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- "We buy coffee from Cameroon."
"We buy coffee from Cameroon."
Translation:Nous achetons du café du Cameroun.
April 22, 2018
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You should read the Tips and Notes from the online version if you can't access them on your platform.
"du" is required with the meaning of "an unknown amount of a mass thing".
"du" is a partitive article used before masculine uncountable nouns starting with a consonant.
Whenever you can add "some" before a mass noun without changing the meaning, you can be sure the French will require a partitive article.
The feminine singular partitive article is "de la".
When the mass noun starts with a vowel sound (vowel or mute H), you will use "de l'"
- nous achetons du café, du vin = we buy (some) coffee, (some) wine.
- nous achetons de la viande, de la bière = we buy (some) meat, (some) beer
- nous achetons de l'alcool (masc.),de l'eau" (fem.) = we buy (some) alcohol, (some) water