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Marty C.A0KwizIQ community member

Whether to include the definite article "le" when asking for someone's preferenceIn French, what is the difference between "Tu préfères le café ?" and "Tu préfères café ?" when asking for someone's preference for coffee?

Is the distinction the same as in English, where "the coffee" is specific to a particular coffee in the current context? And "coffee" without the article is talking about coffee in general?

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Jacqueline V.C1KwizIQ community member

To have patience/to be patient

So one can say: Il fait que tu aies de la patience and Il fait que tu sois patient - yes? Both are grammatically correct in English? You must have patience / You must be patient. One being a noun the other an adverb.

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Alexis S.B1KwizIQ community member

translation questionJ'ai vu Sharon Stone descendre d'une limousine.I saw Sharon Stone get out of a limo.
Why the infinitive? How does this work?

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Anne D.C1KwizIQ Q&A super contributor

Le meilleur ami de l’Homme / les astronomes de l’Antiquity

I tend to get tangled up with possessive "de" but wanted to query why the two capitalised nouns above take de l’ rather than d’? The dog is best friend of "Man" not "a man", and capitalising both nouns implies to me a generalisation or personification: despite that, they don’t seem to be treated as proper nouns in French.

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Andrea W.B1KwizIQ community member

Une piste aussi?

Peut-on dire aussi "piste"? Quelle est la différence entre les deux?

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Patrick K.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

C'est la plus rapide voiture du monde. Is this correct?It is the fastest car in the world.
C'est la plus rapide voiture du monde.
C'est la voiture la plus rapide du monde.

I answered with the second one, and after much thought, not the first. I asked a french speaking friend and she said the first sounded odd and she would not use it, although she didn't think it was wrong. Can you provide some guidelines?

Thanks

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clara g.B2KwizIQ community member

You don't pronounce the e after the i.

is this the same for all future tenses?

for example jouer - becomes je jouerai so you dont pronounce the e after this i either?

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clara g.B2KwizIQ community member

why is e silent in verbs like jouer or crier but not the rest?

HI,