French · Chapter 2 · Lesson 7 · Grammar primer
Prepositions
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À for cities, en or au for countries
Cities always take à: à Paris, à Madrid, à Tokyo. Countries split by gender: en for feminine ones and any starting with a vowel (en France, en Iran), au for masculine ones (au Japon, au Canada), aux for plurals (aux États-Unis). The same word covers both in and to.
En été, nous partons en vacances en Italie.
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