French language Q&A Forum

Is the distinction the same as in English, where "the coffee" is specific to a particular coffee in the current context? And "coffee" without the article is talking about coffee in general?

So one can say: Il fait que tu aies de la patience and Il fait que tu sois patient - yes? Both are grammatically correct in English? You must have patience / You must be patient. One being a noun the other an adverb.

I tend to get tangled up with possessive "de" but wanted to query why the two capitalised nouns above take de l’ rather than d’? The dog is best friend of "Man" not "a man", and capitalising both nouns implies to me a generalisation or personification: despite that, they don’t seem to be treated as proper nouns in French. 

Peut-on dire aussi "piste"? Quelle est la différence entre les deux?

I answered with the second one, and after much thought, not the first. I asked a french speaking friend and she said the first sounded odd and she would not use it, although she didn't think it was wrong. Can you provide some guidelines?

Thanks

is this the same for all future tenses?

for example jouer - becomes je jouerai so you dont pronounce the e after this i either? 

HI,

I am confused with how this is laid out. 

Are all ER verbs have a silent e in them/? due to the non pronounced e shcwa? 

What makes jouer and crier different from your other examples like manger and parler? 

In very formal spoken french would you be required to speak these e's - for example in poetry?

Why is it faire de l’Akido and not du?

This exercise was way too fast to be B2 as advertised.  Also, there is no way the speaker pronounces "auriz-vous."  She is saying something else.