Why use why use elles vont de Cannes pour le festival du film. I used A and got it wrong
Using DE for a city
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Neil H.Kwiziq community member
Using DE for a city
This question relates to:French lesson "À = To/in and De = From/of with cities in French (French Prepositions of Location)"
Asked 2 years ago
Hi Neil,
The sentence was -
They are going to Cannes for the film festival = Elles vont à Cannes pour le festival du film
aller à = to go to
venir de = to come from
So à is correct.
Hope this helps!
Jim J. Kwiziq Q&A super contributor
Hi Neil,
You would be correct if you had written "à Cannes" but your post suggests that you wrote "a Cannes".
Is this the simple answer to your query because on the face of it you are correct provided you wrote à not a?
Jim
Crush L.Kwiziq community member
Elles vont à Cannes pour le festival du film.
My answer was marked wrong for not choosing "a la". Nothing in this article says why it would be La Cannes. Is that the name of the place and how were we to know there was an article?
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