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Oct 21, 2021 - 06:55 AM
Hi Jesse,
Il y a and Il n'y a pas don't have a plural form, the expression always stays the same:
Il y a une table / Il y a des tables
As for "pas de", it never changes either, to negate a noun in French you always need "pas de" even if the noun is plural, so you say:
Il n'y a pas de fourchettes
Nous n'avons pas de tickets
Elle ne veut pas de frites
and so on.
We explain this in level 1 session 19, and you can take a look at session 18 too if you want to compare it to the use of the partitives "du/de la/des"
Il y a and Il n'y a pas don't have a plural form, the expression always stays the same:
Il y a une table / Il y a des tables
As for "pas de", it never changes either, to negate a noun in French you always need "pas de" even if the noun is plural, so you say:
Il n'y a pas de fourchettes
Nous n'avons pas de tickets
Elle ne veut pas de frites
and so on.
We explain this in level 1 session 19, and you can take a look at session 18 too if you want to compare it to the use of the partitives "du/de la/des"
Oct 22, 2021 - 02:34 AM
Oh yes I very clearly remember this now. I even remember saying that will be easy to remember because the negative never changes from pas de. Oh how quick to forget haha
Thanks for the explanation.
Thanks for the explanation.
