Kilo Lingo

French · Chapter 2 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer

Partitives and de

Prescribed by the AQA specification.

The short version

Quantity words take bare de

After any expression of quantity the article vanishes and de stands alone: beaucoup de pain, un kilo de pommes, un verre d'eau, trop de travail. Beaucoup du pain is wrong. The one holdout is la plupart, which keeps the article: la plupart des étudiants, la plupart du temps.

Elle boit beaucoup d'eau.

She drinks a lot of water.

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