Re: Russian "a" and Norwegian "ikke/ingen" (was: Re: Question about Latin.)
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 20, 2004, 15:03 |
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Hi!
"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Philippe Caquant wrote:
> > We say "Je n'ai pas de voiture", "je n'ai pas
> > d'enfants" (interesting, normally 'voiture' singular,
> > but 'enfants' plural).
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> Hm . If |enfants| is plural, why isn't it preceded by |des| instead of |d'| ?
After 'je n'ai pas/plus/rien de..', there is never an article in
French, but just plain 'de'. Thus:
a) Je voudrais du cafe / de la biere / des croissants.
b) Je ne voudrais pas de cafe / de biere / de croissants.
**Henrik
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