French language Q&A Forum

What is the difference in usage with cependant, alors que, pourtant, et en revanche? 

Bonjour,

Is there a lesson about uncountable nouns in french?

Partitive articles use with uncountable nouns, but it seems that not all the uncountable nouns in French are singular.

Such as the examples above, des animaux, des pommes. 

Can I say "J'ai de l'animal" instead of "J'ai des animaux", do they mean the same thing?

Merci bien.

This is how clueless I am.  At reading the sentence about the missing ring I wondered at first;  "Did he steal a ring from her?"  It took this 61 year-old a minute to grasp that he took the ring in order to get her ring-size!  (I must admit, I would never have thought of that!)  Gary 

Hi, one of the examples includes “ passez l’aspirateur”. Presumably this means to use the aspirateur to clean. In English we would not use the direct translation using “pass”. Most often someone would say “do the hoovering”, or possibly “use the hoover” or “use the vacuum cleaner”. I may he wrong, maybe the sentence just means “pass me the hoover (as you are holding it)” but then the example makes less sense. Does passer l’aspirateur mean to use a vacuum cleaner?

Hi,

Thanks!

Ryan