Question

can you please tell me why we use different pronouns in different sentences:
pourquoi du/ de la / des/ de l'
pourquoi un/ une
et apres j'aime

je mange DE LA salade et une pomme
j'aime LA salade

Answer 1

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Answer 2

if you know french please help me

Answer 3

je mange de la salade et une pomme. Here, you are basically saying SOME (de la) salad, whereas in j'aims la salade, you're saying THE (la) salad. Does that make sense?

Answer 4

yep

Answer 5

how do you know what to use when

Answer 6

lol I dont know french but I have a friend who does. I believe that the reasoning is simply that the sentence structure is different, for example: in japanese I would say watashi wa which means "I"
But if I say watashi no it means "me"
it can specify what you are saying

Answer 7

ok :-l

Answer 8

Just like in English:

WAITER: What do you want to eat?
ME: I would like to eat SOME salad. [Notice you could also say THE salad in this case]

secondly,

ME: I like the salad. [Notice that saying "I like some salad" is grammatically incorrect.]

When you're talking about something that cannot be numbered, such as salad or water or salt, we say de la, or 'some'. When we are talking about something that cannot be numbered as a WHOLE, such as the salt or the salad, we simple say la, or 'the'. Notice we never say 'the water'. In both French and English, we always say some water or d'eau.

Answer 9

you use a different word because you are specifying what you are saying.
If you asked who liked blue I would not say "I" I would say "me"
do you see what I mean

Answer 10

Anything else, @13ziar?

Answer 11

how do I summarise what you told me ^

Answer 12

@asett

Answer 13

The best way to put, that I know of, is the last paragraph in my response, with the exception that it is de l'eau, not d'eau (some water).

Answer 14

is there a certain rule that needs to be followed

Answer 15

Let me look in my textbook. One mo

Answer 16

thanks

Answer 17

Here is what my textbook says:

"Partitives (the du/ de la / des/ de l') are used to say that you want some of an item, whereas indefinite (une, un) and definite (le, la, les) are used to say that you want a whole item or several whole items.

Tu prends de la pizza?
(part of a whole pizza)

Tu prends une pizza?
(the entire pizza)

Answer 18

thanks alot

Answer 19

:)

Answer 20

No problem! Tag me if you need anything else. :)

Answer 21

ok