from "Je veux le pain" (THE specific bread being discussed). Rule: du + masculine noun, de la + feminine noun, de l' + noun starting with a vowel, des + plural. In the negative form, everything becomes "de": "Je ne veux pas de pain".
