faire du bruit versus faire de bruit

Question

When I listened to this I heard faire de bruit and wrote that. However, I then double-checked the hints/vocabulary look-up which listed faire du bruit. So I changed it, and of course that was wrong. What version is more commonly used in French?

Maarten Kamp · Answer

Justin,

the general expression is faire du bruit ( make some noise ), but in the dictation the expression is quantified further with ‘ trop de ‘ as in ‘faisaient trop de bruit ‘. Just as in English we would say ‘ they make too much noise ‘ but wouldn’t say they ‘ make too much of some noise ‘.

See link for ‘ trop de ‘

https://www.wordreference.com/fren/trop%20de