Je suis blonde avec des cheveux longs et bouclés

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"Je suis blonde avec des cheveux longs et bouclés"

Can someone put me on to a link as to why this uses des, and not les?

To me , des means "some", so literally : "I have some long and curly hair".

I thought you needed to use le/la/les for body parts ?

Thanks, Paul.

Asked 10 months ago

CécileKwiziq Native French TeacherCorrect answer

Bonjour Paul,

We can use both the partitive and the definite articles to describe those kinds of things.

We accept -

Je suis blonde avec des cheveux longs et bouclés

J'ai de longs cheveux blonds et bouclés

J'ai les cheveux blonds, longs et bouclés

Bonne Continuation !

Like410 months ago

"Je suis blonde avec des cheveux longs et bouclés"

Can someone put me on to a link as to why this uses des, and not les?

To me , des means "some", so literally : "I have some long and curly hair".

I thought you needed to use le/la/les for body parts ?

Thanks, Paul.

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