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Vocabulary
Objective: Name food items across the main categories, apply quantity expressions with de, and use food vocabulary in shopping and cooking contexts.
| French | English | Category |
|---|---|---|
| le pain | bread | féculents |
| la baguette | baguette | féculents |
| le riz | rice | féculents |
| les pâtes | pasta | féculents |
| le poulet | chicken | viandes |
| le bœuf | beef | viandes |
| le poisson | fish | viandes |
| la tomate | tomato | légumes |
| la carotte | carrot | légumes |
| la pomme |
After a quantity expression such as un kilo, une tranche, or beaucoup, the preposition de appears alone, with no article.
Viande is a mass noun, so it takes the singular partitive de la even when the sentence refers to more than one portion.
Generic reference to bread uses the partitive du. The feminine noun boulangerie is preceded by à la.
Viande is a mass noun and takes the singular partitive de la. Légumes is plural countable and takes des.
The quantity expression un kilo de uses de alone. The noun pommes is plural.
The feminine noun bouteille takes the indefinite article une. The preposition de elides to d' before the vowel-initial eau.
Une tranche de is a container expression. The quantity word supplies the amount, so de appears alone.
6 exercises · about 9 minutes
| fruits |
| le fromage | cheese | produits laitiers |
| le beurre | butter | produits laitiers |
| le yaourt | yogurt | produits laitiers |
| les œufs | eggs | autres |
Baguette is feminine, so the indefinite article is une. The masculine un would not match the noun's gender.
Plural countable nouns take the partitive des when no quantity expression precedes them. The form de alone appears only after a quantity word.
Œufs is plural countable and takes des. Beurre is masculine mass and takes du.
The plural noun fromages takes the partitive des. The phrase de toute la France means from all over France, indicating the cheeses come from many regions.
Generic preference uses the definite article le or la, not a partitive. The partitive would describe a portion, not a category.