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There are three partitive articles in French.
Masculine: du
Feminine: de la
Masculine/feminine (before vowel): de l'
Uses: Partitive articles are used both in English and in French to talk about quantities that cannot be counted. English often uses “some.”
Uses: Partitive articles are used both in English and in French to talk about quantities that cannot be counted. English often uses “some.”
While the indefinite article (un, une, des) is used with countable quantities (un oeuf, deux oeufs ...), the partitive article is used before mass nouns, nouns that are indivisible or uncountable. Note: In English the article 'some' is often omitted
While the indefinite article (un, une, des) is used with countable quantities (un oeuf, deux oeufs ...), the partitive article is used before mass nouns, nouns that are indivisible or uncountable. Note: In English the article 'some' is often omitted
The partitive article designates a part of the whole. Note that depending on what you want to say, the same noun may be introduced by a definite, indefinite, or a partitive article. Compare these examples: some are about a whole thing, some about a part of something:
after the negative
after the negative
In negative sentences, du, de la, des, de l' change to de: it doesn’t matter if it’s singular or plural.
Notice the use of the partitive articles in the following dialogue:
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