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Re: Partitive as default?

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Saturday, October 2, 2004, 21:37
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:32:44 +0200, Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:

>- Donne-moi du pain, du vin, de la viande... (give me >some bread, wine, meat...) >- Certains des auditeurs s'étaient endormis (some of >the hearers had fallen asleep)
Oh! *slaps forehead* Good old French "du" and such words. OK, I understood now. "En" is in some constructions a partitive pronoun as well. Carsten