"Tu bois du lait et manges un sandwich au fromage."

Translation: You drink milk and eat a cheese sandwich.

[radoskan]

cool. i am asked a question when i haven't had "au"...

[TwistedSpoon99]

Why "au" and not "de" (or it's agreeing equivalent) ?

[MindofMykyta]

Somebody more intelligent than me should clarify this, but the idea is that the cheese does not come from the sandwich, if that makes sense.

Example = Jus de pomme, the "juice from apple", as in, the juice was made from (key word) the apple. Another example would be café au lait = coffee with milk. The same idea applies, if you said café du lait, it would mean "coffee from milk" and that doesn't make a lick of sense haha.

Again, if someone can explain better (or correct me), it would be appreciated for all of us =)!

[codewalker_tse]

From your example, you said "coffee with milk", so can we say this =>café avec lait?

[MindofMykyta]

That would be an example of simply translating too literally from English. While I'm sure French speakers would understand what you mean, it is not grammatically correct.

[JTea]

Here try this to understand these french contractions: http://www.frenchspanishonline.com/magazine/?p=597

[codewalker_tse]

Awesome, that's very useful. Thanks.

[kamuba]

Thanks, it helped me a lot!! it explains it perfectly!=)XD

[Lagarini_Daniel]

Cheers mate

[DrewDdmek]

Then what is the need for avec?

[MDL421]

I know, and also the recording sometimes is difficult to understand, even when played slowly.

[Jean-Paul]

I used "you are drinking some milk and eating a cheese sandwich" it said incorrect because it wanted me to use ARE twice, which is redundant in English language i believe.

[KhaledAhme8]

Happened with me too i'll report it

[kristin.somm]

Can someone give some insight on "au" vs. "avec"?

[Connor_Cullen71]

I put "and eating" and got it wrong??

[Hstrange1]

I would have said 'You are drinking milk and eating a cheese sandwich' i.e. without putting a second 'are' in. Any clues why this form is wrong?

[mikegrenside]

The same thing happened to me. I am pretty sure we're correct

[MikeDavies4]

I got marked down for not including a second "are" in the answer, which isn't right. In English, we jist wouldn't repeat that word, it is superfluous.

[stannis08]

Can someone explain to me what is up with this : "You drink milk and eat 1 sandwich with cheese"?
Why does it translates "un" as a number 1? Is this a bug in a program or does it really mean that because if it does - than how can I tell when "un" is 1 and when is it just "a" or "an" before a word???

[La_Mariette]

It's a bug. Difficult to fix, apparently.

[Harmo2020]

It should be you are eating

[MacV]

I like that the french, in a literal translation, ask for, "a sandwich to the cheese." Fly as hell.

[lpacker]

But "au" means "with" in this sentence.

[teplee]

Is it okay to say "avec du fromage"? I remember that Mr Krabs told to Sponge Bob: "Avec fromage, avec fromage!"
I thought that he has missed "du", but who knows!

[maholtx]

I think a key is understand that with prepositions
you can NOT do a word-for-word translation

[Betsy398245]

With the new format, the words I type scroll up so that I can't see them. Please fix.

[Qiset1]

Are "tu" and "du" supposed to sound the same?

[fflikeroses]

you are drinking milk and are eating a cheese sandwich

is the present continuous not correct??