"by punching a wall" - how does this translate to the above and why? the phrase is "donner un coup de poing" so why is it "un" replaced with "des" here? and why is "dans le mur" when it says "punching A wall"?
en donnant des coups de poing dans le mur
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Donner des coups de poing dans le mur. -- To punch the wall. (lit.: to give the wall some punches.)
From this you see that des coups is the partitive.
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