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why the singular pouce here and not the plural pouces, as they each have a thumb/pouce and not a mutual thumb, which they all would be sucking?
Pekka from Helsinki
We are asked to translate ‘Sprinkle with salt and pepper’.
The two possible answers that are given are:
1, Saupoudrez avec du sel et du poivre
2. Saupoudrez de sel et de poivre
I understand why du is correct as as it is used with ‘uncountable’ nouns which in this case are sel and poivre.
Could you please explain why de sel and de poivre are also correct.
Is 'un pique-nique' really a packed lunch in French and not a picnic? Could you say "J'ai pris un pique-nique au travail" and it means some food that you took from home and ate at work? I always assumed 'un pique-nique' was really the same as in English, taking food from home to sit and eat outside somewhere in the sun.
Another problem I have here is with the explanations in the lesson. It says that when talking about SOMETHING SPECIFIC, you should use elle/il. But then there's this example: Qui est Sylvie ? - C'est ma sœur.
I would think that here we are talking about a very specific Sylvie, and not just some Sylvie. Then why do we say c'est instead of elle?
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