French language Q&A Forum

Are there any other times apart from the negative (saying you don’t have any), when de is used eg d’huile, de pan. I know we say de also before plural nouns with an adjectives preceding the noun 

In one of the previous lesson it was taught that we can use "par" with planes, here I use par but it was market incorrectly. 

Why can’t it be “tu as l’odeur du pain” ?

Unfortunately, my attempts at working my way through this exercise meant that I was trying to walk before I could crawl. I wrote it out carefully, leaving spaces between the French lines, with the aim of filling these with what I thought would be a fairly accurate sound of what I was listening to; so at the beginning "Au cœur du Massif des Maures, c'est autour de ce monastère que les religieux ont planté les premiers châtaigniers au XIIe siècle" would have above each word " oh cur dew mahseef da mawrs, say  ohtour da suh monahstair releezhee-eur awn plontay lay prermeeai  chattenya see-ecla".                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

I would welcome any comments on the above, and meanwhile I think I'll keep to the AI listening practice exercises.

Clive M