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"An elephant is drinking water."
Translation:Un éléphant boit de l'eau.
March 29, 2013
16 Comments
Paul.Morris
569
Boit d'eau is given as an alternative answer to the (correct) boit de l'eau. I've flagged this as an error.
'du' is used with masculine nouns and is a combination of both de and le: de + le = du, de + les = des and if is feminine, la, or l', it is just de - de la and de l'.
For example You would say 'du lait' because milk is masculine - de le lait/ du le lait is wrong. to say 'some food' you say 'de la nourriture' because food is feminine As 'eau' starts with a vowel, you need l' in front of it and de always goes with l' so it is de l'eau.
Hope that makes sense...?
bluebec
606
Why is it d'eau and not l'eau? How would we know that the elephant is drinking general water over specific water?