"The horse drinks water, alone."
Translation:Le cheval boit de l'eau, seul.
March 12, 2013
5 Comments
Would it be appropriate to write "d'eau" instead of "l'eau" since there is no "the" in the sentence?
March 12, 2013
No it would not be appropriate.
- il boit l'eau = he drinks THE water (definite)
- il boit de l'eau = he drinks (some) water (partitive)
March 13, 2013
'THe horse drinks water, alone' got translated to 'Le cheval boit l'eau, seul', I thought that in order for 'the' to be omitted in english, in french you had to have 'du' or 'de la'(partitives). Is water a special case?
March 23, 2013
there is a mistake in the program: boit de l'eau = drinks water; boit l'eau = drinks the water.
March 23, 2013
