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1) le 2) la 3) l' 4) les 5) du 6) de 7) des

2007-03-28 09:53:04 · 2 answers · asked by lkolka 3 in Society & Culture Languages

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The first three would translate as "the", they are the definite articles in the singular 1) male "2) female 3) either, if the following noun starts with a vowel. 4) is the definite article for both genders in the pural, so "the" again, and 7) is the indefinite article for the plural, where English has none. "there are trees"="il y a des arbres"
5), 6), which actually should be "de la" in this context, and 7) are also equivalents of the genitive case in English "the king's horses" = "les chevaux du roi" - male, "the woman's hair" = "les cheveux de la femme" - female, "the love of men"= "l'amour des hommes" - plural, both genders
6) "de" on its own, or in the forms 5) and 6) also can translate as "from" as in "je viens de Lyon" - "I come from Lyon"

2007-03-28 12:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

1, 2, 3 and 4 all mean "the", i.e. the definite article.
"du" and "des" usually translates "some", but can also be translated as "of the" an often is not translated at all, representing the indefinite article.

2007-03-28 17:08:27 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0 0

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