Les articles

Hi!

Respected members!

I have been doing some exercises online: Les articles

Where the correct answers according to the website are:

1. J'ai acheté du lait, un livre et des nouvelles chaussures.
5. les touristes préfèrent visiter les musées et les monuments.
6. Les Japonais ne parlent pas français.
8. Tu as vu les photos de Marie ?

My questions:

1. I have been taught when the plural form of the adjective precedes the subject, we have to use the reduced form of the partitif form. But here the complete form is used?

5. Why can't we use "des" here before touristes, a new entity is being introduced?

6. Same as question 5.

8. Same as question 5.

Thanks in advance!

A.F.

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Permalink Reply by Charles D on December 1, 2014 at 5:54am

1. I bought some milk, a book, and some new shoes.

5. The tourists prefer to visit the museums and the monuments.

6. The Japanese don't speak French.

8. You saw Mary's photos? (or the photos of Mary)

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Permalink Reply by marrkhapptu on December 1, 2014 at 10:16am

Thanks!

I think I see what u mean. If I can more or less replace le determinant with the eng. "the", then I have to use Le/la/les. But if I can repalce it With "some", I have to use determinant indefini?

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EducatorPermalink Reply by George Hunt on December 1, 2014 at 2:05pm

That is how I look at it-as a general "rule of thumb" .

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Permalink Reply by karenM on December 17, 2014 at 11:37am

For question 5, 6 and 8, if your replace Les touriste by Des tourists, it's not the same sense => Les touristes mean all the tourists (global), Des tourists means some tourists, a few tourists